Mid-Pliocene global climate simulation with MRI-CGCM2.3: Set-up and initial results of PlioMIP Experiments 1 and 2

Geoscientific Model Development

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 793-808

  Kamae, Y ^a,b   Ueda, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOME; CLIMATE MODELING; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; PALEOCLIMATE; PLIOCENE; POLAR REGION; SEA SURFACE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84866547693     PISSN: 1991959X     EISSN: 19919603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/gmd-5-793-2012     Document Type: Article

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