Paleoclimatic response of the closing of the Isthmus of Panama in a coupled ocean-atmosphere model

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 253-256

  Murdock, Trevor Q ^a   Weaver, Andrew J ^a   Fanning, Augustus F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; UNDERWATER HEAT TRANSFER; CLIMATE MODELS; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; HEAT TRANSFER;

ATMOSPHERE OCEAN MODEL; GLACIAL CYCLES; OCEANIC HEAT TRANSPORT; PALEOCLIMATIC EFFECTS; PLANETARY HEAT TRANSPORT;

CLIMATE CHANGE; OCEANOGRAPHY;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; GLACIATION; HEAT TRANSPORT; MODEL; OCEAN/ATMOSPHERE MODEL; PALAEOCLIMATE; PLIOCENE;

PANAMA, PANAMA ISTHMUS;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN MODELING; DEEP-WATER FORMATION; GLACIAL CYCLES; HEAT TRANSPORT; MODELLING STUDIES; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE MODELS; SOUTH ATLANTIC;

EID: 0031079242     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96GL03950     Document Type: Article

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