Antarctic ice confirms we've had a dry spell - for a century

• Main Author: Vance, TR
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: ABC News 2012
• Subjects: Earth Sciences; Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience; Glaciology; Antarctic; Law Dome; Pacific; The Antarctic; Vance; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://ecite.utas.edu.au/90998

Ice cores in the Antarctic have confirmed rainfall in eastern Australia over the past 100 years has been below the average for the past millennium.Dr Tessa Vance, from the Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems CRC, says while Australia's land-based rainfall records extend back around a century, the...