The role of CO2 decline for the onset of Northern Hemisphere glaciation

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 119, Issue , 2015, Pages 22-34

  Willeit, Matteo ^a   Ganopolski, Andrey ^a   Calov, Reinhard ^a   Robinson, Alexander ^a,b,c   Maslin, Mark ^d  

^a POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTO DE GEOCIENCIAS   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Carbon dioxide; Earth system modelling; Ice sheets; Northern hemishpere glaciation; Paleoclimatology; Pliocene Pleistocene transition

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GLACIERS; INCIDENT SOLAR RADIATION; INVERSE PROBLEMS; ORBITS; SEA LEVEL; SURFACE WATERS;

EARTH SYSTEMS; ICE SHEET; NORTHERN HEMISHPERE GLACIATION; PALEOCLIMATOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE;

ICE;

BENTHOS; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CYCLICITY; GLACIATION; ICE SHEET; INSOLATION; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; ORBITAL FORCING; PALEOCLIMATE; PLIOCENE-PLEISTOCENE BOUNDARY; RECONSTRUCTION; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

ARCTIC; EURASIA; GREENLAND; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 84928898826     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2015.04.015     Document Type: Article

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