Climate and atmospheric history of the past 420,000 years from the Vostok ice core

• Main Authors: J R Petit, J Jouzel, D Raynaud, N I Barkov, J.-M Barnola, I Basile, M Bender, J Chappellaz, M Davisk, G Delaygue, M Delmotte, V M Kotlyakov, M Legrand, V Y Lipenkov, C Lorius, L Pé, C Ritz, E Saltzmank, M Stievenard
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1999
• Subjects: Antarctic; East Antarctica; Vostok Station; Antarc*; Antarctica; ice core
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.1050.2725

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. Inter...