A coupled climate-ice sheet modeling approach to the Early Cenozoic history of the Antarctic ice sheet

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 198, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 39-52

  DeConto, Robert M ^a   Pollard, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Antarctica; Drake Passage; Ice sheets; Oligocene; Paleoclimate

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE-ICE-OCEAN SYSTEM; CENOZOIC; EOCENE-OLIGOCENE BOUNDARY; GLACIATION; ICE SHEET; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOGEOGRAPHY;

ANTARCTICA; DRAKE PASSAGE; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 0141857670     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-0182(03)00393-6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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