Tropical cooling at the last glacial maximum: An atmosphere-mixed layer ocean model simulation

Journal of Climate

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 951-976

  Broccoli, Anthony J ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CARBON DIOXIDE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY; TROPICS;

LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM (LGM); TROPICAL COOLING;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; CLIMATE MODELING; COOLING; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; PALEOCLIMATE;

EID: 0033949153     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(2000)013<0951:TCATLG>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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