Delayed build-up of Arctic ice sheets during 400,000-year minima in insolation variability

Nature

Volumn 490, Issue 7420, 2012, Pages 393-396

  Hao, Qingzhen ^a   Wang, Luo ^a   Oldfield, Frank ^b   Peng, Shuzhen ^c   Qin, Li ^d   Song, Yang ^a,e   Xu, Bing ^a   Qiao, Yansong ^f   Bloemendal, Jan ^b   Guo, Zhengtang ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c TAISHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d China Three Gorges Museum   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^f INSTITUTE OF MINERAL RESOURCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ICE; OXYGEN;

ASTRONOMY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE VARIATION; ICE SHEET; INSOLATION; INTERGLACIAL; LATITUDE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; SNOW ACCUMULATION; VOLUME;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC CLIMATE; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; CHRONOLOGY; ICEBERG; LATITUDE; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SUMMER; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WINTER;

ARCTIC REGIONS; CEREALS; CHINA; GLOBAL WARMING; HISTORY, ANCIENT; ICE COVER; OXYGEN; OXYGEN ISOTOPES; PARTICLE SIZE; RAIN; SEASONS; SIBERIA; SUNLIGHT; WIND;

ARCTIC; CHINA; LOESS PLATEAU;

EID: 84867690584     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature11493     Document Type: Article

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