Warm climates of the past-a lesson for the future?

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 371, Issue 2001, 2013, Pages

  Lunt, D J ^a   Elderfield, H ^b   Pancost, R ^a   Ridgwell, A ^a   Foster, G L ^c   Haywood, A ^d   Kiehl, J ^e   Sagoo, N ^a   Shields, C ^e   Stone, E J ^a   Valdes, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^e NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Future climate; Modelling; Palaeoclimate; Proxy data

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; EARTH (PLANET); MODELS; PAPER; PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS;

CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE; FUTURE CLIMATE; FUTURE PREDICTIONS; PALAEOCLIMATE; POLITICAL IMPLICATIONS; PROXY DATA;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 84884838925     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2013.0146     Document Type: Article

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