A tentative reconstruction of the last interglacial and glacial inception in Greenland based on new gas measurements in the Greenland Ice Core Project (GRIP) ice core

Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres

Volumn 108, Issue 18, 2003, Pages

  Landais, Amaelle ^a   Chappellaz, Jérôme ^a   Delmotte, Marc ^a   Jouzel, Jean ^a   Blunier, Thomas ^b   Bourg, Christine ^a   Caillon, Nicolas ^a   Cherrier, Stéphane ^a   Malaizé, Bruno ^a   Masson Delmotte, Valérie ^a   Raynaud, Dominique ^a   Schwander, Jakob ^b   Steffensen, Jørgen Peder ^c  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Firn; Ice cap; Interglacial

Indexed keywords

GRIP; ICE CORE; INTERGLACIAL; LAST GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL; PALEOCLIMATE;

EID: 1342332007     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002jd003147     Document Type: Article

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