Modelling of mineral dust for interglacial and glacial climate conditions with a focus on Antarctica

Climate of the Past

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 765-779

  Sudarchikova, N ^a   Mikolajewicz, U ^a   Timmreck, C ^a   O'Donnell, D ^b   Schurgers, G ^c,f   Sein, D ^d   Zhang, K ^e  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^b FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

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

^e PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; DUST; EOLIAN DEPOSIT; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; ICE CORE; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; PALEOCLIMATE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY);

ANTARCTICA; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 84930199998     PISSN: 18149324     EISSN: 18149332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/cp-11-765-2015     Document Type: Article

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