Modeling Northern Hemisphere ice-sheet distribution during MIS 5 and MIS 7 glacial inceptions

Climate of the Past

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 269-291

  Colleoni, F ^a   Masina, S ^a,b   Cherchi, A ^a,b   Navarra, A ^a,b   Ritz, C ^c   Peyaud, V ^c   Otto Bliesner, B ^d  

^a CENTRO EURO MEDITERRANEO SUI CAMBIAMENTI CLIMATICI   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^c UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^d NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBEDO; ATMOSPHERE-ICE-OCEAN SYSTEM; CLIMATE FEEDBACK; CLIMATE MODELING; GLACIER; ICE SHEET; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PALEOCLIMATE; RECONSTRUCTION; SEA ICE; THERMOMECHANICS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EID: 84919595217     PISSN: 18149324     EISSN: 18149332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/cp-10-269-2014     Document Type: Article

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