Methane variations on orbital timescales: A transient modeling experiment

Climate of the Past

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 635-648

  Konijnendijk, T Y M ^a,b   Weber, S L ^a,b   Tuenter, E ^a,b   Van Weele, M ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE FORCING; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GREENHOUSE GAS; ICE CORE; METHANE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; ORBITAL FORCING; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOECOLOGY; PARAMETERIZATION; VEGETATION HISTORY; WETLAND;

ASIA;

EID: 84876729035     PISSN: 18149324     EISSN: 18149332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/cp-7-635-2011     Document Type: Article

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