Reconstructing the Late Miocene climate and oceanic heat flux using the AGCM ECHAM4 coupled to a mixed-layer ocean model with adjusted flux correction

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 238, Issue 1-4, 2006, Pages 399-423

  Steppuhn, Anke ^a   Micheels, Arne ^a   Geiger, Gunfried ^a   Mosbrugger, Volker ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Climate modelling; Flux correction; Miocene; Mixed layer ocean model; Sea surface temperature

Indexed keywords

CIRCULATION MODELING; CLIMATE CHANGE; HEAT FLUX; ICE SHEET; TORTONIAN;

ANTARCTICA;

EID: 33746782590     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2006.03.037     Document Type: Article

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