Sources of Holocene variability of oxygen isotopes in paleoclimate archives

Climate of the Past

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 441-455

  LeGrande, A N ^a   Schmidt, G A ^a  

^a NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GREENHOUSE GAS; HOLOCENE; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; ICE CORE; ICE SHEET; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCLIMATE; WATER VAPOR;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND; SUMMIT;

EID: 75649090565     PISSN: 18149324     EISSN: 18149332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/cp-5-441-2009     Document Type: Article

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