Testing the influence of the Central American Seaway on orbitally forced Northern Hemisphere glaciation

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 1-4

  Klocker, A ^a   Prange, M ^a   Schulz, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; HIGH TEMPERATURE EFFECTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SNOW;

CLIMATE MODELS; GLACIATION; PLIOCENE CLOSURE; SEAWAYS;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

GLACIATION; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; QUATERNARY;

EID: 17744373669     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL021564     Document Type: Article

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