Application of a polythermal three-dimensional ice sheet model to the Greenland Ice Sheet: Response to steady-state and transient climate scenarios

Journal of Climate

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 901-918

  Greve, Ralf ^a  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ICE SHEET; MILANKOVIC PERIOD FORCING; MODEL; PALAEOCLIMATE FORCING;

GREENLAND, GREENLAND ICE SHEET;

EID: 0031409505     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(1997)010<0901:AOAPTD>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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