Ice cores from Svalbard - Useful archives of past climate and pollution history

Physics and Chemistry of the Earth

Volumn 28, Issue 28-32, 2003, Pages 1217-1228

  Isaksson, Elisabeth ^a   Hermanson, Mark ^b   Hicks, Sheila ^c   Igarashi, Makoto ^d   Kamiyama, Kokichi ^d   Moore, John ^e   Motoyama, Hideaki ^d   Muir, Derek ^f   Pohjola, Veijo ^g   Vaikmäe, Rein ^h   van de Wal, Roderik S W ⁱ   Watanabe, Okitsugu ^d  

^a NORWEGIAN POLAR INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF POLAR RESEARCH   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LAPLAND   (Finland)

^f ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^g UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^h TALLINN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Estonia)

ⁱ UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Climate variability; Ice core chemistry; Organic contaminants; Pollen; Svalbard

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; GLACIERS; GLOBAL WARMING; PERCOLATION (FLUIDS); PESTICIDES; POLLUTION;

ICE CAPS;

SEA ICE;

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; HOLOCENE; ICE CORE; PALEOCLIMATE; POLLEN; POLLUTION;

SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

EID: 0242381334     PISSN: 14747065     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pce.2003.08.053     Document Type: Article

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