High northern latitude forest fires and vegetation emissions over the last millennium inferred from the chemistry of a central Greenland ice core

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 103, Issue D7, 1998, Pages 8267-8279

  Savarino, Joel ^a,b   Legrand, Michel ^a,b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b LABORATOIRE DE GLACIOLOGIE ET GÉOPHYSIQUE DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS BURNING; EMISSION; ICE CORE; LITTLE ICE AGE; MEDIEVAL WARM PERIOD; VEGETATION;

GREENLAND;

EID: 0031866246     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97JD03748     Document Type: Article

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