A model-data comparison of European temperatures in the Eemian interglacial

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1-5

  Kaspar, Frank ^a,b   Kühl, Norbert ^c   Cubasch, Ulrich ^b   Litt, Thomas ^c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GLACIERS; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

GLOBAL CLIMATE SIMULATION; INTERGLACIAL; MACROFOSSILS; PALEOBOTANICAL;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

CLIMATE MODELING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EEMIAN; PALEOCLIMATE; SEASONALITY;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; WORLD;

EID: 23844527447     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL022456     Document Type: Article

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