The early eocene equable climate problem: Can perturbations of climate model parameters identify possible solutions?

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

Volumn 371, Issue 2001, 2013, Pages

  Sagoo, Navjit ^a   Valdes, Paul ^a   Flecker, Rachel ^a   Gregoire, Lauren J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Data model; Eocene; Eocene model; Equable; Perturbed physics ensemble

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); CARBON DIOXIDE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GLOBAL WARMING; OPTIMIZATION;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE SENSITIVITY; CONTROL PARAMETERS; DATA/MODEL; EOCENE; EQUABLE; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; PERTURBED PHYSICS ENSEMBLE;

CLIMATE MODELS;

EID: 84884888151     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2013.0123     Document Type: Article

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