Climatic and glaciological information inferred from air-content measurements of a Law Dome (East Antarctica) ice core

Journal of Glaciology

Volumn 45, Issue 150, 1999, Pages 255-263

  Delmotte, Marc ^a,b   Raynaud, Dominique ^a   Morgan, Vin ^c   Jouzel, Jean ^b  

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

^b LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^c ANTARCTIC CLIMATE AND ECOSYSTEMS COOPERATIVE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR SAMPLING; GLACIAL HISTORY; ICE CORE; PALEOCLIMATE;

ANTARCTICA; LAW DOME;

EID: 0032731069     PISSN: 00221430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3189/s0022143000001751     Document Type: Article

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