Modeling the climate response to a massive methane release from gas hydrates

Paleoceanography

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2004, Pages

  Renssen, H ^a   Beets, C J ^a   Fichefet, T ^b   Goosse, H ^b   Kroon, D ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Climate model; Methane

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE-ICE-OCEAN SYSTEM; CLIMATE MODELING; EOCENE; GAS HYDRATE; METHANE; PALEOCENE; VENTILATION;

EID: 4544377418     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003PA000968     Document Type: Article

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