Simulating arctic climate warmth and icefield retreat in the last interglaciation

Science

Volumn 311, Issue 5768, 2006, Pages 1751-1753

  Otto Bliesner, Bette L ^a   Marshall, Shawn J ^b   Overpeck, Jonathan T ^c,d   Miller, Gifford H ^e   Hu, Aixue ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^c University of Arizona   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GLACIERS; GLOBAL WARMING; MELTING; SEA LEVEL;

ARCTIC CLIMATE WARMTH; HIGH-LATITUDE WARMING; ICE-CORE CONSTRAINTS; ICEFIELD RETREAT;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ICE;

GLACIATION; GLOBAL CLIMATE; ICE SHEET; PALEOCLIMATE; SIMULATION;

ARCTIC CLIMATE; ARTICLE; GLACIER; GLOBAL CLIMATE; LATITUDE; MELTING POINT; MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; WARMING;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND;

EID: 33645234719     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1120808     Document Type: Article

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