Spatial variability of Antarctic surface snow glaciochemistry: Implications for palaeoatmospheric circulation reconstructions

Antarctic Science

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 105-118

  Kreutz, Karl J ^a,b   Mayewski, Paul A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Glaciochemistry; Ice cores; Palaeoclimate; Siple Dome; Surface snow; West Antarctica

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; GEOCHEMISTRY; ICE CORE; PALEOATMOSPHERE; SNOW;

ANTARCTICA;

EID: 0033101480     PISSN: 09541020     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0954102099000140     Document Type: Article

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