Climate and environment of the subtropical and tropical Americas (NH) in the mid-Holocene: Comparison of observations with climate model simulations

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 23, Issue 5-6, 2004, Pages 663-679

  Ruter, Anthony ^a   Arzt, Jennifer ^a   Vavrus, Steven ^a   Bryson, Reid A ^a   Kutzbach, John E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA REDUCTION; DRYING; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT;

CLIMATE MODELS; HOLOCENE;

CLIMATOLOGY;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; HOLOCENE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; SPATIAL VARIATION; SUBTROPICAL REGION; TROPICAL REGION;

CENTRAL AMERICA; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; YUCATAN PENINSULA;

EID: 1242299752     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2003.09.006     Document Type: Article

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