Last Glacial Maximum over China: Sensitivities of climate to paleovegetation and Tibetan ice sheet

Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres

Volumn 108, Issue 3, 2003, Pages

  Jiang, Dabang ^a   Wang, Huijun ^a   Drange, Helge ^b   Lang, Xianmei ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b NANSEN ENVIRONMENTAL AND REMOTE SENSING CENTER   (Norway)

Author keywords

Climate; Last Glacial Maximum; Paleovegetation; Tibetan ice sheet

Indexed keywords

ICE SHEET; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; PALEOCLIMATE; VEGETATION;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

EID: 1642538419     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002jd002167     Document Type: Article

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