Climate model and proxy data constraints on ocean warming across the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum

Earth-Science Reviews

Volumn 125, Issue , 2013, Pages 123-145

  Dunkley Jones, Tom ^a   Lunt, Daniel J ^b   Schmidt, Daniela N ^b   Ridgwell, Andy ^b   Sluijs, Appy ^c   Valdes, Paul J ^b   Maslin, Mark ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate; Eocene; Paleocene; PETM; Warming

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CLIMATE MODELING; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; GREENHOUSE GAS; HYPSITHERMAL; INTERMEDIATE WATER; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; PALEOCENE-EOCENE BOUNDARY; PALEOCLIMATE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; WARMING;

ARCHAEA;

EID: 84882751221     PISSN: 00128252     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2013.07.004     Document Type: Review

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