Rapid switch-like sea ice growth and land ice-sea ice hysteresis

Paleoceanography

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2004, Pages

  Sayag, Roiy ^a,b   Tziperman, Eli ^a,b   Ghil, Michael ^c,d  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Glacial cycles; Hysteresis; Sea ice

Indexed keywords

GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; HYSTERESIS; ICE COVER; LAND-SEA INTERACTION; SEA ICE;

EID: 18344416283     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003pa000946     Document Type: Article

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