Glacial/interglacial changes in the isotopes of nitrate from the Greenland Ice Sheet Project 2 (GISP2) ice core

Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2005, Pages

  Hastings, Meredith G ^a,b   Sigman, Daniel M ^a   Steig, Eric J ^b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; GLACIERS; ICE; ISOTOPES; NITRATES; PHOTOCHEMICAL REACTIONS; SNOW;

GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; ICE CORE; ICE SHEET; NITRATE; NITROGEN ISOTOPE;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND; GREENLAND ICE SHEET;

EID: 33244474068     PISSN: 08866236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GB002502     Document Type: Article

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