A warm Miocene climate at low atmospheric CO2 levels

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 20, 2011, Pages

  Knorr, G ^a,b   Butzin, M ^a,c   Micheels, A ^d,e   Lohmann, G ^a,c  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

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

^e SENCKENBERG RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CARBON DIOXIDE; GLOBAL WARMING; TECTONICS; VEGETATION;

ATMOSPHERIC CARBON DIOXIDE; COUPLED ATMOSPHERE OCEAN GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GLOBAL MEAN SURFACE TEMPERATURE; GLOBAL TEMPERATURES; PRE-INDUSTRIAL LEVELS; TEMPERATURE INCREASE; VEGETATION DISTRIBUTION; WATER VAPOR FEEDBACKS;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ALBEDO; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE FORCING; CLIMATE MODELING; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ENERGY BALANCE; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; MIOCENE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOTEMPERATURE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TECTONICS; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 80455164778     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL048873     Document Type: Article

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