Simulating the Antarctic ice sheet in the late-Pliocene warm period: PLISMIP-ANT, an ice-sheet model intercomparison project

Cryosphere

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 881-903

  De Boer, B ^a,b   Dolan, A M ^c   Bernales, J ^d,e   Gasson, E ^f   Goelzer, H ^g   Golledge, N R ^h,i   Sutter, J ^j   Huybrechts, P ^g   Lohmann, G ^j   Rogozhina, I ^d   Abe Ouchi, A ^k   Saito, F ^l   Van De Wal, R S W ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^d GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^e FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^g VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^h VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

ⁱ GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

^j ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^k UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

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

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; FUTURE PROSPECT; ICE SHEET; PLIOCENE; RECONSTRUCTION;

ANTARCTIC ICE SHEET; ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTIC ICE SHEET; EAST ANTARCTICA; WEST ANTARCTIC ICE SHEET; WEST ANTARCTICA;

EID: 84928947554     PISSN: 19940416     EISSN: 19940424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/tc-9-881-2015     Document Type: Article

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