Past and future reorganizations in the climate system

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 19, Issue 1-5, 2000, Pages 301-319

  Stocker, Thomas F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE FORCING; OCEANIC CIRCULATION;

EID: 0033985536     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-3791(99)00067-0     Document Type: Conference Paper

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