Toward a better understanding of climate of the past million years
Quaternary Climate: From Pole to Pole—EPICA Open Science Conference; Venice, Italy, 10–13 November 2008; The European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica (EPICA) has provided unique paleoclimatic data and is now widely recognized and cited in hundreds of scientific papers. EPICA is a multinational...
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ftnerc:oai:nora.nerc.ac.uk:12611 2023-05-15T13:45:11+02:00 Toward a better understanding of climate of the past million years Barbante, Carlo Fischer, Hubertus Masson-Delmotte, Valerie Stocker, Thomas Waelbroeck, Claire Wolff, Eric W. 2009 http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/12611/ http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2009/2009EO070003.shtml unknown American Geophysical Union Barbante, Carlo; Fischer, Hubertus; Masson-Delmotte, Valerie; Stocker, Thomas; Waelbroeck, Claire; Wolff, Eric W. 2009 Toward a better understanding of climate of the past million years. Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, 90 (7). 55, pp. Meteorology and Climatology Publication - Article NonPeerReviewed 2009 ftnerc 2023-02-04T19:28:04Z Quaternary Climate: From Pole to Pole—EPICA Open Science Conference; Venice, Italy, 10–13 November 2008; The European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica (EPICA) has provided unique paleoclimatic data and is now widely recognized and cited in hundreds of scientific papers. EPICA is a multinational project that has successfully drilled and analyzed two Antarctic ice cores to bedrock. The first one, at Dome C (75°06'S, 123°21'E, 3233 meters above sea level, 3259.7-meter core length), has yielded a complete stratigraphically ordered sequence covering the past 800,000 years, almost doubling the length of previous Antarctic records (Vostok). The exceptional similarity of the Antarctic temperature and carbon dioxide (CO2) records highlights the likely role of the Southern Ocean in the carbon cycle, while other trace gas and chemical profiles show the close coupling between different aspects of the Earth system. The second EPICA core, in Dronning Maud Land (75°00'S, 00°04'E, 2892 meters above sea level, 2774.2-meter core length), has provided a very high resolution record of a complete glacial cycle in the Atlantic sector, confirming theoretical predictions regarding the coupling of the two hemispheres during millennial-scale climate changes. In this ice core, Antarctic counterparts were found to each of the rapid Dansgaard-Oeschger climate change events prominent in Greenland and other Northern Hemisphere records of the glacial period; from Dome C data it appears that such events may have occurred in each previous glacial period. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic Antarctica Dronning Maud Land EPICA Greenland ice core Southern Ocean Natural Environment Research Council: NERC Open Research Archive Antarctic Southern Ocean The Antarctic Dronning Maud Land Greenland |
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Quaternary Climate: From Pole to Pole—EPICA Open Science Conference; Venice, Italy, 10–13 November 2008; The European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica (EPICA) has provided unique paleoclimatic data and is now widely recognized and cited in hundreds of scientific papers. EPICA is a multinational project that has successfully drilled and analyzed two Antarctic ice cores to bedrock. The first one, at Dome C (75°06'S, 123°21'E, 3233 meters above sea level, 3259.7-meter core length), has yielded a complete stratigraphically ordered sequence covering the past 800,000 years, almost doubling the length of previous Antarctic records (Vostok). The exceptional similarity of the Antarctic temperature and carbon dioxide (CO2) records highlights the likely role of the Southern Ocean in the carbon cycle, while other trace gas and chemical profiles show the close coupling between different aspects of the Earth system. The second EPICA core, in Dronning Maud Land (75°00'S, 00°04'E, 2892 meters above sea level, 2774.2-meter core length), has provided a very high resolution record of a complete glacial cycle in the Atlantic sector, confirming theoretical predictions regarding the coupling of the two hemispheres during millennial-scale climate changes. In this ice core, Antarctic counterparts were found to each of the rapid Dansgaard-Oeschger climate change events prominent in Greenland and other Northern Hemisphere records of the glacial period; from Dome C data it appears that such events may have occurred in each previous glacial period. |
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Barbante, Carlo Fischer, Hubertus Masson-Delmotte, Valerie Stocker, Thomas Waelbroeck, Claire Wolff, Eric W. |
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Barbante, Carlo Fischer, Hubertus Masson-Delmotte, Valerie Stocker, Thomas Waelbroeck, Claire Wolff, Eric W. |
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Toward a better understanding of climate of the past million years |
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Toward a better understanding of climate of the past million years |
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Toward a better understanding of climate of the past million years |
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Toward a better understanding of climate of the past million years |
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Toward a better understanding of climate of the past million years |
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toward a better understanding of climate of the past million years |
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American Geophysical Union |
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2009 |
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Antarctic Southern Ocean The Antarctic Dronning Maud Land Greenland |
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Antarctic Southern Ocean The Antarctic Dronning Maud Land Greenland |
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Antarc* Antarctic Antarctica Dronning Maud Land EPICA Greenland ice core Southern Ocean |
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Antarc* Antarctic Antarctica Dronning Maud Land EPICA Greenland ice core Southern Ocean |
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Barbante, Carlo; Fischer, Hubertus; Masson-Delmotte, Valerie; Stocker, Thomas; Waelbroeck, Claire; Wolff, Eric W. 2009 Toward a better understanding of climate of the past million years. Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, 90 (7). 55, pp. |
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