Vegetation-climate interactions in the warm mid-Cretaceous

Climate of the Past

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 565-576

  Zhou, J ^a   Poulsen, C J ^a   Rosenbloom, N ^b   Shields, C ^b   Briegleb, B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBEDO; ATMOSPHERE-BIOSPHERE INTERACTION; BARE SOIL; CARBON DIOXIDE; CRETACEOUS; FOREST; FOSSIL; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HEAT TRANSFER; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; OVERTURN; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOECOLOGY; POLAR REGION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); VEGETATION DYNAMICS; WARMING;

EID: 84863343614     PISSN: 18149324     EISSN: 18149332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/cp-8-565-2012     Document Type: Article

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