Hydrologic impacts of past shifts of Earth's thermal equator offer insight into those to be produced by fossil fuel CO2

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 42, 2013, Pages 16710-16715

  Broecker, Wallace S ^a   Putnam, Aaron E ^a,b  

^a International Research Institute for Climate and Society   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Deglaciation; Global warming; Hydroclimate; Intertropical Convergence Zone

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; FOSSIL FUEL;

AFRICA; ASIA; ASTRONOMY; CLIMATE CHANGE; LITTLE ICE AGE; MIDDLE EAST; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PALEOCLIMATE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEA ICE; SIMULATION; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; TEMPERATURE; VENEZUELA; WATER CYCLE; WINTER;

DEGLACIATION; GLOBAL WARMING; HYDROCLIMATE; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; FOSSIL FUELS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OCEANS AND SEAS;

EID: 84885777716     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1301855110     Document Type: Review

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