Sentences with phrase «ancient climates recorded»

Meanwhile important news came from studies of ancient climates recorded in Antarctic ice cores, retrieved by a French and Russian team from one of the most inhospitable places on Earth.

Meanwhile striking news came from studies of ancient climates recorded in Antarctic ice cores.

«Warming pulses in ancient climate record link volcanoes, asteroid impact and dinosaur - killing mass extinction.»

As yet, no one has touched the waters of a subglacial lake with so much as a drill bit, but a Russian group that has been coring ice over Lake Vostok to get ancient climate records is coming close.

Not exact matches

Using an interdisciplinary approach that combined evidence from climate modelling of large 20th - century eruptions, annual measurements of Nile summer flood heights from the Islamic Nilometer — the longest - known human record of environmental variability — between 622 and 1902, as well as descriptions of Nile flood quality in ancient papyri and inscriptions from the Ptolemaic era, the authors show how large volcanic eruptions impacted on Nile river flow, reducing the height of the agriculturally - critical summer flood.

Sediment core samples drawn from Lake Titicaca, South America's largest freshwater lake, have revealed a 25,000 - year precipitation record that may rewrite the books on ancient climate.

Researchers reconstructing ancient climates delve into the mineral for a record of temperature and atmospheric composition, environmental conditions and the state of the ocean at the time those minerals formed.

We have historical records of people complaining that the climate was going «mad» in 18th century Paris or even in ancient Rome.

Their findings have stirred a lot of skepticism in the community of specialists examining ancient records of past climate changes and how they might relate to variations in Earth's orbit and orientation toward the Sun and other factors.

Ice sheets contain a record of hundreds of thousands of years of past climate, trapped in the ancient snow.

From the University of California — Berkeley Deep sediments are unparalleled record of biotic changes over past 200,000 + years University of California, Berkeley, scientists are drilling into ancient sediments at the bottom of Northern California's Clear Lake for clues that could help them better predict how today's plants and animals will adapt to climate change...

We call it «natural» climate change and ancient and historical climate records are replete with it.

Studying ice cores shows how ancient ice contains records of Earth's past climate.

Using this ancient evidence, scientists have built a record of Earth's past climates, or «paleoclimates.»