The greening of the McGill Paleoclimate Model. Part II: Simulation of Holocene millennial-scale natural climate changes

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 481-496

  Wang, Yi ^a   Mysak, Lawrence A ^a   Wang, Zhaomin ^a   Brovkin, Victor ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELING; HOLOCENE; ORBITAL FORCING; PALEOCLIMATE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD;

EID: 17544373877     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-004-0516-8     Document Type: Article

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