Millennial and sub-millennial scale climatic variations recorded in polar ice cores over the last glacial period

Climate of the Past

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 345-365

  Capron, E ^a   Landais, A ^a   Chappellaz, J ^b   Schilt, A ^c   Buiron, D ^b   Dahl Jensen, D ^d   Johnsen, S J ^d   Jouzel, J ^a   Lemieux Dudon, B ^b   Loulergue, L ^b   Leuenberger, M ^c   Masson Delmotte, V ^a   Meyer, H ^e   Oerter, H ^e   Stenni, B ^f  

^a DIF   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

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

^f UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIATION; GLOBAL WARMING; GRIP; ICE SHEET; INTERSTADIAL; LAST GLACIAL; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; PALEOCLIMATE; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; TIMESCALE;

ANTARCTICA; ARCTIC; EAST ANTARCTICA; GREENLAND; QUEEN MAUD LAND;

EID: 84860389688     PISSN: 18149324     EISSN: 18149332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/cp-6-345-2010     Document Type: Article

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