The mechanism behind internally generated centennial-to-millennial scale climate variability in an earth system model of intermediate complexity

Geoscientific Model Development

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 377-389

  Friedrich, T ^a   Timmermann, A ^a   Menviel, L ^a,d   Elison Timm, O ^a   Mouchet, A ^b   Roche, D M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

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EID: 84856355909     PISSN: 1991959X     EISSN: 19919603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/gmd-3-377-2010     Document Type: Article

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