Plio-pleistocene ice volume, antarctic climate, and the global δ18O record

Science

Volumn 313, Issue 5786, 2006, Pages 492-495

  Raymo, M E ^a   Lisiecki, L E ^a   Nisancioglu, Kerim H ^b  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BJERKNES CENTRE FOR CLIMATE RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; CLIMATOLOGY; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; OCEAN HABITATS; OCEANOGRAPHY;

ANTARCTIC CLIMATE; HEMISPHERES; PLIO-PLEISTOCENE ICE VOLUME;

ICE CONTROL;

ICE; OXYGEN 18;

CLIMATE CONDITIONS; ICE; ICE MARGIN; INSOLATION; ORBITAL FORCING; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PLEISTOCENE; SEA LEVEL;

AGE DETERMINATION; ANTARCTIC CLIMATE; ANTARCTICA; ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; CLIMATE CHANGE; COLD CLIMATE; GLACIAL MASS BALANCE; HEATING; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOCLIMATOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; PLIOCENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROTATION; SEA LEVEL; SIGNAL DETECTION; SUMMER; SUMMER INSOLATION;

ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA;

EID: 33746602206     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1123296     Document Type: Article

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