Different ocean states and transient characteristics in last glacial maximum simulations and implications for deglaciation

Climate of the Past

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 2319-2333

  Zhang, X ^a   Lohmann, G ^a   Knorr, G ^a   Xu, X ^a  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; CLIMATOLOGY; DEEP SEA; DEGLACIATION; LAST GLACIAL; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; PALEOCLIMATE; SEA STATE;

EID: 84886897009     PISSN: 18149324     EISSN: 18149332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/cp-9-2319-2013     Document Type: Article

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