Atmospheric equilibrium, instability and energy transport at the last glacial maximum

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 497-511

  Hall, Nicholas M J ^a,b   Dong, Buwen ^a   Valdes, Paul J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC INSTABILITY; EDDY DYNAMICS; GCM; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM;

EID: 0030357912     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02346821     Document Type: Article

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