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Mechanisms behind climate history<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Previous chapter: Climate details<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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Current chapter: Mechanisms<\/strong><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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Literatur<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

Main literature for preparing this presentation:<\/p>\n

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Further links:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Potsdam-Institut f\u00fcr Klimafolgenforschung<\/a> – Wuppertal-Institut f\u00fcr Klima, Umwelt, Energie<\/a> – MPI f\u00fcr Meteorologie<\/a> – Helmholtz Klima Dialogplattform<\/a> – Deutsches Klima Konsortium<\/a> – Intergovernmental panel on climate change<\/a><\/p>\n

Nature Sustainability<\/a> – Global Change Biology<\/a> – Current Climate Change Reports<\/a> – Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems<\/a> – Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change<\/a> – Global Environmental Change<\/a> – npj Climate and Atmospheric Science<\/a> – Global Ecology and Biogeography<\/a> – Global Biogeochemical Cycles<\/a> – Climate of the Past<\/a><\/p>\n

Copyright:<\/strong><\/p>\n

All images of this presentation are subject to a Creative Commons Atribution 4.0 International Licence<\/a>. In case of using several image, a single citation is sufficient.<\/p>\n

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