Climates at the last glacial maximum: Influence of model horizontal resolution

Journal of Climate

Volumn 13, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 1554-1573

  Dong, Buwen ^a   Valdes, Paul J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE QUALITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STORMS;

GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL (GCM); LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM (LGM);

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; PALEOCLIMATE;

EID: 0034099670     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(2000)013<1554:CATLGM>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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