Progress in rapid climate changes and their modeling study in millennial and centennial scales

Frontiers of Earth Science in China

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 187-198

  Jin, Liya ^a   Chen, Fahu ^a  

^a LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Mechanism of climate change; Paleoclimate modelling; Rapid climate change

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DANSGAARD-OESCHGER CYCLE; HOLOCENE; MODELING; PALEOCLIMATE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 44649124155     PISSN: 20950195     EISSN: 20950209     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11707-008-0028-7     Document Type: Review

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