The maintenance of the last great ice sheets: A UGAMP GCM study

Journal of Climate

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1004-1019

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; GCM; GLACIAL/INTERGLACIAL CLIMATE; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; ORBITAL PARAMETERS; SEA ICE; UGAMP;

EID: 0030427032     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(1996)009<1004:TMOTLG>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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