Introduction. Progress in Earth science and climate studies

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 366, Issue 1885, 2008, Pages 4503-4508

  Thompson, J Michael T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Atmosphere and oceans; Climate change; Earth's mantle; Ecology; Volcanoes

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; EARTH SCIENCES; GEOLOGIC MODELS; LANDFORMS; OCEAN CURRENTS; SOIL TESTING; VOLCANOES;

ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENTS; ATMOSPHERE AND OCEANS; BOREAL FORESTS; CHRISTMASES; CLIMATE MODELS; CLIMATE STUDIES; EARTH'S CLIMATES; EARTH'S MANTLE; IRON CORES; MATHEMATICAL MODELLING; PALAEOCLIMATE; SOIL INTERACTIONS;

EARTH ATMOSPHERE;

ASTRONOMY; ATMOSPHERE; CLIMATE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ASTRONOMY; ATMOSPHERE; CLIMATE; EARTH (PLANET); MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 55849141637     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2008.0215     Document Type: Review

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