An introduction to 'late Quaternary climates: Data syntheses and model experiments'

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 17, Issue 6-7, 1998, Pages 465-471

  Webb III, Thompson ^a   Kutzbach, John E ^b  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA PROCESSING; MODEL; PALEOCLIMATE; QUATERNARY;

EID: 0031903427     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-3791(98)00008-0     Document Type: Article

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