Early Last Interglacial Greenland Ice Sheet melting and a sustained period of meridional overturning weakening: A model analysis of the uncertainties

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 43, Issue 3-4, 2014, Pages 1025-1039

  Bakker, Pepijn ^a   Renssen, Hans ^a   Van Meerbeeck, Cédric J ^b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b Caribbean Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology Husbands   (Barbados)

Author keywords

Last Interglacial; Overturning circulation; Palaeoclimate modelling; Stability

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELING; HIGH TEMPERATURE; ICE SHEET; LAST INTERGLACIAL; MELTING; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; OVERTURN; PALEOCLIMATE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND; GREENLAND ICE SHEET;

EID: 84905099921     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-013-1935-1     Document Type: Article

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