Assessing orbitally-forced interglacial climate variability during the mid-Pliocene Warm Period

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 400, Issue , 2014, Pages 261-271

  Prescott, Caroline L ^a   Haywood, Alan M ^a   Dolan, Aisling M ^a   Hunter, Stephen J ^a   Pope, James O ^a   Pickering, Steven J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate model; K1; KM5c; Palaeoclimate; Pliocene; Variability

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE MODELS; ISOTOPES; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

K1; KM5C; PALAEOCLIMATE; PLIOCENE; VARIABILITY;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; INTERGLACIAL; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOTEMPERATURE; PLIOCENE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; QUATERNARY; WARMING;

EID: 84902297854     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2014.05.030     Document Type: Article

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