Insolation and sea level variations during Quaternary interglacial periods: A review of recent results with special emphasis on the last interglaciation

Comptes Rendus - Geoscience

Volumn 340, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 701-710

  Duplessy, Jean Claude ^a   Charbit, Sylvie ^a   Kageyama, Masa ^a   Masson Delmotte, Valérie ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

Climate variability; Ice cores; Interglacial periods; Marine sediment cores; Paleoclimate

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIATION; FEEDBACK MECHANISM; ICE CORE; INTERGLACIAL; LAST GLACIAL; PALEOCLIMATE; QUATERNARY; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEDIMENT CORE; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION;

ANTARCTICA; WEST ANTARCTIC ICE SHEET; WEST ANTARCTICA;

EID: 54949132079     PISSN: 16310713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crte.2008.07.011     Document Type: Article

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