Paleoclimates: What do we learn from deep ice cores?

Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change

Volumn 1, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 654-669

  Jouzel, Jean ^a   Masson Delmotte, Valérie ^a  

^a CEA SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; CARBON; GEOCHRONOLOGY; ICE; SEA LEVEL;

CLIMATE VARIABILITY; CLIMATIC INFORMATIONS; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLES; ICE SHEET DYNAMICS; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LAST INTERGLACIAL; SCIENTIFIC RESULTS; SEA LEVEL VARIATIONS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 79956263353     PISSN: 17577780     EISSN: 17577799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wcc.72     Document Type: Article

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