Towards a quantitative understanding of millennial-scale Antarctic warming events

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 29, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 74-85

  Timmermann, Axel ^a   Menviel, Laurie ^a   Okumura, Yuko ^b   Schilla, Annalisa ^c   Merkel, Ute ^d   Timm, Oliver ^a   Hu, Aixue ^b   Otto Bliesner, Bette ^b   Schulz, Michael ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA AIR RESOURCES BOARD   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2-STRUCTURE; AMPLIFICATION MECHANISM; ATLANTIC MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; ATMOSPHERIC RESPONSE; AUSTRAL WINTER; BIPOLAR SEESAW; CLIMATE RECORD; DIABATIC FORCING; EXTRATROPICAL; HEMISPHERIC COOLING; ICE SHEET; IN-PHASE; MARIE BYRD LAND; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGES; MODELING RESULTS; NEGATIVE PHASE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; PROXY RECORDS; RADIATIVE FORCINGS; REGIONAL COOLING; ROSS SEA; SOUTH AMERICA; TELECONNECTIONS; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TEMPERATURE RESPONSE; TIME-SCALES; WAVE NUMBERS; WESTERN SIDE;

AMPLIFICATION; ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; ATMOSPHERICS; FLIGHT DYNAMICS; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; ISOTOPES; PEELING;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

CLIMATE MODELING; DIABATIC PROCESS; GLACIAL ENVIRONMENT; ICE SHEET; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PALEOTEMPERATURE; RADIATIVE FORCING; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; TELECONNECTION; WARMING;

ANTARCTICA; MARIE BYRD LAND; ROSS SEA; SOUTHERN OCEAN; WEST ANTARCTICA;

EID: 73549122540     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2009.06.021     Document Type: Article

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