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Abrupt climatic changes: A global perspective from ice cores

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Clouds, Chemistry and Climate

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On July 12 1992, the GRIP European deep drilling (GReenland Ice Core Project) reached the bedrock in Central Greenland (Summit region; altitude of the site above sea level, a.s.l, is 3250 m, Figure 1). One year later, the US Greenland Ice Sheet Project (GISP2) successfully completed a second drilling in the same region at a site located 28 km apart (3208 m a.s.l). These two, more than 3 km long, cores have now been continuously analysed for their ice oxygen 18 content. Before reviewing the important climatic information that has already been derived from those profiles and putting them in a global perspective through a comparison with the Vostok deuterium record, we briefly summarize why and how these isotopic changes provide a record of the local temperature at the time of formation of the precipitation.

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  1. Laboratoire de Modélisation du Climat et de l’Environment, CEA/DSM,CE, Saclay, 91191, Gif/Yvette Cedex, France

    Jean Jouzel & Michel Stievenard

  2. Niels Bohr Institute of Astronomy, Physics and Geophysics, Department of Geophysics, University of Copenhagen, Haraldgade 6, DK 2200, Copenhagen, Denmark

    Claus Hammer & Sigfus Johnsen

  3. Laboratoire de Glaciologie et Géophysique de l’Environment du CNRS, BP96, 38402, St Martind’Hères Cedex, France

    Jean Jouzel & Claude Lorius

  4. Department of Geological and Quarternary Research center, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, 98195, USA

    Pieter Grootes

  5. Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research Institute and Department of Geological Sciences, university of Colorado, Campus Box 450, Boulder, Colorado, 80309, USA

    Jim White

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Jouzel, J. et al. (1996). Abrupt climatic changes: A global perspective from ice cores. In: Crutzen, P.J., Ramanathan, V. (eds) Clouds, Chemistry and Climate. NATO ASI Series, vol 35. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-61051-6_5

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