Last Glacial Maximum Sea Surface Temperatures: A Model-Data Comparison

Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 233-239

  Tao, Wang ^a   Yi, Liu ^b   Wei, Huang ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b NATIONAL SATELLITE METEOROLOGICAL CENTER   (China)

Author keywords

Last Glacial Maximum; MARGO; model; sea surface temperature

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELING; DATA SET; GRADIENT ANALYSIS; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; PALEOCLIMATE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH); PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 84919326402     PISSN: 16742834     EISSN: 23766123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/16742834.2013.11447087     Document Type: Article

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