The MIS 11 - MIS 1 analogy, southern European vegetation, atmospheric methane and the "early anthropogenic hypothesis

Climate of the Past

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 131-144

  Tzedakis, P C ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE VARIATION; FUTURE PROSPECT; GREENHOUSE GAS; HOLOCENE; INTERGLACIAL; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; METHANE; PALEOCLIMATE; SIGNAL;

EUROPE;

EID: 84860390201     PISSN: 18149324     EISSN: 18149332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/cp-6-131-2010     Document Type: Article

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