Oxygen 18/16 variability in Greenland snow and ice with 10-3- to 105-year time resolution

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 102, Issue C12, 1997, Pages 26455-26470

  Grootes, P M ^a,b   Stuiver, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE FORCING; GISP2; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALAEOCLIMATE; QUATERNARY CLIMATE;

EID: 0031448569     PISSN: 21699275     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97JC00880     Document Type: Article

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