The nature of MIS 3 stadial-interstadial transitions in Europe: New insights from model-data comparisons

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 30, Issue 25-26, 2011, Pages 3618-3637

  Van Meerbeeck, C J ^a   Renssen, H ^a   Roche, D M ^a,b   Wohlfarth, B ^c   Bohncke, S J P ^a   Bos, J A A ^a   Engels, S ^a   Helmens, K F ^c   Sanchez Goni M F ^d   Svensson, A ^e   Vandenberghe, J ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b DIF   (France)

^c STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Abrupt climate change; Last glacial period; Marine Isotope Stage 3; Palaeoclimate modelling

Indexed keywords

ABRUPT CLIMATE CHANGE; ANNUAL PRECIPITATION; ATLANTIC MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; CLIMATE MODEL SIMULATIONS; COMBINED EFFECT; EARTH SYSTEM MODEL; GLACIAL CLIMATE; GREENLAND; GROWING DEGREE DAYS; HEAT TRANSPORT; INTERSTADIALS; LAST GLACIAL PERIOD; LIMITING FACTORS; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGES; NORTH ATLANTIC; PALAEOCLIMATE; SUMMER PRECIPITATION; SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURES; TREE COVER; VEGETATION CHANGE; WESTERN EUROPE;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE MODELS; FORESTRY; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; ISOTOPES; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VEGETATION;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

BOUNDARY CONDITION; CLIMATE MODELING; DATA SET; GLACIAL ENVIRONMENT; GLOBAL WARMING; HEAT TRANSFER; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; LAST GLACIAL; LIMITING FACTOR; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECONSTRUCTION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

CLIMATES; EUROPE; FORESTRY; GEOLOGY; ISOTOPES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLANTS; TEMPERATURE; THREE DIMENSIONAL DESIGN;

ARCTIC; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); GREENLAND;

EID: 81155124205     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2011.08.002     Document Type: Article

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