Ice core evidence for significant 100-year regional warming on the Antarctic Peninsula

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 20, 2009, Pages

  Thomas, E R ^a   Dennis, P F ^b   Bracegirdle, T J ^a   Franzke, C ^a  

^a BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTIC PENINSULA; CLIMATE FORCINGS; COUPLED CLIMATE MODEL; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGHLY-CORRELATED; ICE CORE; PRE-INDUSTRIAL; REGIONAL WARMING; STABLE ISOTOPES; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; TEMPERATURE RECONSTRUCTION; TEMPERATURE TRENDS; WEST COAST; WESTERN ANTARCTIC PENINSULA;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ISOTOPES;

CLIMATE CONTROL;

CLIMATE FORCING; CLIMATE MODELING; DATA SET; ICE CORE; RECONSTRUCTION; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SATELLITE IMAGERY; STABLE ISOTOPE; WARMING;

ANTARCTIC PENINSULA; ANTARCTICA; WEST ANTARCTICA;

EID: 72149109529     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL040104     Document Type: Article

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