Response of the North African summer monsoon to precession and obliquity forcings in the EC-Earth GCM

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 44, Issue 1-2, 2015, Pages 279-297

  Bosmans, J H C ^a,b   Drijfhout, S S ^b,c   Tuenter, E ^a,b   Hilgen, F J ^a   Lourens, L J ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

^c NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Astronomical forcing; Milankovitch cycles; North African monsoon; Paleoclimate modelling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84934908376     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-014-2260-z     Document Type: Article

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