Climate and ice-sheet mass balance at the last glacial maximum from the genesis version 2 global climate model

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 841-863

  Pollard, David ^a   Thompson, Starley L ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GCM; ICE SHEET; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; MASS BALANCE; PALAEOCLIMATE; VERSION 2;

EID: 0031460425     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-3791(96)00115-1     Document Type: Article

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