Modelling the climate response to orbital forcing

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 357, Issue 1757, 1999, Pages 1873-1890

  Valdes, Paul J ^a   Glover, Robin W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate modelling; Jurassic climates; Milankovitch; Orbital forcing; Palaeoclimate

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347599328     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.1999.0405     Document Type: Article

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