What controls the isotopic composition of Greenland surface snow?

Climate of the Past

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 377-392

  Steen Larsen, H C ^a,b,c   Masson Delmotte, V ^a   Hirabayashi, M ^d   Winkler, R ^a   Satow, K ^d   Prie F ^a   Bayou, N ^b   Brun, E ^e   Cuffey, K M ^f   Dahl Jensen, D ^c   Dumont, M ^g   Guillevic, M ^a,c   Kipfstuhl, S ^h   Landais, A ^a   Popp, T ^c   Risi, C ⁱ   Steffen, K ^b,j   Stenni, B ^k   Sveinbjornsdottir A E ^l  

^a LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF POLAR RESEARCH   (Japan)

^e CNRS   (France)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

^h ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

ⁱ LABORATOIRE DE MÉTÉOROLOGIE DYNAMIQUE   (France)

^j ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^k UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^l UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR MASS; DATA INTERPRETATION; ICE CORE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; METAMORPHISM; PALEOCLIMATE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RECRYSTALLIZATION; SNOWMELT; STABLE ISOTOPE;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND;

EID: 84896853748     PISSN: 18149324     EISSN: 18149332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/cp-10-377-2014     Document Type: Article

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