Warm Greenland during the last interglacial: The role of regional changes in sea ice cover

Climate of the Past

Volumn 12, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 2011-2031

  Merz, Niklaus ^a   Born, Andreas ^a   Raible, Christoph C ^a   Stocker, Thomas F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BILATERAL AGREEMENT; BOUNDARY CONDITION; CLIMATE MODELING; EEMIAN; ENERGY FLUX; ICE CORE; ICE COVER; ICE RETREAT; LAST INTERGLACIAL; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; SEA ICE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SNOW ACCUMULATION; SURFACE ENERGY;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); GREENLAND; GREENLAND ICE SHEET; LABRADOR SEA; NORWEGIAN SEA;

EID: 84993985747     PISSN: 18149324     EISSN: 18149332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/cp-12-2011-2016     Document Type: Article

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