Abrupt glacial climate shifts controlled by ice sheet changes

Nature

Volumn 512, Issue 7514, 2014, Pages 290-294

  Zhang, Xu ^a   Lohmann, Gerrit ^a,b   Knorr, Gregor ^a,c   Purcell, Conor ^a,c  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^c CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SYSTEM; CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA ACQUISITION; GLACIAL DEPOSIT; GLACIAL ENVIRONMENT; GLACIATION; ICE SHEET; PLEISTOCENE;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COOLING; GLACIAL PERIOD; GLOBAL CLIMATE; ICE SHEET; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; WARMING;

EID: 84906536446     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature13592     Document Type: Article

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