A COMPENDIUM OF RECENT FRENCH CONTRIBUTION TO POLAR ICE CORE STUDIES

• Main Author: Robert J. DELMAS
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: Laboratoire de Glaciologie et Geophysique de l'Environnement 1997
• Subjects: Antarctic; Greenland; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica; EPICA; GRIP; ice core; Polar meteorology and glaciology; Proceedings of the NIPR Symposium on Polar Meteorology and Glaciology
• Online Access: https://nipr.repo.nii.ac.jp/?action=repository_uri&item_id=3969; http://id.nii.ac.jp/1291/00003969/; https://nipr.repo.nii.ac.jp/?action=repository_action_common_download&item_id=3969&item_no=1&attribute_id=18&file_no=1

Over the last decade, researchers and drillers of Laboratoire de Glaciologie et Geophysique de l'Environnement (LGGE) were involved in four major international projects in Antarctica and Greenland. Vostok data (Antarctica) documented the links between major climate changes and the composition of atmospheric gaseous and particulate constituents. Then, for European glaciologists, Eurocore and GRIP represented an exceptional opportunity of working together in Greenland. A wealth of scientific results were amassed from shallow and deep ice cores collected from 1989 to 1992 at Summit for these projects. Finally, the strategy adopted successfully in Greenland is now being transferred to the Antarctic for Epica, the great glaciological research project to be developed by Europe during the next years. LGGE is particularly interested in the Dome Concordia drilling operation (the first phase of Epica). A summary of French scientific activities related to these international projects is given.