Ice cores map dynamics of sudden climate changes

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Caption: Ice core drilling NorthGRIP Greenland. Credit: Niels Bohr Institute University of Copenhagen
Caption: Ice core drilling NorthGRIP Greenland. Credit: Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen

New, extremely detailed data from investigations of ice cores from Greenland show that the climate shifted very suddenly and changed fundamentally during quite few years when the ice age ended. Researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute of University of Copenhagen have together with an international team analysed the ice cores from the NorthGRIP drilling through the Greenland ice cap, and the epoch-making new results have been published in the highly esteemed scientific journal Science and in Science Express.


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