Mid-Holocene and Last Glacial Maximum climate simulations with the IPSL model-part I: Comparing IPSL_CM5A to IPSL_CM4

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 40, Issue 9-10, 2013, Pages 2447-2468

  Kageyama, Masa ^a   Braconnot, Pascale ^a   Bopp, Laurent ^a   Caubel, Arnaud ^a   Foujols, Marie Alice ^b   Guilyardi, Eric ^c,e   Khodri, Myriam ^c   Lloyd, James ^c   Lombard, Fabien ^d   Mariotti, Véronique ^a   Marti, Olivier ^a   Roy, Tilla ^c   Woillez, Marie Noëlle ^a  

^a DIF   (France)

^b INSTITUT PIERRE SIMON LAPLACE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

^d LABORATOIRE D OCÉANOGRAPHIE DE VILLEFRANCHE   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

IPSL climate model; Last Glacial Maximum; Mid Holocene; PMIP CMIP

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITION; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; HOLOCENE; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; MONSOON; PALEOCLIMATE;

EID: 84876841372     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-012-1488-8     Document Type: Article

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