Glacial abrupt climate changes and Dansgaard-Oeschger oscillations in a coupled climate model

Paleoceanography

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2006, Pages

  Wang, Zhaomin ^a,b   Mysak, Lawrence A ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; DANSGAARD-OESCHGER CYCLE; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; OVERTURN; PALEOCLIMATE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 33751281158     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005PA001238     Document Type: Article

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