Sensitivity of the Late Saalian (140 kyrs BP) and LGM (21 kyrs BP) Eurasian ice sheet surface mass balance to vegetation feedbacks

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2009, Pages

  Colleoni, F ^a,c   Krinner, G ^a,c   Jakobsson, M ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c LABORATOIRE DE GLACIOLOGIE ET GÉOPHYSIQUE DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; EURASIA; ICE SHEET; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; MASS BALANCE; REGIONAL COOLING; REGIONAL WARMING; SURFACE MASS BALANCE; VEGETATION CHANGE; VEGETATION FEEDBACKS; VEGETATION MODEL;

EARTH ATMOSPHERE; GLACIERS; ICE; VEGETATION;

ARCTIC ENGINEERING;

CLIMATE CHANGE; COOLING; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; ICE SHEET; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; MASS BALANCE; SAALIAN; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; WARMING;

EURASIA;

EID: 67449167869     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL037200     Document Type: Article

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