Aeolian dust modeling over the past four glacial cycles with CLIMBER-2

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 49-60

  Bauer, Eva ^a   Ganopolski Andrey, A ^a  

^a POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aeolian dust cycle; Earth system modeling; Glacial interglacial climate cycles; Milankovitch theory

Indexed keywords

AEOLIAN DUSTS; CARBON CYCLES; CRYOSPHERE; CYCLE MODEL; CYCLICITY; DUST DEPOSITION; DUST EMISSION; DUST SOURCES; DUST TRANSPORT; EARTH SYSTEM MODEL; EARTH SYSTEM MODELING; GLACIAL CYCLES; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CLIMATE CYCLES; ICE CORE; ICE SHEET; INTERGLACIAL CLIMATE; INTERMEDIATE COMPLEXITY; MILANKOVITCH THEORY; SPACE-TIME VARIABILITY; SPATIAL GRIDS; TERRESTRIAL VEGETATION; TERRIGENOUS SEDIMENT; TIME-SCALES;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; CLIMATE MODELS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EARTH (PLANET); GLACIAL GEOLOGY; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

DUST;

ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; CARBON CYCLE; CRYOSPHERE; EOLIAN DEPOSIT; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; ICE CORE; ICE SHEET; MARINE SEDIMENT; MILANKOVITCH CYCLE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TERRIGENOUS DEPOSIT;

EID: 77958084935     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2010.07.009     Document Type: Article

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