The Middle Miocene climate as modelled in an atmosphere-ocean-biosphere model

Climate of the Past

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1169-1188

  Krapp, M ^a,b   Jungclaus, J H ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; BIOSPHERE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE FEEDBACK; CLIMATE MODELING; FOSSIL RECORD; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HEAT TRANSFER; MIOCENE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOECOLOGY; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; VEGETATION; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 80855150830     PISSN: 18149324     EISSN: 18149332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/cp-7-1169-2011     Document Type: Article

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