Evolution of the large-scale atmospheric circulation in response to changing ice sheets over the last glacial cycle

Climate of the Past

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1453-1471

  Lofverstrom M ^a   Caballero, R ^a   Nilsson, J ^a   Kleman, J ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); GREENHOUSE GAS; ICE SHEET; INTERGLACIAL; JET; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE;

CANADA; LAURENTIAN MOUNTAINS; QUEBEC [CANADA];

EID: 84940274191     PISSN: 18149324     EISSN: 18149332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/cp-10-1453-2014     Document Type: Article

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