Terminating the last interglacial: The role of ice sheet-climate feedbacks in a GCM asynchronously coupled to an ice sheet model

Journal of Climate

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1871-1882

  Herrington, Adam R ^a   Poulsen, Christopher J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Coupled models; Feedback; General circulation models; Glaciation

Indexed keywords

ABRUPT EXPANSIONS; COUPLED MODELS; COUPLING SCHEME; DOMINANT PROCESS; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GLACIATION; ICE SHEET; ICE SHEET MODELS; ICE TOPOGRAPHY; ICE VOLUMES; ICE-CAPS; LAST INTERGLACIAL; LAURENTIDE ICE SHEETS; PHYSICAL MECHANISM; RAPID EXPANSION; STATIONARY WAVES;

CLIMATE MODELS; COMMUNICATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXPANSION; EXPERIMENTS; FEEDBACK; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GLACIERS; SNOW;

ICE;

ALBEDO; CLIMATE FEEDBACK; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GEOLOGICAL RECORD; GLACIATION; ICE CAP; LAST INTERGLACIAL; LAURENTIDE ICE SHEET; PALEOCLIMATE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

CANADA;

EID: 84858606653     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00218.1     Document Type: Article

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