Cenozoic climate gradients in Eurasia - a palaeo-perspective on future climate change?

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 304, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 351-358

  Utescher, Torsten ^a,b   Bruch, Angela A ^b   Micheels, Arne ^b,c   Mosbrugger, Volker ^b,c   Popova, Svetlana ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b SENCKENBERG RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^c BIODIVERSITY AND CLIMATE RESEARCH CENTRE BIK F   (Germany)

^d KOMAROV BOTANICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Cenozoic; Climate anomalies; Future climate change; Palaeoclimate

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; COOLING; DATA SET; EOCENE; GLACIATION; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GAS; MIOCENE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PALEOBOTANY; PALEOCLIMATE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RECONSTRUCTION; SPATIAL VARIATION;

EURASIA;

EID: 79955463707     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2010.09.031     Document Type: Article

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