Transient simulations, empirical reconstructions and forcing mechanisms for the Mid-holocene hydrological climate in southern Patagonia

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 333-355

  Wagner, Sebastian ^a   Widmann, Martin ^a   Jones, Julie ^a   Haberzettl, Torsten ^b   Lücke, Andreas ^c   Mayr, Christoph ^c   Ohlendorf, Christian ^b   Schäbitz, Frank ^d   Zolitschka, Bernd ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^c FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GREENHOUSE GAS; HOLOCENE; ORBITAL FORCING; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; WESTERLY;

PATAGONIA; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 34347382530     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-007-0229-x     Document Type: Article

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