Similar meltwater contributions to glacial sea level changes from Antarctic and northern ice sheets

Nature

Volumn 430, Issue 7003, 2004, Pages 1016-1021

  Rohling, Eelco J ^a   Marsh, Robert ^a   Wells, Neil C ^a   Siddall, Mark ^a,b   Edwards, Nell R ^b  

^a NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GLACIERS; ISOTOPES; OCEANOGRAPHY; OXYGEN; SEA ICE;

DEGLACIATION; MELTWATER;

SEA LEVEL;

ICE; OXYGEN 18; SEA WATER;

ICE SHEET; ICE-RAFTED DEBRIS; MELTWATER; PALEOCLIMATE; QUATERNARY; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; VOLUME CHANGE;

ANTARCTICA; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; BENTHOS; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FORAMINIFER; FOSSIL; GLACIER; GREENLAND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA; SEDIMENT;

ANIMALS; ANTARCTIC REGIONS; ARCTIC REGIONS; CLIMATE; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; GREENLAND; ICE; OCEANS AND SEAS; OXYGEN ISOTOPES; PLANKTON; SEAWATER; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS;

ANTARCTICA; ARCTIC OCEAN;

FORAMINIFERA;

EID: 4344679404     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02859     Document Type: Article

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