N2O and CH4 variations during the last glacial path epoch: Insight into global processes

Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2004, Pages

  Flückiger, Jacqueline ^a   Blunier, Thomas ^a   Stauffer, Bernhard ^a   Chappellaz, Jérôme ^b   Spahni, Renato ^a   Kawamura, Kenji ^a   Schwander, Jakob ^a   Stocker, Thomas F ^a   Dahl Jensen, Dorthe ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b LABORATOIRE DE GLACIOLOGIE ET GÉOPHYSIQUE DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

CH4; Last glacial epoch; N2O

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DANSGAARD-OESCHGER CYCLE; GREENHOUSE GAS; ICE CORE; LAST GLACIAL; METHANE; NITROUS OXIDE;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND;

EID: 17744414477     PISSN: 08866236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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