A promising location in Patagonia for paleoclimate and paleoenvironmental reconstructions revealed by a shallow firn core from Monte San Valentín (Northern Patagonia Icefield, Chile)

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 113, Issue 16, 2008, Pages

  Vimeux, Françoise ^a,b   de Angelis, Martine ^c   Ginot, Patrick ^a,c   Magand, Olivier ^c   Casassa, Gino ^d   Pouyaud, Bernard ^a   Falourd, Sonia ^b   Johnsen, Sigfus ^e  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^b DIF   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d CENTRO DE ESTUDIOS CIENTÍFICOS CECS   (Chile)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC DENSITY; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ICE; SNOW; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE VARIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FIRN; ICE CORE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; RADIONUCLIDE; RECONSTRUCTION; SNOW ACCUMULATION; AIR MASS; ANNUAL VARIATION; ICE FIELD; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS;

PATAGONIA; SOUTH AMERICA; MONTE SAN VALENTIN;

ATMOSPHERICS; CLIMATOLOGY; ISOTOPES; RADIOISOTOPES; RESERVOIRS (WATER); SOLVENTS;

ACCUMULATION RATES; AIR MASS; ANTARCTIC CLIMATE; CHEMICAL MARKERS; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; HIGH RESOLUTION; ICE CORE; INTERANNUAL; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; ISOTOPIC SIGNALS; MIDLATITUDES; PALEOCLIMATES; PALEOENVIRONMENTAL RECONSTRUCTION; PATAGONIA; POLAR AREAS; SHALLOW FIRN CORE; SNOW ACCUMULATION; SNOW DENSITY; SOURCE AREA; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; TIME-SCALES; TROPICAL REGIONS; WATER PERCOLATION; WEALTH OF INFORMATION;

SNOW;

EID: 56249114164     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007JD009502     Document Type: Article

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