Paleoglaciological reconstructions for the Tibetan Plateau during the last glacial cycle: Evaluating numerical ice sheet simulations driven by GCM-ensembles

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 30, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 248-267

  Kirchner, Nina ^a   Greve, Ralf ^b   Stroeven, Arjen P ^a   Heyman, Jakob ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE FORCINGS; CLIMATE RECONSTRUCTION; ENDMEMBERS; EURASIA; GLACIAL HISTORY; GLACIAL LANDFORMS; GLOBAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GLOBAL CLIMATES; GREENLAND ICE SHEET; HIGHER RESOLUTION; ICE SHEET; ICE SHEET MODELS; ICE VOLUMES; LAST GLACIAL; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; NUMERICAL RESULTS; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; PALEOCLIMATES; REGIONAL CLIMATE; STAND -ALONE; SURFACE MASS BALANCE; THERMO-MECHANICAL; TIBETAN PLATEAU; TOPOGRAPHIC FEATURES;

CLIMATE MODELS; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GLACIERS; LANDFORMS; REPAIR; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ICE;

CHRONOLOGY; CLIMATE FORCING; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GLACIAL HISTORY; GLACIAL LANDFORM; GLACIATION; ICE SHEET; LAST GLACIAL; MASS BALANCE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PALEOCLIMATE; RECONSTRUCTION; REGIONAL CLIMATE; THERMOMECHANICS;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 78650522105     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.11.006     Document Type: Article

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