Dependence of Eemian Greenland temperature reconstructions on the ice sheet topography

Climate of the Past

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1221-1238

  Merz, N ^a   Born, A ^a   Raible, C C ^a   Fischer, H ^a   Stocker, T F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; EEMIAN; ENERGY BALANCE; GRIP; ICE CORE; ICE SHEET; INTERGLACIAL; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOTEMPERATURE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RECONSTRUCTION; SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX; SURFACE WIND; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; WIND VELOCITY;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND; GREENLAND ICE SHEET;

EID: 84903479013     PISSN: 18149324     EISSN: 18149332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/cp-10-1221-2014     Document Type: Article

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