Interpreting temperature information from ice cores along the Antarctic Peninsula: ERA40 analysis

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 18, 2009, Pages

  Sime, Louise C ^a   Marshall, Gareth J ^a   Mulvaney, Robert ^a   Thomas, Elizabeth R ^a  

^a BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

THERMAL EFFECTS;

ANNUAL MEAN; ANNUAL MEAN TEMPERATURES; ANTARCTIC PENINSULA; ICE CORE; ISOTOPIC SIGNALS; ISOTOPIC VARIATIONS; JAMES ROSS ISLAND; MULTI CORE; PHYSICALLY BASED; TEMPERATURE CHANGES; TEMPERATURE INFORMATION; TEMPERATURE SIGNAL;

ISOTOPES;

CLIMATE MODELING; DATA SET; ICE CORE; ISLAND; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; RECONSTRUCTION; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY;

ANTARCTIC PENINSULA; ANTARCTICA; WEST ANTARCTICA;

EID: 72149123914     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL038982     Document Type: Article

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