Tropical cooling and the onset of North American glaciation

Climate of the Past

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 549-557

  Huybers, P ^a   Molnar, P ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABLATION; CLIMATE FORCING; COOLING; GLACIATION; GLOBAL WARMING; LOW TEMPERATURE; OBLIQUITY; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 34548655081     PISSN: 18149324     EISSN: 18149332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/cp-3-549-2007     Document Type: Article

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