Tropical Pacific climate at the mid-Holocene and the Last Glacial Maximum simulated by a coupled ocean-atmosphere general circulation model

Paleoceanography

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 19-1-19-13

  Kitoh, Akio ^a   Murakami, Shigenori ^a  

^a METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

General circulation; Paleoceanography; Paleoclimatology; Tropical meteorology

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HOLOCENE; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; QUATERNARY;

EID: 0036765183     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001PA000724     Document Type: Article

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