South American palaeoclimate model simulations: How reliable are the models?

Journal of Quaternary Science

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 357-368

  Valdes, Paul J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

CLIMAP; COHMAP; GCM predictions; Holocene; Last Glacial Maximum; PMIP experiments; UGAMP

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELING; MODEL VALIDATION; PALEOCLIMATE; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS;

SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 0033937414     PISSN: 02678179     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1099-1417(200005)15:4<357::AID-JQS547>3.0.CO;2-8     Document Type: Article

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