Persistent multi-decadal Greenland temperature fluctuation through the last millennium

Climatic Change

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 733-756

  Kobashi, Takuro ^a,b   Severinghaus, Jeffrey P ^a   Barnola, Jean Marc ^c   Kawamura, Kenji ^a,d   Carter, Tara ^e   Nakaegawa, Tosiyuki ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE FOR GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL STRATEGIES   (Japan)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF POLAR RESEARCH   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f JAPAN METEOROLOGICAL AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR BUBBLES; GLOBAL TRENDS; GREENLAND; ICE CORE; ICE SHEET; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; QUASI-PERIODIC; SEALEVEL CHANGE; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; TEMPERATURE EVOLUTION; TEMPERATURE FLUCTUATION; TEMPERATURE VARIABILITY;

ISOTOPES;

TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION;

ARGON ISOTOPE; FUTURE PROSPECT; ICE CORE; ICE SHEET; MELTING; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND;

EID: 77953024456     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-009-9689-9     Document Type: Article

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