Large-scale features of Pliocene climate: Results from the Pliocene Model Intercomparison Project

Climate of the Past

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 191-209

  Haywood, A M ^a   Hill, D J ^a,b   Dolan, A M ^a   Otto Bliesner, B L ^c   Bragg, F ^d   Chan, W L ^e   Chandler, M A ^f   Contoux, C ^g,h   Dowsett, H J ⁱ   Jost, A ^h   Kamae, Y ^j   Lohmann, G ^k   Lunt, D J ^d   Abe Ouchi, A ^e,l   Pickering, S J ^a   Ramstein, G ^g   Rosenbloom, N A ^c   Salzmann, U ^m   Sohl, L ^f   Stepanek, C ^k   Ueda, H ^j   Yan, Q ⁿ   Zhang, Z ^n,o   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^f Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^g LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^h UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

ⁱ U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^k ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^l JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^m NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

ⁿ INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^o BJERKNES CENTRE FOR CLIMATE RESEARCH   (Norway)

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITION; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE MODELING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; LATITUDE; ORBITAL FORCING; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PLIOCENE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RECONSTRUCTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TRACE GAS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84873824668     PISSN: 18149324     EISSN: 18149332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/cp-9-191-2013     Document Type: Article

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