Fingerprinting the 8.2 ka event climate response in a coupled climate model

Journal of Quaternary Science

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 118-127

  Wiersma, Ane P ^a,b   Roche, Didier M ^b,c   Renssen, Hans ^b  

^a DELTARES   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

8.2 ka event; Climate modelling; Duration; Geographical distribution; Magnitude, time transgressive; Timing

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELING; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; ICE CORE; PALEOCLIMATE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; SPATIAL VARIATION;

ARCTIC; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); GREENLAND; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 78751495756     PISSN: 02678179     EISSN: 10991417     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jqs.1439     Document Type: Article

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