Late Pliocene to Pleistocene sensitivity of the Greenland Ice Sheet in response to external forcing and internal feedbacks

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1247-1268

  Koenig, Sebastian J ^a   DeConto, Robert M ^a   Pollard, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Forcing; General Circulation Model (GCM); Greenland Ice Sheet; Ice sheet modeling; Pleistocene; Pliocene

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; BIOME; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE FEEDBACK; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; ORBITAL FORCING; PALEOCLIMATE; PLIOCENE-PLEISTOCENE BOUNDARY; TUNDRA; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND; GREENLAND ICE SHEET;

EID: 80052261024     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-011-1050-0     Document Type: Article

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