Regional and global forcing of glacier retreat during the last deglaciation

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Shakun, Jeremy D ^a   Clark, Peter U ^b   He, Feng ^b,c   Lifton, Nathaniel A ^d   Liu, Zhengyu ^c   Otto Bliesner, Bette L ^e  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^d PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DETERMINATION; BOULDER; CLIMATE MODELING; COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDE; GLACIER RETREAT; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GAS; ICE SHEET; INSOLATION; LAST DEGLACIATION; MORAINE; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; REGIONAL PATTERN;

ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CLIMATE; DEGLACIATION; GLACIER; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; GREENHOUSE GAS; ICE SHEET; SEA; SIMULATION; SUNLIGHT; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 84939865122     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms9059     Document Type: Article

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