What is what in the ice and the ocean?

• Published in: Quaternary Science Reviews
• Main Authors: Rousseau, Denis-Didier, Kukla, G., Mcmanus, J.F.
• Other Authors: Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution de Montpellier (UMR ISEM), Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad)-École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE), Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Institut de recherche pour le développement IRD : UR226-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Lehrstuhl für Geomorphologie, Universität Bayreuth, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO), Columbia University New York, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2006
• Subjects: GREENLAND ICE; ICEBERG DISCHARGES; CLIMATE RECORDS; OXYGEN-ISOTOPE; LAST GLACIAL PERIOD; NORTH-ATLANTIC; CORE RECORD; GRIP; STRATIGRAPHY; CIRCULATION; [SDE.MCG]Environmental Sciences/Global Changes; Greenland; Greenland ice core; Greenland Ice core Project; ice core; NGRIP; North Atlantic; North Greenland; North Greenland Ice Core Project
• Online Access: https://hal.science/halsde-00304202; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2006.03.009

International audience Recently released data from the North Greenland Ice core Project (NGRIP) document several rapid, abrupt climate changes affecting the Northern Hemisphere in the last 110,000 years. In particular, the new core shows high-resolution succession of expressed warm and cold episodes, which occurred during substages of Marine Isotope Stage MIS 5. Some of these variations were reported earlier from the GISP2 and GRIP ice cores. In the NGRIP core, following the INTIMATE group recommendations, the oscillations were given labels, which are in part the same as in the isotope system of deep-sea sediments, although to some extent they are not coeval. Here we recommend honoring the originally published marine designations wherever possible, but distinguishing them by a prefix referring to their recognition in the ice.