Former Centre for Ice and Climate (2007-2017)
Centre for Ice and Climate was a Danish National Research Foundation centre of excellence from April 1st, 2007, to March 31st, 2017, and is now a part of the section for the Physics of Ice, Climate and Earth. The centre was a continuation of a long tradition of ice-core research in Copenhagen and the centre’s home page still contains our extensive data and publication collections that are still maintained. Read more >>
Copenhagen has led the international drilling projects GRIP, NGRIP, and NEEM that have led to comprehensive investigations into the climate of the past 128,000 years, corresponding to the most recent glacial-interglacial cycle. We also drill ice cores in the Antarctic in cooperation with our partners, and in 2015 we plan to drill through the Renland ice cap in East Greenland.
By performing measurements on the ice cores, we have the opportunity to study how climate has changed, and by measuring the air confined in the small bubbles of the ice, we reveal changes in the composition of the past atmosphere. We use data from ice core drillings as well as from radar observations to examine the ice sheet’s anatomy and flow pattern, and by counting annual layers in the ice sheet we can precisely date the ice
