Firn accumulation records for the past 1000 years on the basis of dielectric profiling of six cores from Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica

Journal of Glaciology

Volumn 50, Issue 169, 2004, Pages 279-289

  Hofstede, Coen M ^a   van de Wal, Roderik S W ^a   Kaspers, Karsten A ^a   van den Broeke, Michiel ^a   Karlöf, Lars ^b   Winther, Jan Gunnar ^b   Isaksson, Elisabeth ^b   Lappegard, Gante ^c   Mulvaney, Robert ^d   Oerter, Hans ^e   Wilhelms, Frank ^e  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b NORWEGIAN POLAR INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^d BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^e ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHRONOLOGY; ELECTRICAL METHOD; FIRN; ICE CORE; SNOW ACCUMULATION;

ANTARCTICA; ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC; EAST ANTARCTICA; QUEEN MAUD LAND; WORLD;

EID: 20144386512     PISSN: 00221430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3189/172756504781830169     Document Type: Review

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