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last glacial maximum: References & Edit History

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  • Anna Dubey
    Anna Dubey is a freelance writer at Encyclopædia Britannica. 

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Add new Web site: Nature - npj Climate and Atmospheric Science - Westerly and Laurentide ice sheet fluctuations during the last glacial maximum. Nov 25, 2024
Add new Web site: PNAS - Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences - Closing the sea level budget at the Last Glacial Maximum. Oct 15, 2024
Add new Web site: NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory - The climate of the Last Glacial Maximum: Results from a coupled atmosphere-ocean general circulation model. Aug 09, 2024
Add new Web site: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution - The Last Glacial Maximum. Jun 11, 2024
Add new Web site: PNAS - Dynamics of the last glacial maximum Antarctic ice-sheet and its response to ocean forcing. Oct 23, 2023
Media added. Aug 21, 2023
New article added. Jul 22, 2023
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