Greenland Ice Sheet influence on Last Interglacial climate: Global sensitivity studies performed with an atmosphere-ocean general circulation model

Climate of the Past

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 1313-1338

  Pfeiffer, Madlene ^a   Lohmann, Gerrit ^a,b  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; COSMOS; GIS; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GLOBAL WARMING; HYPSITHERMAL; ICE CORE; LAST INTERGLACIAL; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; PALEOCLIMATE; SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND; GREENLAND ICE SHEET;

EID: 84974603737     PISSN: 18149324     EISSN: 18149332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/cp-12-1313-2016     Document Type: Article

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