Impacts of snow and glaciers over Tibetan Plateau on Holocene climate change: Sensitivity experiments with a coupled model of intermediate complexity

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 17, 2005, Pages 1-4

  Jin, Liya ^a   Ganopolski, Andrey ^b   Chen, Fahu ^a   Claussen, Martin ^b   Wang, Huijun ^c  

^a LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GLACIERS; ICE PROBLEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); SNOW; VEGETATION;

HOLOCENE CLIMATE VARIABILITY; SUMMER PRECIPITATION; TIBETAN PLATEAU; VEGETATION COVER;

CLIMATOLOGY;

CLIMATE CHANGE; GLACIER; HOLOCENE; PALEOCLIMATE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SNOW COVER;

ASIA; CHINA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; FAR EAST; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; WORLD;

EID: 27544448700     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL023202     Document Type: Article

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