Can increased poleward oceanic heat flux explain the warm Cretaceous climate?

Paleoceanography

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 579-593

  Schmidt, Gavin A ^a   Mysak, Lawrence A ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CRETACEOUS; HEAT FLUX; MODEL; PALAEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALAEOCLIMATE; POLEWARD TRANSPORT;

EID: 0030515281     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96PA01851     Document Type: Article

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