Relationship between holocene climate variations over Southern Greenland and Eastern Baffin Island and synoptic circulation pattern

Climate of the Past

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 347-359

  Frechette B ^a   De Vernal, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE VARIATION; CLOUD COVER; HOLOCENE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALYNOLOGY; REGIONALISM; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

ARCTIC; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); BAFFIN ISLAND; CANADA; GREENLAND; NUNAVUT;

EID: 77049084061     PISSN: 18149324     EISSN: 18149332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/cp-5-347-2009     Document Type: Article

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