Fractal analysis of eight glacial cycles from an Antarctic ice core
A rescaled range analysis was performed on recent electrical measurements of a deep ice core obtained from Dome C, Antarctica, representing a continuous 740000 year record of the Earth’s climate. It is shown that two measures of the electrical conductivity of the ice surface, both d.c. conductance a...
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| Summary: | A rescaled range analysis was performed on recent electrical measurements of a deep ice core obtained from Dome C, Antarctica, representing a continuous 740000 year record of the Earth’s climate. It is shown that two measures of the electrical conductivity of the ice surface, both d.c. conductance and 100-kHz dielectric profile, exhibit fractal behavior over 3 orders of magnitude in ice depth. Positive Hurst exponents of 0.795 and 0.848 were calculated for the d.c. conductance and dielectric profile, respectively. |
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