Reconstructing Greenland ice sheet runoff using coralline algae

Geology

Volumn 40, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1095-1098

  Kamenos, Nicholas A ^a   Hoey, Trevor B ^a   Nienow, Peter ^b   Fallick, Anthony E ^c   Claverie, Thomas ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c SCOTTISH UNIVERSITIES ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL GROWTH; EUSTATIC SEA-LEVEL RISE; EXTRACTING INFORMATION; FRESH WATER; GREENLAND; GREENLAND ICE SHEET; ICE SHEET; MARINE TEMPERATURES; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; OCEAN CIRCULATION; ON CURRENTS; RUNOFF DATA; RUNOFF MODEL; SALINITY CHANGE; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SPATIAL EXTENT; SUMMER TEMPERATURE; TIME-SCALES;

ALGAE; DIGITAL STORAGE; GLACIERS; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SEA LEVEL;

RUNOFF;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CORALLINE ALGA; EUSTACY; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; RECONSTRUCTION; RUNOFF; SALINITY; SEA LEVEL CHANGE;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND; GREENLAND ICE SHEET;

ALGAE; CORALLINALES;

EID: 84872157639     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G33405.1     Document Type: Article

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