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SCIENTIFIC MOTIVATION FOR ICE CORING
SCIENTIFIC MOTIVATION FOR ICE CORING
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, and other national governments and international bodies including the United Nations, the International Council of Scientific Unions, International Climate Research Program (ICRP) , the World Meteorological Organization, all of which indicate the societal need to understand the ice-covered parts of the Earth.
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It enables the glacial archives to be read with fantastic detail and provides a means for dating akin to tree rings. On longer time scales the information contained in annual layers is smoothed out, but resolution on the order of decade or century time scales may still persist at ages of more than 100,000 years.
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Even the very recent ice layers are of interest, because they catalogue the deposition of pollutants in remote places where there are no observing stations. Similarly the ice provides old samples needed to establish natural background levels and variations existing before intervention by major human activity.
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An understanding of climate processes requires a broad geographical picture that can be reconstructed for the past only by means of a wide spectrum of paleoclimatic indicators in the terrestrial, marine, and ice environments. The unique spectrum of geochemical indicators found in ice can be exploited in high-altitude ice caps at lower latitude locations.
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The recent successfully completed Greenland Ice Sheet Program (GISP) at Dye 3, Greenland, is a prime example of what can be accomplished when the full force of modern day glaciological technology is unified into a field and laboratory team effort, as was done by the State University of New York (SUNY)
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