How warm was the last interglacial? new model-data comparisons

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

Volumn 371, Issue 2001, 2013, Pages

  Otto Bliesner, Bette L ^a   Rosenbloom, Nan ^a   Stone, Emma J ^b   Mckay, Nicholas P ^c   Lunt, Daniel J ^b   Brady, Esther C ^a   Overpeck, Jonathan T ^d  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Climate modelling; Last interglacial; Polar warmth

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; INCIDENT SOLAR RADIATION; SEA ICE; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

COMMUNITY CLIMATE SYSTEM MODEL; LAST INTERGLACIAL; MODEL-DATA COMPARISONS; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; POLAR WARMTH; SURFACE TEMPERATURE CHANGES; TOP OF THE ATMOSPHERES; WEST ANTARCTIC ICE SHEETS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 84884883066     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2013.0097     Document Type: Article

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