Can we predict the duration of an interglacial?

Climate of the Past

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1473-1485

  Tzedakis, P C ^a   Wolff, E W ^b   Skinner, L C ^c   Brovkin, V ^d   Hodell, D A ^c   McManus, J F ^e   Raynaud, D ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^e International Research Institute for Climate and Society   (United States)

^f UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; INTERGLACIAL; MILANKOVITCH CYCLE; PALEOCLIMATE; PLEISTOCENE; PREDICTION; SEA LEVEL; STOCHASTICITY; TIMESCALE;

EID: 84871011445     PISSN: 18149324     EISSN: 18149332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/cp-8-1473-2012     Document Type: Article

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