To what extent do water isotope records from low accumulation Alpine ice cores reproduce instrumental temperature series?

Tellus, Series B: Chemical and Physical Meteorology

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-17

  Bohleber, Pascal ^a   Wagenbach, Dietmar ^a   Schöner, Wolfgang ^b   Böhm, Reinhard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b ZAMG Zentralanstalt fuer Meteorologie und Geodynamik   (Austria)

Author keywords

Alpine ice cores; Stable water isotopes; Temperature proxy record

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; DECADAL VARIATION; HIGH TEMPERATURE; ICE CORE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; SNOW ACCUMULATION; STABLE ISOTOPE; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; VALLEY GLACIER; CLIMATE VARIATION; GLACIER; PALEOCLIMATE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD;

ALPS; CENTRAL ALPS; MONTE ROSA; PENNINE ALPS;

EID: 84882583690     PISSN: 02806509     EISSN: 16000889     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/tellusb.v65i0.20148     Document Type: Article

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