Early Eocene Arctic climate sensitivity to pCO2 and basin geography

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 2009, Pages

  Shellito, Cindy J ^a   Lamarque, Jean François ^b   Sloan, Lisa C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN COLORADO   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL AVERAGE; ARCTIC BASIN; ARCTIC CLIMATE; ARCTIC OCEAN; ARCTIC SEA ICE; ARCTIC WARMING; ATMOSPHERIC GREENHOUSE; ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE CONTENT; CLIMATE MODELING; COMMUNITY CLIMATE SYSTEM MODEL; PALEOCENE; POTENTIAL EFFECTS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; EXPERIMENTS; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GASES; MODEL STRUCTURES; SEA ICE;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CLIMATE MODELING; EOCENE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GREENHOUSE GAS; MOISTURE CONTENT; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; TESTING METHOD;

ARCTIC OCEAN;

EID: 68249135250     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL037248     Document Type: Article

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