Field activities of the "Snow Impurity and Glacial Microbe effects on abrupt warming in the Arctic" (SIGMA) Project in Greenland in 2011-2013

Bulletin of Glaciological Research

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 3-20

  Aoki, Teruo ^a   Matoba, Sumito ^b   Uetake, Jun ^c,d   Takeuchi, Nozomu ^e   Motoyama, Hideaki ^c  

^a METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF POLAR RESEARCH   (Japan)

^d Transdisciplinary Research Integration Center   (Japan)

^e CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Glacial microbes; Greenland; Qaanaaq; SIGMA; Snow impurities

Indexed keywords

EID: 84906100349     PISSN: 13453807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5331/bgr.32.3     Document Type: Article

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