Climate variability and change since 850 ce an ensemble approach with the community earth system model

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 97, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 787-801

  Otto Bliesner, Bette L ^a,c   Brady, Esther C ^a   Fasullo, John ^a   Jahn, Alexandra ^b   Landrum, Laura ^a   Stevenson, Samantha ^a   Rosenbloom, Nan ^a   Mai, Andrew ^a   Strand, Gary ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; CLIMATOLOGY; EARTH (PLANET);

CLIMATE FORCINGS; CLIMATE VARIABILITY AND CHANGE; EARTH SYSTEM MODEL; ENSEMBLE APPROACHES; LAST MILLENNIUMS; MODEL SIMULATION; MODELING PROJECT; RESEARCH COMMUNITIES;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 84973497862     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-D-14-00233.1     Document Type: Article

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