Timing of abrupt climate change at the end of the younger dryas interval from thermally fractionated gases in polar ice

Nature

Volumn 391, Issue 6663, 1998, Pages 141-146

  Severinghaus, Jeffrey P ^a   Sowers, Todd ^b   Brook, Edward J ^c   Alley, Richard B ^b   Bender, Michael L ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ICE; NITROGEN; SNOW;

ATMOSPHERIC METHANE; GAS ISOTOPE; ICE CORE RECORD; PALAEOCLIMATE CHANGE; WARMING; YOUNGER DRYAS;

ARTICLE; CLIMATE; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; GEOGRAPHY; GREENLAND; NATURAL RADIOACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0032495498     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/34346     Document Type: Article

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