Geological records of changes in wind regime over south Greenland since the Medieval Warm Period: A tentative reconstruction

Polar Record

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-8

  Kuijpers, Antoon ^a   Mikkelsen, Naja ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANTARCTIC OSCILLATION; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; EOLIAN DEPOSIT; EROSION; FOEHN; GEOLOGICAL RECORD; LITTLE ICE AGE; MARINE SEDIMENT; MEDIEVAL WARM PERIOD; PALEOCLIMATE; RECONSTRUCTION; SEDIMENT CORE; WIND FORCING;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND;

EID: 67649643467     PISSN: 00322474     EISSN: 14753057     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0032247408007699     Document Type: Article

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