Neglecting ice-atmosphere interactions underestimates ice sheet melt in millennial-scale deglaciation simulations

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Pritchard, Michael S ^a   Bush, Andrew B G ^b   Marshall, Shawn J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CARBON DIOXIDE; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; ICE SHEET; ICE-ATMOSPHERE INTERACTIONS;

SEA ICE;

ABLATION; ALBEDO; ATMOSPHERE-ICE-OCEAN SYSTEM; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; BOUNDARY CONDITION; CARBON DIOXIDE; DEGLACIATION; HOLOCENE; LAURENTIDE ICE SHEET; PARAMETERIZATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; THERMODYNAMICS;

CANADA; LAURENTIAN MOUNTAINS; NORTH AMERICA; QUEBEC [CANADA];

EID: 41549166208     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL031738     Document Type: Article

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