Bifurcation structure and noise-assisted transitions in the Pleistocene glacial cycles

Paleoceanography

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Ditlevsen, Peter D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

glacial cycles; Pleistocene climate; stochastic climate model

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955485232     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: 19449186     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008PA001673     Document Type: Article

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