4 ± 1.5 °C abrupt warming 11,270 yr ago identified from trapped air in Greenland ice

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 268, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 397-407

  Kobashi, Takuro ^a   Severinghaus, Jeffrey P ^a   Barnola, Jean Marc ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

abrupt climate change; Greenland; Holocene; ice core; Preboreal Oscillation

Indexed keywords

PREBOREAL OSCILLATION;

COOLING; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; ICE; ISOTOPES; SNOW;

GLOBAL WARMING;

CLIMATE CHANGE; GLOBAL WARMING; HOLOCENE; ICE CORE; LAST GLACIAL; PREBOREAL; SNOW ACCUMULATION; YOUNGER DRYAS;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND;

EID: 41449114381     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2008.01.032     Document Type: Article

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