North American Climate of the millennium: Underground temperatures and model comparison

Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface

Volumn 113, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Stevens, M Bruce ^a   González Rouco, J Fidel ^b   Beltrami, Hugo ^a  

^a ST FRANCIS XAVIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOREHOLE; CLIMATE FORCING; CLIMATE VARIATION; FORWARD MODELING; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 44449135936     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699011     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006JF000705     Document Type: Article

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