Little Ice Age climate and oceanic conditions of the Ross Sea, Antarctica from a coastal ice core record

Climate of the Past

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1223-1238

  Rhodes, R H ^a,b,e   Bertler, N A N ^a,b   Baker, J A ^a   Steen Larsen, H C ^c   Sneed, S B ^d   Morgenstern, U ^b   Johnsen, S J ^c  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^b GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

^e OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOGENIC MATERIAL; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; CLIMATE FEEDBACK; CLIMATE VARIATION; GLACIOCHEMISTRY; GLOBAL CLIMATE; ICE CORE; LITTLE ICE AGE; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; RECONSTRUCTION; SULFUR;

ANTARCTICA; ROSS SEA; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 84875826566     PISSN: 18149324     EISSN: 18149332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/cp-8-1223-2012     Document Type: Article

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