The PRISM4 (mid-Piacenzian) paleoenvironmental reconstruction

Climate of the Past

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 1519-1538

  Dowsett, Harry ^a   Dolan, Aisling ^b   Rowley, David ^c   Moucha, Robert ^d   Forte, Alessandro M ^e,f   Mitrovica, Jerry X ^g   Pound, Matthew ^h   Salzmann, Ulrich ^h   Robinson, Marci ^a   Chandler, Mark ^i,j   Foley, Kevin ^a   Haywood, Alan ^b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^d SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^g HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies   (United States)

^j NASA GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES   (United States)

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITION; CLIMATE MODELING; LAKE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PLIOCENE; RECONSTRUCTION; SEA ICE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SOIL STRUCTURE; TOPOGRAPHY; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 84978933381     PISSN: 18149324     EISSN: 18149332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/cp-12-1519-2016     Document Type: Article

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