The last interglacial climate: comparing direct and indirect impacts of insolation changes

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 48, Issue 9-10, 2017, Pages 3391-3407

  Pedersen, Rasmus A ^a,b   Langen, Peter L ^b   Vinther, Bo M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b DANISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

Author keywords

AMOC; EC Earth; Eemian; General circulation model; Last interglacial; Monsoon

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIATION; EEMIAN; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; LAST INTERGLACIAL; MONSOON; PALEOCLIMATE; SEA SURFACE; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; WARMING;

EID: 84979595912     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-016-3274-5     Document Type: Article

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