A note on the relationship between ice core methane concentrations and insolation

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 23, 2004, Pages 1-4

  Schmidt, Gavin A ^a   Shindell, Drew T ^a   Harder, Susan ^b  

^a NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

0325 Atmospheric Composition and Structure: Evolution of the atmosphere; 1610 Global Change: Atmosphere (0315, 0325); 3344 Meteorology and Atmospheric Dynamics: Paleoclimatology

Indexed keywords

GAS EMISSIONS; ICE; POLLUTION CONTROL; RIVERS; WETLANDS;

ICE CORE METHANE; INSOLATION; METHANE CONCENTRATIONS; RIVER DELTA;

METHANE;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; HOLOCENE; ICE CORE; INSOLATION; METHANE; PRECESSION;

EID: 16644391378     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL021083     Document Type: Article

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