Paleoclimates

Since the early 1960s, the ice core community has produced a wealth of scientific results from a still relatively limited number of deep drilling sites in Greenland and Antarctica with the longest record extending back to the last interglacial in Greenland and covering eight glacial–interglacial cycles in Antarctica. Although measurements performed on the first ice cores, Camp Century and Byrd, largely focused on the isotopic composition of the ice as an indicator of climate change, the number of studied parameters has steadily increased encompassing numerous measurements performed on the entrapped air bubbles, on various impurities as well as on the ice itself. The climatic information provided by these various paleodata time is extremely rich. The relationships between forcing factors and climate, about the importance of carbon cycle feedbacks, about the occurrence of abrupt climate variability, and about the interplay between polar climate, ice sheet dynamics, and sea‐level variations are examples that are highly relevant to future climate change. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. This article is categorized under: Paleoclimates and Current Trends > Paleoclimate

Antarctic sea ice · Climate change · Climate oscillation · Climatology · Cryosphere · Effects of global warming · Future sea level · Geography · Glacial period · Global warming · Greenland ice sheet · Ice core · Ice sheet · Ice-sheet model · Interglacial · Paleoclimatology · Physical geography · Sea ice · Climate variability and models · Cryospheric studies and observations · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research · Geology · Oceanography · Paleontology

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