Surface temperature in NW Europe during the Younger Dryas: AGCM simulation compared with temperature reconstructions

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 33-44

  Renssen, H ^a   Isarin, R F B ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC GCM; PALAEOCLIMATE; TEMPERATURE; YOUNGER DRYAS;

EUROPE, (NORTHWEST);

EID: 0031972243     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003820050206     Document Type: Article

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