Simulation of the Last Glacial Maximum climate over East Asia with a regional climate model nested in a general circulation model

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 248, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 376-390

  Ju, Lixia ^a   Wang, Huijun ^a   Jiang, Dabang ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

East Asia; Last Glacial Maximum; Paleoclimate; Regional climate model

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CLIMATE MODELING; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; PALEOCLIMATE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RECONSTRUCTION; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

EID: 34247620306     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2006.12.012     Document Type: Article

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