Greenland ice sheet contribution to sea level rise during the last interglacial period: A modelling study driven and constrained by ice core data

Climate of the Past

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 353-366

  Quiquet, A ^a,d   Ritz, C ^a   Punge, H J ^b,e   Salas Y Melia D ^c  

^a VERIMAG   (France)

^b DIF   (France)

^c CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^e KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; DATA SET; GIS; ICE CORE; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE; LAST INTERGLACIAL; NUMERICAL MODEL; PALEOCLIMATE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RECONSTRUCTION; SEA LEVEL CHANGE;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND; GREENLAND ICE SHEET;

EID: 84873901185     PISSN: 18149324     EISSN: 18149332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/cp-9-353-2013     Document Type: Article

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