Numerical reconstructions of the Northern Hemisphere ice sheets through the last glacial-interglacial cycle

Climate of the Past

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 15-37

  Charbit, S ^a   Ritz, C ^b   Philippon, G ^a   Peyaud, V ^b   Kageyama, M ^a  

^a DIF   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; BOUNDARY CONDITION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE FORCING; GLACIER ADVANCE; GLACIER RETREAT; GRIP; ICE SHEET; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; LAST GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PALEOCLIMATE; RECONSTRUCTION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EURASIA; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 33846581876     PISSN: 18149324     EISSN: 18149332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/cp-3-15-2007     Document Type: Article

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