Paleoclimate relevance to global warming

Encyclopedia of Quaternary Science

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 2010-2020

  Schneider, S H ^a   Mastrandrea, M D ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anthropogenic climate change; Climate modeling; Climate proxies; Climate sensitivity; Ecosystem dynamics; Fingerprint analysis; Global warming; Ice cores; Model validation; Radiative forcing

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650342255     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B0-44-452747-8/00020-X     Document Type: Chapter

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