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Kilimanjaro - Oxygen Isotope, Ion, and Dust Data and Description
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Thompson, L.G., E. Mosley-Thompson, M.E. Davis, K.A. Henderson, H.H. Brecher, V.S. Zagorodnov, T.A. Mashiotta, P.-N. Lin, V.N. Mikhalenko, D.R. Hardy, and J. Beer. 2002. Kilimanjaro ice core records: evidence of Holocene climate change in tropical Africa. Science 298:5593, 18 October 2002.
Data Coverage North: -3.08 * South: -3.08
East: 37.35 * West: 37.35
Altitude: 5893 m

Start Year: -9650 AD   End Year: 2000 AD

Data:     Please Cite Data Contributors!
  trop/kilimanjaro/kilimanjaro.txt

Summary:

Records of past temperature, precipitation, atmospheric trace gases, and other aspects of climate and environment derived from ice cores drilled on glaciers and ice caps around the world. Parameter keywords describe what was measured in this data set. Additional summary information can be found in the abstracts of papers listed in the data set citations.
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Parameters:

delta 18O PDB (per mille); magnesium ion concentration (micrograms/kilogram); nitrate ion concentration (micrograms/kilogram); ammonium ion concentration (micrograms/kilogram); sodium ion concentration (micrograms/kilogram); potassium ion concentration (micrograms/kilogram); calcium ion concentration (micrograms/kilogram); chlorine ion concentration (micrograms/kilogram); fluoride concentration (micrograms/kilogram); sulfate ion concentration (micrograms/kilogram); particle concentration (number per milliliter)

Complete XML Record:

noaa-icecore-2466  (Last Revised: 2008-06-19 )

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