A biomarker-based reconstruction of sea ice conditions for the Barents Sea in recent centuries

Holocene

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 637-643

  Vare, Lindsay L ^a   Massé, Guillaume ^a,b   Belt, Simon T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

Author keywords

Barents Sea; Biomarker; Climate; IP25; Proxy; Sea ice

Indexed keywords

ACCUMULATION RATE; BIOMARKER; BULK DENSITY; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CORE ANALYSIS; GEOCHEMISTRY; ICE FREE CORRIDOR; LEAD ISOTOPE; MARINE SEDIMENT; NINETEENTH CENTURY; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PARAMETERIZATION; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RECONSTRUCTION; SEA ICE; SEDIMENTATION; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TIMESCALE; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON; WATER DEPTH;

ARCTIC OCEAN; BARENTS SEA;

EID: 77953430599     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: 14770911     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683609355179     Document Type: Article

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