Obliquity-paced climate change recorded in Antarctic debris-covered glaciers

Nature Communications

Volumn 8, Issue , 2017, Pages

  MacKay, Sean L ^a   Marchant, David R ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ENGLACIAL PROCESS; GLACIAL DEBRIS; GLACIER MASS BALANCE; MARS; OBLIQUITY; PALEOCLIMATE; SOLAR RADIATION; TOPOGRAPHY;

ANTARCTICA; CLIMATE CHANGE; COLD STRESS; DRIVER; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; GLACIER; HUMAN; INFORMATION CENTER; LATITUDE; MORPHOLOGY; PALEOCLIMATE; SOLAR RADIATION; SUMMER; TOPOGRAPHY;

ANTARCTICA;

EID: 85012225911     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms14194     Document Type: Article

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