Canadian arctic sea ice reconstructed from bromine in the Greenland NEEM ice core

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Spolaor, Andrea ^a,b   Vallelonga, Paul ^c   Turetta, Clara ^b   Maffezzoli, Niccolò ^c   Cozzi, Giulio ^b   Gabrieli, Jacopo ^b   Barbante, Carlo ^a,b   Goto Azuma, Kumiko ^d   Saiz Lopez, Alfonso ^e   Cuevas, Carlos A ^e   Dahl Jensen, Dorthe ^c  

^a CA' FOSCARI UNIVERSITY OF VENICE   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF POLAR RESEARCH   (Japan)

^e INSTITUTO DE QUÍMICA FÍSICA ROCASOLANO   (Spain)

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EID: 84988650347     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep33925     Document Type: Article

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