Review antarctic blue ice areas - Towards extracting palaeoclimate information

Antarctic Science

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 99-115

  Sinisalo, Anna ^a   Moore, John C ^a,b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAPLAND   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^c BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

dating methods; ice cores; ice flow modelling; radar

Indexed keywords

CARBON ISOTOPE; CLIMATE VARIATION; FLOW MODELING; GEOMORPHOLOGY; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; GREENHOUSE GAS; ICE CORE; ICE FLOW; ICE SHEET; LAST GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL; PALEOCLIMATE; RADAR IMAGERY; SEA ICE; TEPHROCHRONOLOGY;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 77954244875     PISSN: 09541020     EISSN: 13652079     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0954102009990691     Document Type: Review

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