Last glacial maximum world ocean simulations at eddy-permitting and coarse resolutions: Do eddies contribute to a better consistency between models and palaeoproxies

Climate of the Past

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 2669-2686

  Ballarotta, M ^a   Brodeau, L ^a   Brandefelt, J ^b   Lundberg, P ^a   Doos K ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELING; DATA SET; EDDY; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; NUMERICAL MODEL; PALEOCLIMATE; PARAMETERIZATION; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RESOLUTION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84890305735     PISSN: 18149324     EISSN: 18149332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/cp-9-2669-2013     Document Type: Article

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