The role of eastern tethys seaway closure in the middle miocene climatic transition (ca. 14 Ma)

Climate of the Past

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 2687-2702

  Hamon, N ^a,b   Sepulchre, P ^b   Lefebvre, V ^b,c   Ramstein, G ^b  

^a Institut International de Paléoprimatologie   (France)

^b LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^c CNES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENOZOIC; CLIMATE VARIATION; COOLING; CRYOSPHERE; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GLOBAL CLIMATE; LATITUDE; MIOCENE; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SHOALING WAVE;

ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 84890257422     PISSN: 18149324     EISSN: 18149332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/cp-9-2687-2013     Document Type: Article

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