Orbitally forced climate changes in the Tasman sector during the Middle Eocene

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 280, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 361-370

  Warnaar, Jeroen ^a   Bijl, Peter K ^a   Huber, Matthew ^b   Sloan, Lisa ^c   Brinkhuis, Henk ^a   Röhl, Ursula ^d   Sriver, Ryan ^b   Visscher, Henk ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

General circulation model; Middle Eocene; Model data comparison; Orbital forcing; Organic walled dinoflagellate cysts; Southern Ocean

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; DINOFLAGELLATE CYST; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; EOCENE; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; ORBITAL FORCING; PALEOGENE; PALYNOMORPH; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); TEMPERATURE EFFECT; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

AUSTRALASIA; NEW ZEALAND; SOUTH ISLAND; SOUTHERN OCEAN; TASMAN;

DINOPHYCEAE; NOTHOFAGUS;

EID: 69049113812     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2009.06.023     Document Type: Article

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