Temperature and precipitation signal in two Alpine ice cores over the period 1961-2001

Climate of the Past

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1093-1108

  Mariani, I ^a,b   Eichler, A ^a,b   Jenk, T M ^a,b   Bronnimann S ^b   Auchmann, R ^b   Leuenberger, M C ^b   Schwikowski, M ^a,b  

^a PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; ANNUAL VARIATION; ANOMALY; ICE CORE; ISOTOPIC RATIO; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SNOW ACCUMULATION; STABLE ISOTOPE; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; TEMPORAL PERIOD;

EUROPE; FIESCHERHORN GLACIER; GRENZ GLACIER; SWITZERLAND; VALAIS;

EID: 84901988551     PISSN: 18149324     EISSN: 18149332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/cp-10-1093-2014     Document Type: Article

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