International Effort Helps Decipher Mysteries of Paleoclimate from Antarctic Ice Cores

• Main Authors: Abynov, S. S., Angelis, M., Barkov, B. I., Barnola, J. M., Bender, M., Chapellaz, J., Chistiakov, V. K., Duval, P., Genthon, C., Jouzel, J., Kotlyakov, V. M., Korotkevitch, Ye. S., Kudriashov, B. B., Lipenkov, V. Y., Legrand, M., Lorius, C., Malaize, B., Martinerie, P., Nikolayev, V. I., Petit, J. R., Raynaud, D., Raisbeck, G., Ritz, C., Salamantin, A. N., Saltzman, E., Sowers, T., Stievenard, M., Vostretsov, R. N., Wahlen, M., Waelbroeck, C., Yiou, F., Yiou, P.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: eScholarship, University of California 1995
• Subjects: Physical Sciences and Mathematics; Antartica; ice core; paleoclimate; atmospheres; ice; Antarctic; East Antarctica; Vostok Station; Antarc*; Antarctica; antartic*
• Online Access: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/4f8573dk

Ice cores drilled at Vostok Station, Antarctica, and studied over the past 10 years by Russia, France, and the United States (Figure 1) are providing a wealth of information about past climate and environmental changes over more than a full glacial-interglacial cycle. The ice cores show that East An...