Climate and atmospheric history of the past 420,000 years from the Vostok ice core, Antarctica

Nature

Volumn 399, Issue 6735, 1999, Pages 429-436

  Petit, J R ^a   Jouzel, J ^b   Raynaud, D ^a   Barkov, N I ^c   Barnola, J M ^a   Basile, I ^a   Bender, M ^d   Chappellaz, J ^a   Davis, M ^e   Delaygue, G ^b   Delmotte, M ^a   Kotiyakov, V M ^f   Legrand, M ^a   Lipenkov, V Y ^c   Lorius, C ^a   Pepin L ^a   Ritz, C ^a   Saltzman, E ^e   Stievenard, M ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

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

^c ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^d PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^f INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; ICE; METHANE;

GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; ICE CORE; PALEOATMOSPHERE; PALEOCLIMATE; QUATERNARY;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ANTARCTICA; ATMOSPHERIC DIFFUSION; COLD CLIMATE; EVOLUTION; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ANTARCTICA;

EID: 0033519676     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/20859     Document Type: Review

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