Amplitude variations of 1470-year climate oscillations during the last 100,000 years linked to fluctuations of continental ice mass

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 22, 1999, Pages 3385-3388

  Schulz, Michael ^b   Berger, Wolfgang H ^a   Sarnthein, Michael ^b   Grootes, Pieter M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; OXYGEN; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; SEA LEVEL;

CONTINENTAL ICE MASS;

GEOPHYSICS; ICE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; HOLOCENE; ICE CORE; ICE SHEET; INTERSTADIAL; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; SEA LEVEL CHANGE;

AMPLITUDE VARIATIONS; CLIMATE OSCILLATION; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; LARGE AMPLITUDE; OXYGEN ISOTOPE RECORDS; SEA LEVEL VARIATIONS; SHORT TIME INTERVALS; THRESHOLD LEVELS;

EID: 0033570579     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL006069     Document Type: Article

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