Impact of the North American ice-sheet orography on the Last Glacial Maximum eddies and snowfall

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 1515-1518

  Kageyama, Masa ^a   Valdes, Paul J ^b  

^a LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ICE SHEET; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; OROGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE;

NORTH AMERICA;

CLIMATE MODELS; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GLACIERS; ICE CONTROL; METEOROLOGY; SNOW;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; BAROCLINICITY; CLIMATE SIMULATION; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; NORTH AMERICAN; NORTH ATLANTIC; STATIONARY WAVES;

ICE;

EID: 0034525803     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL011274     Document Type: Article

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