Can the Last Glacial Maximum constrain climate sensitivity?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 24, 2012, Pages

  Hargreaves, J C ^a   Annan, J D ^a   Yoshimori, M ^b   Abe Ouchi, A ^b  

^a Research Institute for Global Change ^*  (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

CLIMATE SENSITIVITY; HARGREAVES; HIGH PROBABILITY; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; MULTI-MODEL ENSEMBLE; TEMPERATURE RECONSTRUCTION; TROPICAL TEMPERATURES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; PALEOCLIMATE; RECONSTRUCTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 84871571629     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL053872     Document Type: Article

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