Ice core melt features in relation to Antarctic coastal climate

Antarctic Science

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 271-278

  Kaczmarska, Marzena ^a,e   Isaksson, Elisabeth ^a   Karlöf, Lars ^a,b   Brandt, Ola ^a   Winther, Jan Gunnar ^a   Van De Wal, Roderik S W ^c   Van Den Broeke, Michiel ^c   Johnsen, Sigfus J ^d  

^a NORWEGIAN POLAR INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^b Research and Development   (Norway)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate proxies; Ice layers; Light transmittance; Melting; Stratigraphy

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE EFFECT; COASTAL ZONE; ICE CORE; LIGHT INTENSITY; MELTING; METEOROLOGY; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; STRATIGRAPHY; SUMMER; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TIMESCALE;

ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA; HALLEY STATION; QUEEN MAUD LAND; SYOWA STATION;

EID: 33744960536     PISSN: 09541020     EISSN: 13652079     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0954102006000319     Document Type: Article

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