Last glacial maximum constraints on the Earth System model HadGEM2-ES

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 45, Issue 5-6, 2015, Pages 1657-1672

  Hopcroft, Peter O ^a   Valdes, Paul J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Land surface feedbacks; LGM; Palaeoclimate sensitivity

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; BOUNDARY CONDITION; CARBON CYCLE; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; PALEOCLIMATE; SEA ICE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

SIBERIA;

EID: 84941419675     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-014-2421-0     Document Type: Article

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