A regional climate palaeosimulation for Europe in the period 1500-1990 - Part 1: Model validation

Climate of the Past

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1667-1682

  Gomez Navarro J J ^a   Montavez J P ^b   Wagner, S ^a   Zorita, E ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITION; CLIMATE MODELING; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DATABASE; GREENHOUSE GAS; IRRADIANCE; MODEL VALIDATION; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOTEMPERATURE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RECONSTRUCTION; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SOLAR RADIATION; TOPOGRAPHY; VOLCANISM;

EUROPE;

EID: 84881464573     PISSN: 18149324     EISSN: 18149332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/cp-9-1667-2013     Document Type: Article

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