Deglacial ice sheet meltdown: Orbital pacemaking and CO2 effects

Climate of the Past

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1567-1579

  Heinemann, M ^a,b   Timmermann, A ^b   Elison Timm, O ^c   Saito, F ^d   Abe Ouchi, A ^d,e  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^d JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE MODELING; DEGLACIATION; GLACIAL ENVIRONMENT; ICE SHEET; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PALEOCLIMATE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD;

EID: 84908051938     PISSN: 18149324     EISSN: 18149332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/cp-10-1567-2014     Document Type: Article

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