Simulating sub-Milankovitch climate variations associated with vegetation dynamics

Climate of the Past

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 169-180

  Tuenter, E ^a,b   Weber, S L ^a   Hilgen, F J ^b   Lourens, L J ^b  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIATION; DESERTIFICATION; INSOLATION; MILANKOVITCH CYCLE; MONSOON; ORBITAL FORCING; PALEOCLIMATE; PRECESSION; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; QUATERNARY; SIMULATION; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

AFRICA; ASIA; EURASIA;

EID: 33947672807     PISSN: 18149324     EISSN: 18149332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/cp-3-169-2007     Document Type: Article

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