High Earth-system climate sensitivity determined from Pliocene carbon dioxide concentrations

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 27-30

  Pagani, Mark ^a   Liu, Zhonghui ^a,b   Lariviere, Jonathan ^c   Ravelo, Ana Christina ^c  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 73449133402     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo724     Document Type: Article

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