The Alpine LGM in the boreal ice-sheets game

Scientific Reports

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Monegato, Giovanni ^a   Scardia, Giancarlo ^b   Hajdas, Irka ^c   Rizzini, Francesca ^d   Piccin, Andrea ^e  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d Dept of Infrastructure Design and Traffic   (Italy)

^e Regione Lombardia   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; CHRONOLOGY; FEEDING; GLACIER; ICE SHEET; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MODEL; MOISTURE; PRECIPITATION; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 85019842739     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-02148-7     Document Type: Article

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