Regional climate model experiments to investigate the Asian monsoon in the Late Miocene

Climate of the Past

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 847-868

  Tang, H ^a   Micheels, A ^b,c   Eronen, J ^a   Fortelius, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

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

^c SENCKENBERG RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITION; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATOLOGY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; LATITUDE; MONSOON; NUMERICAL MODEL; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; REGIONAL CLIMATE; RESOLUTION; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TOPOGRAPHY; TORTONIAN; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 80051703274     PISSN: 18149324     EISSN: 18149332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/cp-7-847-2011     Document Type: Article

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