Dual modes of the carbon cycle since the Last Glacial Maximum

Nature

Volumn 400, Issue 6741, 1999, Pages 248-250

  Smith, H Jesse ^a   Fischer, H ^a,b   Wahlen, M ^a   Mastroianni, D ^a   Deck, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON DIOXIDE ENRICHMENT; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; PALEOCLIMATE; QUATERNARY;

ANTARCTICA; ARCTIC CLIMATE; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; CARBON DIOXIDE FIXATION; CLIMATE; COOLING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA; WARMING;

ANTARCTIC REGIONS; ATMOSPHERE; CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON ISOTOPES; CLIMATE; COLD CLIMATE; EVOLUTION, PLANETARY; ICE; SEAWATER;

ANTARCTICA;

EID: 0033566149     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/22291     Document Type: Article

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