Large-scale instabilities of the Laurentide ice sheet simulated in a fully coupled climate-system model

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 24, 2002, Pages

  Calov, Reinhard ^a   Ganopolski, Andrey ^a   Petoukhov, Vladimir ^a   Claussen, Martin ^a   Greve, Ralf ^b  

^a POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; GLACIERS; SEA LEVEL;

ABRUPT CLIMATE CHANGE; ICE SHEET MODELS; INTERNAL OSCILLATION; LARGE-SCALE INSTABILITY; LAURENTIDE ICE SHEETS; OCEAN BIOSPHERE; PALEOCLIMATE RECORDS; SIMULATED EVENTS;

ICE;

EID: 0038404797     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002GL016078     Document Type: Article

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