Increasing North Atlantic climate variability recorded in a central Greenland ice core

Polar Geography

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 119-131

  Alley, R B ^a   Mayewski, P A ^b   Saltzman, E S ^c,d  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^d NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; HEAT TRANSFER; HOLOCENE; ICE CORE; OCEANIC CIRCULATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0033364530     PISSN: 1088937X     EISSN: 19390513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10889379909377669     Document Type: Article

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