Holocene century-scale temperature variability from West Greenland lake records

Geology

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 580-584

  Willemse, Nico W ^a   Törnqvist, Torbjörn E ^a,b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOACTIVITY; ICE; LAKES; PRODUCTIVITY; TIME SERIES;

GREENLAND ICE CORES; LAKE PRODUCTIVITIES; NATURAL CLIMATE VARIABILITIES; OXYGEN ISOTOPE RECORDS; SEDIMENTARY RECORDS; SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURES; TEMPERATURE FLUCTUATION; TEMPERATURE VARIABILITY;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; HOLOCENE; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; PALEOCLIMATE;

(WEST); ARCTIC; GREENLAND;

EID: 0344182899     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1999)027<0580:HCSTVF>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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