Seasonality of airmass pathways to coastal Antarctica: Ramifications for interpreting high-resolution ice core records

Journal of Climate

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 2065-2076

  Sinclair, Kate E ^a   Bertler, Nancy A N ^b   Trompetter, W J ^a   Baisden, W T ^a  

^a GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

^b VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL TEMPERATURES; ANTARCTIC ICE CORE; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; BACK TRAJECTORIES; EAST ANTARCTICA; ICE CORE RECORDS; PALEOCLIMATE RECORDS; STABLE ISOTOPE DATA;

CLIMATOLOGY; DIGITAL STORAGE; ISOTOPES; SNOW; TRAJECTORIES;

ICE;

AIR MASS; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ICE CORE; LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; PALEOCLIMATE; SEASONALITY; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY;

ANTARCTICA; ROSS SEA; SOUTHERN OCEAN; WEST ANTARCTICA;

EID: 84875824069     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00167.1     Document Type: Article

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