Coupled Northern Hemisphere permafrost-ice-sheet evolution over the last glacial cycle

Climate of the Past

Volumn 11, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 1165-1180

  Willeit, M ^a   Ganopolski, A ^a  

^a POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; GEOTHERMAL ENERGY; GLOBAL CLIMATE; HEAT FLUX; ICE SHEET; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PALEOCLIMATE; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PERMAFROST; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

CANADA; CANADIAN ARCTIC; SIBERIA;

EID: 84942090981     PISSN: 18149324     EISSN: 18149332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/cp-11-1165-2015     Document Type: Article

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