Natural and anthropogenic variations in methane sources during the past two millennia

Nature

Volumn 490, Issue 7418, 2012, Pages 85-88

  Sapart, C J ^a   Monteil, G ^a   Prokopiou, M ^a   Van De Wal, R S W ^a   Kaplan, J O ^b   Sperlich, P ^c   Krumhardt, K M ^b   Van Der Veen, C ^a   Houweling, S ^a,d   Krol, M C ^a   Blunier, T ^c   Sowers, T ^e   Martinerie, P ^f   Witrant, E ^f   Dahl Jensen, D ^c   Rockmann T ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^d SRON NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SPACE RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^e PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f VERIMAG   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOSSIL FUEL; METHANE;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CARBON ISOTOPE; GREENHOUSE GAS; ICE CORE; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; ISOTOPIC RATIO; METHANE; TIMESCALE;

ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; GREENLAND; LAND USE; OXIDATION; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE; TIME;

ATMOSPHERE; BIOMASS; CARBON ISOTOPES; CLIMATE CHANGE; FIRES; GREENLAND; HISTORY, 15TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 16TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 17TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 18TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HISTORY, MEDIEVAL; HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; ICE; METHANE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; ROMAN WORLD;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND;

EID: 84867029855     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature11461     Document Type: Article

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