Holocene climate evolution in the high-latitude Southern Hemisphere simulated by a coupled atmosphere-sea ice-ocean-vegetation model

Holocene

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 951-964

  Renssen, Hans ^a   Goosse, Hugues ^b   Fichefet, Thierry ^b   Masson Delmotte, Valérie ^c   Koç, Nalan ^d  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^c INSTITUT PIERRE SIMON LAPLACE   (France)

^d NORWEGIAN POLAR INSTITUTE   (Norway)

Author keywords

Antarctica; Climate change; Climate model simulation; Coupled model; Holocene; Orbital forcing; Southern Hemisphere; Southern Ocean; Teleconnections

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELING; HOLOCENE; ORBITAL FORCING; PALEOCLIMATE; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; TELECONNECTION;

EID: 27644444656     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/0959683605hl869ra     Document Type: Article

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