Chemical compositions of solid particles present in the Greenland NEEM ice core over the last 110,000 years

Journal of Geophysical Research

Volumn 120, Issue 18, 2015, Pages 9789-9813

  Oyabu, Ikumi ^a,b   Iizuka, Yoshinori ^a   Fischer, Hubertus ^c   Schüpbach, Simon ^c   Gfeller, Gideon ^c   Svensson, Anders ^d   Fukui, Manabu ^a   Steffensen, Jørgen Peder ^d   Hansson, Margareta ^b  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLEROD; BOLLING; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; DRILLING; EXTRACTION METHOD; HOLOCENE; ICE CORE; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; PARTICLE SIZE; SOLID; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SPECIATION (CHEMISTRY); SUBLIMATION; YOUNGER DRYAS;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND; GREENLAND ICE SHEET;

EID: 84944931241     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: 21562202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015JD023290     Document Type: Article

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