Polar MM5 simulations of the winter climate of the Laurentide Ice Sheet at the LGM

Journal of Climate

Volumn 17, Issue 17, 2004, Pages 3415-3433

  Bromwich, David H ^a   Toracinta, E Richard ^a   Wej, Helin ^b   Oglesby, Robert J ^c   Fastook, James L ^d   Hughes, Terence J ^d  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

^c NASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESTIMATION; FLOW PATTERNS; ICE; JETS; OPTIMIZATION; SEA LEVEL; VEGETATION;

ANNUAL CYCLES; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); WINTER;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE MODELING; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; LAURENTIDE ICE SHEET; PALEOCLIMATE; WINTER;

EID: 5444269103     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(2004)017<3415:PMSOTW>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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