The role of sea ice in the temperature-precipitation feedback of glacial cycles

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 43, Issue 3-4, 2014, Pages 1001-1010

  Gildor, Hezi ^a   Ashkenazy, Yosef ^b   Tziperman, Eli ^c   Lev, Ilit ^d  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Glacial interglacial oscillations; Hydrological cycle; Sea ice; Temperature precipitation feedback

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ALBEDO; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; HEAT FLUX; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEA ICE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84905118453     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-013-1990-7     Document Type: Article

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