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Geographical coverage note: World
Temporal coverage: The last 400 000 years
- NCEI Data and Products (NOAA)
- Austria
- Belgium
- Bulgaria
- Cyprus
- Czechia
- Denmark
- Earth
- Estonia
- Finland
- France
- Germany
- Greece
- Hungary
- Ireland
- Italy
- Latvia
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
- Malta
- Netherlands
- Poland
- Portugal
- Romania
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- Spain
- Sweden
- United Kingdom
Methodology
NAME OF DATA SET: Vostok Ice Core Data for 420,000 Years LAST UPDATE: 11/2001 (Original Receipt by WDC Paleo). IGBP PAGES/WDCA CONTRIBUTION SERIES NUMBER: 2001-076 SUGGESTED DATA CITATION: Petit, J.R., et al., 2001, Vostok Ice Core Data for 420,000 Years, IGBP PAGES/World Data Center for Paleoclimatology Data Contribution Series #2001-076. NOAA/NGDC Paleoclimatology Program, Boulder CO, USA. Data published at http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/paleo/icecore/antarctica/vostok/vostok_co2.html
See further: Petit, J.R., Jouzel, J., Raynaud, D., Barkov, N.I., Barnola, J.-M., Basile, I., Benders, M., Chappellaz, J., Davis, M., Delayque, G., Delmotte, M., Kotlyakov, V.M., Legrand, M., Lipenkov, V.Y., Lorius, C., Pepin, L., Ritz, C., Saltzman, E. and Stievenard, M. (1999): 'Climate and atmospheric history of the past 420,000 years from the Vostok ice core, Antarctica', Nature, 399, pp. 429-36.