Homogeneous climate variability across East Antarctica over the past three glacial cycles

Nature

Volumn 422, Issue 6931, 2003, Pages 509-512

  Watanabe, O ^a   Jouzel, J ^b   Johnsen, S ^c,d   Parrenin, F ^b,e   Shoji, H ^f   Yoshida, N ^g,h  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF POLAR RESEARCH   (Japan)

^b DIF   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^d REYKJAVIK UNIVERSITY   (Iceland)

^e CNRS   (France)

^f KITAMI INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^g TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^h JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL);

GLACIAL CYCLES;

CONSERVATION;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CLIMATE VARIATION; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; HOMOGENEITY; PLEISTOCENE;

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANTARCTICA; ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; GEOGRAPHY; GLACIAL MASS BALANCE; ICE CORE RECORD; OCEAN ENVIRONMENT; PALEOCLIMATOLOGY; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ANTARCTICA;

EID: 0037417278     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01525     Document Type: Article

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