The CO2 concentration of air trapped in GISP2 ice from the last glacial maximum-holocene transition

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 1-4

  Smith, H J ^a   Wahlen, M ^a   Mastroianni, D ^a   Taylor, K C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; ICE; AIR; CARBON DIOXIDE; CHEMICAL OPERATIONS; SNOW;

ANTARCTICA; ATMOSPHERIC CO; CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS; GREENLAND ICE SHEET; IN-SITU REACTIONS; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; MEASUREMENTS OF; PRECISE DETERMINATIONS;

CARBON DIOXIDE; GLACIERS;

AIR TRAPPED; CARBON DIOXIDE CONCENTRATION; MODERN ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCE;

ATMOSPHERIC CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; GISP2; HOLOCENE; ICE CORE; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM;

EID: 0030703721     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96GL03700     Document Type: Article

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