The timing of Pleistocene glaciations from a simple multiple-state climate model

Nature

Volumn 391, Issue 6665, 1998, Pages 378-381

  Paillard, Didier ^a  

^a DIF   (France)

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Indexed keywords

ICE;

ASTRONOMICAL THEORY; CHRONOLOGY; GLACIAL/INTERGLACIAL; PALAEOCLIMATE MODEL; PLEISTOCENE;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; COLD CLIMATE; GEOLOGY; MODEL; OCEANIC REGIONS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THEORY;

EID: 0032556904     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/34891     Document Type: Article

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