Impact of Earth's orbit and freshwater fluxes on Holocene climate mean seasonal cycle and ENSO characteristics

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 38, Issue 5-6, 2012, Pages 1081-1092

  Braconnot, P ^a   Luan, Y ^a,b,c   Brewer, Simon ^d   Zheng, W ^a  

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

^b INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate variability; ENSO; Fresh water fluxes; Holocene; Insolation; Paleoclimate modeling

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; DATA INTERPRETATION; EL NINO; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; HOLOCENE; PALEOCLIMATE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONAL VARIATION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EID: 84857444067     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-011-1029-x     Document Type: Article

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