Timing of the Antarctic Cold Reversal and the atmospheric CO2 increase with respect to the Younger Dryas event

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 21, 1997, Pages 2683-2686

  Blunier, T ^a   Schwander, J ^a   Stauffer, B ^a   Stocker, T ^a   Dallenbach A ^a   Indermuhle A ^a   Tschumi, J ^a   Chappellaz, J ^b   Raynaud, D ^b   Barnola, J M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; CARBON DIOXIDE; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; METHANE; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ICE; SYNCHRONIZATION;

ANTARCTIC COLD REVERSAL; YOUNGER DRYAS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ANTARCTIC COLD REVERSAL; CLIMATE CHANGE; PALAEOCLIMATE CHANGE; YOUNGER DRYAS;

ANTARCTIC COLD REVERSALS; ATMOSPHERIC METHANES; GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGES; ICE CORE RECORDS; POLAR ICE SHEETS; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; TIME RESOLUTION; WEALTH OF INFORMATION;

EID: 0031279012     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL02658     Document Type: Article

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