Reconstructing the last interglacial at Summit, Greenland: Insights from GISP2

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 113, Issue 35, 2016, Pages 9710-9715

  Yau, Audrey M ^a   Bender, Michael L ^a,b   Robinson, Alexander ^c,d,e   Brook, Edward J ^f  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^d INSTITUTO DE GEOCIENCIAS   (Spain)

^e POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^f OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Greenland ice sheet; Ice cores; Last interglacial; Sea level rise

Indexed keywords

ICE; NITROGEN 15; OXYGEN; OXYGEN 18;

AIR; ARTICLE; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; GREENLAND; INTERGLACIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA LEVEL; SIMULATION; WARMING;

EID: 84984679651     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1524766113     Document Type: Article

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