Links between MIS 11 millennial to sub-millennial climate variability and long term trends as revealed by new high resolution EPICA Dome C deuterium data - A comparison with the Holocene

Climate of the Past

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 437-450

  Pol, K ^a   Debret, M ^b   Masson Delmotte, V ^a   Capron, E ^a   Cattani, O ^a   Dreyfus, G ^a,c   Falourd, S ^a   Johnsen, S ^d   Jouzel, J ^a   Landais, A ^a   Minster, B ^a   Stenni, B ^e  

^a LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE ROUEN   (France)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIATION; DEUTERIUM; HOLOCENE; ICE CORE; INTERGLACIAL; LONG-TERM CHANGE; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT;

ANTARCTICA; DOME CONCORDIA; EAST ANTARCTICA;

EID: 79955608607     PISSN: 18149324     EISSN: 18149332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/cp-7-437-2011     Document Type: Article

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