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2001

Paleoclimate

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Collaborative Research: Paleoclimate And Glaciological Recontructions In Central Asia, Karl J. Kreutz Sep 2001

Collaborative Research: Paleoclimate And Glaciological Recontructions In Central Asia, Karl J. Kreutz

University of Maine Office of Research Administration: Grant Reports

This project resulted in the collection of two intermediate-length (165 m) ice cores from the Inilchek Glacier, Central Tien Shan Mountains, Kyrgyzstan, during July/August 2000 with colleagues from UCSB, UNH, and the USGS. In addition, precipitation, fresh snow, surface snow, and aerosol samples were collected on the glacier and in the Inilchek Valley to assess atmospheric chemistry and deposition processes. The overall goal of the project (including a pending NSF/DOE proposal) is to develop high-resolution paleoclimatic records covering the last 1000-2000 years, which will be calibrated with meteorological data from the robust station network in the former Soviet Central Asian …


A Theory Of Global Climate Change On Millennial Time Scales, Kirk A. Maasch Jul 2001

A Theory Of Global Climate Change On Millennial Time Scales, Kirk A. Maasch

University of Maine Office of Research Administration: Grant Reports

A Theory of Global Climate Change on Millennial Time Scales In the northern hemisphere, large and rapid shifts in environmental conditions have occurred repeatedly over the last glacial- interglacial cycle. Indications are that climate change occurs on two characteristic time scales, roughly 1 - 3,000 years and 5 - 10,000 years. Evidence for millennial-scale climate variability has been found in ice cores drilled through the Greenland ice sheet, sediment cores from the North Atlantic Ocean, pollen records from both North America and Europe, and glacial deposits in North America. Paleoclimate records from the southern hemisphere also show climatic variability on …