CO2 over the past 5 million years: Continuous simulation and new δ11B-based proxy data

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 439, Issue , 2016, Pages 1-10

  Stap, Lennert B ^a   de Boer, Bas ^a,b   Ziegler, Martin ^c,d   Bintanja, Richard ^e   Lourens, Lucas J ^c   van de Wal, Roderik S W ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^e ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Carbon dioxide; Global climate; Global ice volume; Plio Pleistocene; Proxy data; Sea level

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CLIMATE MODELS; DIGITAL STORAGE; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; ICE; SEA LEVEL;

CLIMATE-ICE SHEET MODELS; CONTINUOUS SIMULATION; GLOBAL CLIMATES; GLOBAL ICE VOLUME; GLOBAL-MEAN TEMPERATURE; PLIO-PLEISTOCENE; PROXY DATA; SEA-LEVEL FLUCTUATIONS;

CARBON DIOXIDE;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE MODELING; GLOBAL CLIMATE; ICE SHEET; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCLIMATE; PLEISTOCENE; PLIOCENE; SEA LEVEL;

ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA;

EID: 84961332596     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2016.01.022     Document Type: Article

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