Lesson from the past: present insolation minimum holds potential for glacial inception

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 26, Issue 25-28, 2007, Pages 3025-3029

  Müller, Ulrich C ^a   Pross, Jörg ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CORRELATION METHODS; GAS EMISSIONS; GREENHOUSE GASES; VEGETATION;

ANTHROPOGENIC GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSION; GLACIAL INCEPTION;

GLOBAL WARMING;

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; BOUNDARY CONDITION; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DOMINANCE; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GAS; HOLOCENE; INSOLATION; INTERGLACIAL; ORBITAL FORCING; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; STEPPE; TUNDRA;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 36849050768     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2007.10.006     Document Type: Article

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