How is climate change recorded in Greenland?
In 1993 the Greenland Ice Sheet Project 2 finished drilling through
the Greenland Ice Sheet from the top to the ground bottom below
the glacier.
This ice core drilling project was directed by the Climate Change Research Center at the University of New Hampshire. The recovered ice core record enabled scientists
to piece together the most detailed record of Earth's climate
for the last 110,000 years and some answers to the puzzle of
how temperature, atmospheric gases, and other atmospheric particles
interact to create climate.
.::Move mouse over image for map of Greenland::.
(Dome image courtesy of
Michael Morrison,
University of New Hampshire)
1. What do you think it would be like to live on the Greenland
Ice Sheet and drill ice cores? What would you bring?
2. Why would scientists need to have a dome over their drilling
rig in Greenland?
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