The future of ice core science

• Published in: Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union
• Main Authors: Brook, Edward, Wolff, Eric
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: American Geophysical Union 2006
• Subjects: Meteorology and Climatology; Glaciology; Chemistry; Greenland; Law Dome; Siple; Siple Dome; Taylor Dome; Antarc*; Antarctica; EPICA; Greenland ice core; Greenland Ice core Project; Greenland Ice Sheet Project; GRIP; ice core; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/12004/

Cores drilled through the polar ice sheets provide information about past climate and environmental conditions on timescales from decades to hundreds of millennia, and direct records of changes in the composition of the atmosphere. As such, they are cornerstones of global change research. In the pas...