Tropical snowline depression at the Last Glacial Maximum: Comparison with proxy records using a single-cell tropical climate model

Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres

Volumn 107, Issue 7-8, 2002, Pages

  Greene, Arthur M ^a   Seager, Richard ^a   Broecker, Wallace S ^a  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Boundary layer processes; Climatology; Glaciology; Paleoclimatology; Snow and ice; Tropical meteorology

Indexed keywords

LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; PALEOCLIMATE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; SNOWLINE; TROPICAL METEOROLOGY;

EID: 0037181936     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001jd000670     Document Type: Article

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