Ice age earth rotation

Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Volumn 39, Issue , 2011, Pages 577-616

  Mitrovica, Jerry X ^a   Wahr, John ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Antarctic; climate change; Greenland; ice sheet; sea level

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTIC; EARTH ROTATION; EARTH'S CLIMATE; GEODETIC CONSTRAINTS; GLACIAL ISOSTATIC ADJUSTMENT; GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGES; GREENLAND; ICE AGE; ICE SHEET; MANTLE VISCOSITY; SEA LEVEL RISE; TERRESTRIAL PLANETS; TRUE POLAR WANDER; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

EARTH (PLANET); FORECASTING; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GLACIERS; ICE; ICE PROBLEMS; ROTATION;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CANONICAL ANALYSIS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONVERGENCE; EARTH ROTATION; GEODETIC DATUM; MANTLE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLEISTOCENE; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; THEORETICAL STUDY; TWENTIETH CENTURY; VISCOSITY;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND;

EID: 79955502177     PISSN: 00846597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-earth-040610-133404     Document Type: Article

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