North American ice-sheet dynamics and the onset of 100,000-year glacial cycles

Nature

Volumn 454, Issue 7206, 2008, Pages 869-872

  Bintanja, R ^a,b   Van De Wal, R S W ^b  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENTHOS; CLIMATE CYCLE; GLACIATION; ICE SHEET; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PALEOCLIMATE; PLIOCENE; SEA LEVEL;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; GLACIATION; GLACIER; ICE SHEET; NORTH AMERICA; PALEOCLIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA LEVEL;

EID: 49649087449     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature07158     Document Type: Article

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