Sensitivity of the Northern Hemisphere climate system to extreme changes in Holocene Arctic sea ice

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 22, Issue 5-7, 2003, Pages 645-658

  Smith, L Micaela ^a,d   Miller, Gifford H ^a   Otto Bliesner, Bette ^b   Shin, Sang Ik ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^d BP AMERICA INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLACIERS; MOISTURE; SEA ICE;

PERENNIAL SEA ICE;

CLIMATOLOGY;

HOLOCENE; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; SEA ICE; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0037340856     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-3791(02)00166-X     Document Type: Article

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