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| Climate and atmospheric history of the past 420,000 years from the Vostok ice core, Antarctica |
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| Author(s): Petit JR, Jouzel J, Raynaud D, Barkov NI, Barnola JM, Basile I, Bender M, Chappellaz J, Davis M, Delaygue G, Delmotte M, Kotlyakov VM, Legrand M, Lipenkov VY, Lorius C, Pepin L, Ritz C, Saltzman E, Stievenard M |
| Source: NATURE Volume: 399 Issue: 6735 Pages: 429-436 Published: JUN 3 1999 |
| Times Cited: 1,424 References: 52 |
| Abstract: The recent completion of drilling at Vostok station in East Antarctica has allowed the extension of the ice record of atmospheric composition and climate to the past four glacial-interglacial cycles. The succession of changes through each climate cycle and termination was similar, and atmospheric;and climate properties oscillated between stable bounds. Interglacial periods differed in temporal evolution and duration. Atmospheric: concentrations of carbon dioxide and methane correlate well with Antarctic air-temperature throughout the record. Present-day atmospheric burdens of these two important greenhouse gases seem to have been unprecedented during the past 420,000 years. |
| Document Type: Article |
| Language: English |
| Reprint Address: Petit, JR (reprint author), Lab Glaciol & Geophys Environm, CNRS, PB96, F-38402 St Martin Dheres, France |
Addresses:
1. Lab Glaciol & Geophys Environm, CNRS, F-38402 St Martin Dheres, France
2. CEA Saclay, Lab Sci Climat & Environm, CNRS, UMR 1572, F-91191 Gif Sur Yvette, France
3. Arctic & Antarctic Res Inst, St Petersburg 199397, Russia
4. Princeton Univ, Dept Geosci, Princeton, NJ 08544 USA
5. Univ Miami, Rosenstiel Sch Marine & Atmospher Sci, Miami, FL 33149 USA
6. Russian Acad Sci, Inst Geog, Moscow 109017, Russia |
| Publisher: MACMILLAN MAGAZINES LTD, PORTERS SOUTH, 4 CRINAN ST, LONDON N1 9XW, ENGLAND |
| Subject Category: Multidisciplinary Sciences |
| IDS Number: 202TH |
| ISSN: 0028-0836 |
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