Strength of forest-albedo feedback in mid-Holocene climate simulations

Climate of the Past

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1027-1039

  Otto, J ^a,b,d   Raddatz, T ^a   Claussen, M ^a,c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^b INTERNATIONAL MAX PLANCK RESEARCH SCHOOL ON EARTH SYSTEM MODELLING   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBEDO; CLIMATE EFFECT; GRASSLAND; HOLOCENE; LATITUDE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOTEMPERATURE; PARAMETERIZATION; RECONSTRUCTION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 80053424035     PISSN: 18149324     EISSN: 18149332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/cp-7-1027-2011     Document Type: Article

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