Last interglacial temperature evolution - A model inter-comparison

Climate of the Past

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 605-619

  Bakker, P ^a   Stone, E J ^b   Charbit, S ^c   Groger, M ^d   Krebs Kanzow, U ^e   Ritz, S P ^f   Varma, V ^g   Khon, V ^e,h   Lunt, D J ^b   Mikolajewicz, U ^d   Prange, M ^g   Renssen, H ^a   Schneider, B ^e   Schulz, M ^g  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c DIF   (France)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^g UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^h OBUKHOV INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELING; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GAS; ICE COVER; INSOLATION; LAST INTERGLACIAL; MONSOON; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; SEA ICE; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; TEMPERATURE PROFILE;

ARCTIC; ATLANTIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH); SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 84881146562     PISSN: 18149324     EISSN: 18149332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/cp-9-605-2013     Document Type: Article

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