Atmospheric science: Atmospheric methane and nitrous oxide of the late pleistocene from Antarctic Ice Cores

Science

Volumn 310, Issue 5752, 2005, Pages 1317-1321

  Spahni, Renato ^a   Chappellaz, Jérôme ^b   Stocker, Thomas F ^a   Loulergue, Laetitia ^b   Hausammann, Gregor ^a   Kawamura, Kenji ^a,d   Flückiger, Jacqueline ^a,e   Schwander, Jakob ^a   Raynaud, Dominique ^b   Masson Delmotte, Valérie ^c   Jouzel, Jean ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); GLACIERS; METHANE;

ATMOSPHERIC METHANES; HOLOCENE VALUES; INTERGLACIALS; NITROUS OXIDES;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY;

METHANE; NITROUS OXIDE;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; METHANE; NITROUS OXIDE; PALEOATMOSPHERE; PLEISTOCENE;

ANTARCTICA; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; ATMOSPHERE; CLIMATE CHANGE; GREENHOUSE GAS; HOLOCENE; ICE CORE RECORD; METHANOGENESIS; PLEISTOCENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANTARCTICA;

EID: 28144439198     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1120132     Document Type: Article

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