Sentences with phrase «past ice core studies»

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Ice cores offer one way of studying the distant past.

They planned to drill out ice cores to study past climates.

To investigate the climate changes of the past, the scientists are studying drill cores from the eternal ice.

«Ice cores contain little air bubbles and, thus, represent the only direct archive of the composition of the past atmosphere,» says Hubertus Fischer, an experimental climate physics professor at the University of Bern in Switzerland and lead author of the study.

In ice core studies, the accurate and precise dating of the core samples is a central issue that must be investigated to better constrain the timing, sequence, and duration of past climatic events.

Previous studies suggest that natural geologic methane emissions of the past are at least as high as natural emissions today, so studying the ancient ice cores allows researchers to accurately determine the upper limit of geologic emissions, separate from their anthropogenic counterparts.

This means that the current warming trend is qualitatively different from those we can study through ice cores etc., even if past warming was amplified by a CO2 feedback.

The ice core data for the past 800k years does support this study.

Scientists extract ice cores from ice sheets and ice caps, studying them to learn about past changes in Earth's climate.

There is a great book called the Two Mile Time Machine, by Richard Alley, that discusses the Greenland Ice Core Project, and the study of past failures of the ice sheet, and the ensuing almost instant climate chanIce Core Project, and the study of past failures of the ice sheet, and the ensuing almost instant climate chanice sheet, and the ensuing almost instant climate change.

Yet the Lloyd study found that over the past 8,000 the ice core record showed about 1C warming or cooling per hundred years.

It is the first study to directly link past glacial events with annual data from ice cores — cylindrical samples drilled from the glacier — extracted from the same ice mass.

Five Weird Archives That Scientists Use to Study Past Climates When tree rings, ice cores, and cave formations can't cut it, try your luck with whale earwax or bat poop.

What's more, scientists have detailed records of past CO2 levels from ice core studies, which show that CO2 levels are higher today than at any point since our distant ancestors began migrating out of Africa 800,000 years ago.

The study is the result of combined efforts of researchers from the University of Cambridge, University of Exeter, and the British Antarctic Survey who were focused on studying Antarctica's past climate using moss banks instead of ice cores.

In this study, more than 1000 tree - ring, ice core, coral, sediment and other assorted proxy records spanning both hemispheres were used to construct regional temperature change over the past 1500 years.

Paleoclimatological records are studies of past climate from records that are from proxy data, from ice cores, tree rings, sediments, and they go back thousands of years in the past.

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

I am a student at university studying general sciences and a colleague of mine claims that ice core samples prove that the earth is much warmer than in the past (in particular before the industrial revolution).