Global scale palaeoclimate reconstruction of the middle Pliocene climate using the UKMO GCM: Initial results

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 25, Issue 3-4, 2000, Pages 239-256

  Haywood, Alan M ^a   Valdes, Paul J ^a   Sellwood, Bruce W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

General circulation model; Middle Pliocene

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELING; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; GLOBAL WARMING; PALEOCLIMATE; PLIOCENE; RECONSTRUCTION;

EID: 0033916311     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0921-8181(00)00028-X     Document Type: Article

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