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Response of a zonal climate-ice sheet model to the orbital perturbations during the Quaternary ice ages1 Cover

Response of a zonal climate-ice sheet model to the orbital perturbations during the Quaternary ice ages1

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|Jan 1980

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Language: English
Page range: 301 - 319
Submitted on: Oct 24, 1979
Accepted on: Jan 8, 1980
Published on: Jan 1, 1980
Published by: Stockholm University Press
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