Reconstruction of a continuous high-resolution CO 2 record over the past 20 million years

Climate of the Past

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1459-1469

  Van De Wal, R S W ^a   De Boer, B ^a   Lourens, L J ^b   Kohler P ^c   Bintanja, R ^d  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^d ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENTHOS; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); COOLING; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; GLACIATION; ICE CORE; ICE SHEET; INVERSE ANALYSIS; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PALEOCLIMATE; PLEISTOCENE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RECONSTRUCTION; SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84255187183     PISSN: 18149324     EISSN: 18149332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/cp-7-1459-2011     Document Type: Article

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