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Chemical Species Spatial Distribution And Relationship To Elevation And Snow Accumulation Rate Over The Greenland Ice Sheet, Q. Yang, Paul Andrew Mayewski, E. Linder, S. Whitlow, M. Twickler
Chemical Species Spatial Distribution And Relationship To Elevation And Snow Accumulation Rate Over The Greenland Ice Sheet, Q. Yang, Paul Andrew Mayewski, E. Linder, S. Whitlow, M. Twickler
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Major chemical species (Cl−, NO−3, SO2−4, Na+, K+, Mg2+, Ca2+) from 24 snowpits (sampled at a resolution of 3 cm, total 2995 samples) collected from northern, central, and southern Greenland were used for this investigation. The annual and seasonal (winter and summer) concentration of each chemical species was calculated and used to study the spatial distribution of chemical species over the central portion of the Greenland Ice Sheet. A two-sided t-distribution test (α=0.05) suggests that concentrations of major chemical species in snow do …
Twin Ice Cores From Greenland Reveal History Of Climate Change, More, R. Alley, Paul Andrew Mayewski, D. Peel, B. Stauffer
Twin Ice Cores From Greenland Reveal History Of Climate Change, More, R. Alley, Paul Andrew Mayewski, D. Peel, B. Stauffer
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Two projects conducted from 1989 to 1993 collected parallel ice cores—just 30 km apart— from the central part of the Greenland ice sheet. Each core is more than 3 km deep and extends back 110,000 years. In short, the ice cores tell a clear story: humans came of age agriculturally and industrially during the most stable climatic regime recorded in the cores. Change—large, rapid, and global—is more characteristic of the Earth's climate than is stasis.