Some comments on climatic reconstructions from ice cores drilled in areas of high melt

Journal of Glaciology

Volumn 43, Issue 143, 1997, Pages 90-97

  Koerner, Roy M ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; HOLOCENE; HOLOCENE CLIMATE; ICE CORE; SNOW MELT; SNOWMELT;

ARCTIC;

EID: 0031404280     PISSN: 00221430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022143000002847     Document Type: Review

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