Sensitivity of chemical species to climatic changes in the last 45 kyr as revealed by high-resolution Dome C (East Antarctica) ice-core analysis

Annals of Glaciology

Volumn 39, Issue , 2004, Pages 457-466

  Udisti, Roberto ^a   Becagli, Silvia ^a   Benassai, Silvia ^a   De Angelis, Martine ^b   Hansson, Margareta E ^c   Jouzel, Jean ^b   Schwander, Jacob ^d   Steffensen, Jørgen P ^e   Traversi, Rita ^a   Wolff, Eric ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^f BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCUMULATION RATE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CLIMATE CHANGE; ICE CORE;

ANTARCTICA; ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC; DOME CONCORDIA; EAST ANTARCTICA; WORLD;

EID: 23844499400     PISSN: 02603055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3189/172756404781814096     Document Type: Article

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