Land cover influences on the regional climate of western North America during the early Eocene

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 72, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 25-31

  Thrasher, Bridget L ^a   Sloan, Lisa C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Eocene; land cover; North America; regional climate model

Indexed keywords

LAKES;

COMPARISON OF MODELS; EOCENE; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; LAND COVER; MEAN ANNUAL PRECIPITATION; MEAN ANNUAL TEMPERATURES; NORTH AMERICA; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELING;

CLIMATE MODELS;

EID: 84872048600     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2010.02.002     Document Type: Article

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