Long-term winter warming trend in the Siberian Arctic during the mid- to late Holocene

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 122-125

  Meyer, Hanno ^a   Opel, Thomas ^a   Laepple, Thomas ^a   Dereviagin, Alexander Yu ^b   Hoffmann, Kirstin ^a,c   Werner, Martin ^a  

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

^b MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELING; ESTIMATION METHOD; HOLOCENE; ORBITAL FORCING; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; WARMING; WINTER;

ARCTIC OCEAN; LENA DELTA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SAKHA; SIBERIA;

EID: 84923218391     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo2349     Document Type: Article

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