Extending the ice core record beyond half a million years

• Published in: Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union
• Main Authors: Wolff, Eric, Bigler, Matthias, Castellano, Emiliano, Delmonte, Barbara, Fluckiger, Jacqueline, Krinner, Gerhard, Lambert, Fabrice, Landais, Amaelle, Marinoni, Angela, Migliori, Alessio, Nyman, Mart, Scharmeli, Ivan, Severi, Mirko, Teste, Gregory, Augustin, Laurent, Armeni, Maurizio, Frascati, Fabrizio, Kjaer, Niels, Krasiliev, Alexander, Lefebvre, Eric, Manouvrier, Alain, Panichi, Severio
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: American Geophysical Union 2002
• Subjects: 530 Physics; Dome Fuji; Antarc*; Antarctica; ice core
• Online Access: https://boris.unibe.ch/158844/1/wolff02eos.pdf; https://boris.unibe.ch/158844/

Ice cores have been a crucial source of information about past changes in the climate and atmosphere. The Vostok ice core from Antarctica has provided key global change data sets extending 400,000 years in the past [Petit et al., 1999], while Japanese scientists drilling at Dome Fuji have obtained r...