Identification of paleo Arctic winter sea ice limits and the marginal ice zone: Optimised biomarker-based reconstructions of late Quaternary Arctic sea ice

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 431, Issue , 2015, Pages 127-139

  Belt, Simon T ^a   Cabedo Sanz, Patricia ^a   Smik, Lukas ^a   Navarro Rodriguez, Alba ^a   Berben, Sarah M P ^b,e   Knies, Jochen ^b,c   Husum, Katrine ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^c GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NORWAY   (Norway)

^d NORWEGIAN POLAR INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^e BJERKNES CENTRE FOR CLIMATE RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

Arctic; Biomarker; IP25; Paleoclimate; Proxy; Sea ice

Indexed keywords

BIOMARKERS; CLIMATE CHANGE; LOCATION; PHYTOPLANKTON; SEA ICE; SEDIMENTS;

ARCTIC; HIGHLY BRANCHED ISOPRENOID; ICE-FREE CONDITIONS; NORTHERN BARENTS SEA; OCEANOGRAPHIC CONDITIONS; PALEOCLIMATES; PROXY; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE;

ICE;

BIOMARKER; CORE ANALYSIS; DIATOM; HOLOCENE; ICE COVER; ICE RETREAT; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; MARGINAL ICE ZONE; PALEOCLIMATE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; QUATERNARY; SEA ICE;

ARCTIC OCEAN; BARENTS SEA; NORWEGIAN SEA;

BACILLARIOPHYTA;

EID: 84942807940     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2015.09.020     Document Type: Article

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