Little Ice Age clearly recorded in northern Greenland ice cores

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 1749-1752

  Fischer, H ^a,d   Werner, M ^a,e   Wagenbach, D ^a   Schwager, M ^b   Thorsteinnson, T ^b   Wilhelms, F ^b   Kipfstuhl, J ^b   Sommer, S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISOTOPES; TIME SERIES; ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; GLACIERS; RADIOISOTOPES; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

CHEMICAL CONTENT; CIRCULATION CHANGES; GREENLAND ICE CORES; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; SEA SALT AEROSOL; TEMPERATURE DEVIATION; TEMPERATURE RECONSTRUCTION; VOLCANO ERUPTIONS;

ICE; CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE COOLING;

ICE CORE; LITTLE ICE AGE; PALAEOCLIMATE;

GREENLAND;

EID: 0032523679     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98GL01177     Document Type: Article

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