Relative impacts of insolation changes, meltwater fluxes and ice sheets on African and Asian monsoons during the Holocene

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 41, Issue 9-10, 2013, Pages 2267-2286

  Marzin, Charline ^a,b   Braconnot, Pascale ^a   Kageyama, Masa ^a  

^a DIF   (France)

^b MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Holocene; Ice sheet; IPSL model; Modelling; Monsoon; North Atlantic freshwater flux; Paleoclimate

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELING; COOLING; HOLOCENE; ICE SHEET; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; LATENT HEAT FLUX; MELTWATER; MONSOON; PALEOCLIMATE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); ATLANTIC OCEAN (TROPICAL); CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 84886666726     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-013-1948-9     Document Type: Article

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