Accumulation in Svalbard glaciers deduced from ice cores with nuclear tests and Chernobyl reference layers

Polar Research

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 315-321

  Pinglot, Jean Francis ^a   Pourchet, Michel ^a   Lefauconnier, Bernard ^b   Hagen, Jon Ove ^c   Isaksson, Elisabeth ^d   Vaikmäe, Rein ^e   Kamiyama, Kokichi ^f  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b ADREA   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^d NORWEGIAN POLAR INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^e TALLINN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Estonia)

^f NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF POLAR RESEARCH   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; GLACIER MASS BALANCE; ICE CORE; NUCLEAR WEAPONS TESTING;

SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

EID: 0033506397     PISSN: 08000395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-8369.1999.tb00309.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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