Unraveling the forcings controlling the vegetation and climate of the best orbital analogues for the present interglacial in SW Europe

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 51, Issue 1-2, 2018, Pages 667-686

  Oliveira, Dulce ^a,b,c,d   Desprat, Stéphanie ^a,b   Yin, Qiuzhen ^e   Naughton, Filipa ^c,d   Trigo, Ricardo ^f   Rodrigues, Teresa ^c,d   Abrantes, Fátima ^c,d   Sánchez Goñi, Maria Fernanda ^a,b  

^a PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^c INSTITUTO PORTUGUÊS DO MAR E DA ATMOSFERA   (Portugal)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALGARVE   (Portugal)

^e UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^f UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

Author keywords

CO2; Insolation; Marine pollen analysis; Mediterranean vegetation; Model data comparison; Orbital Holocene analogues

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIATION; HOLOCENE; INSOLATION; INTERGLACIAL; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALYNOLOGY; VEGETATION;

IBERIAN PENINSULA;

EID: 85031927357     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-017-3948-7     Document Type: Article

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