Synoptic climate change as a driver of late Quaternary glaciations in the mid-latitudes of the Southern Hemisphere

Climate of the Past

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 11-19

  Rother, H ^a   Shulmeister, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; GLACIATION; PALEOATMOSPHERE; QUATERNARY; RAINFALL; SNOW;

ALPS; AUSTRALASIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; NEW ZEALAND; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 33646753138     PISSN: 18149324     EISSN: 18149332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/cp-2-11-2006     Document Type: Article

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