'Study the past, if you would divine the future': A retrospective on measuring and understanding Quaternary climate change

Journal of Quaternary Science

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 154-187

  Mccarroll, Danny ^a  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

AMOC; Climate change; Climate sensitivity; GCM evaluation; Solar forcing

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CLIMATE VARIATION; HOLOCENE; MILANKOVITCH CYCLE; PALEOCLIMATE; QUATERNARY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84925864912     PISSN: 02678179     EISSN: 10991417     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jqs.2775     Document Type: Article

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