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Research at Centre for Ice and Climate
Ice caps consist of snow depositing during the last many millennia, and ice cores drilled at the right locations contain samples of past precipitation. When analysed, the ice cores reveal climatic information from time periods far back in time, while the individual layers sometimes still show how climate changed from year to year.
At Centre for Ice and Climate, researchers study the ice caps and ice cores using state-of-the-art laboratories and computer models, thereby improving our knowledge of past, present, and future climate.
Choose a topic below to learn more about the work at Centre for Ice and Climate:
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Climate change: past, present & future
Climate models and ice core data are used to investigate the mechanisms that governed past climate, thereby improving our ability to predict future climate change. Read more
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Flow of ice
The flow of ice determines the reaction of ice sheets to changes in climate, and ice flow models are important tools for dating and for understanding ice dynamics.Read more
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Reconstructing past atmospheres
Climate conditions almost a million years back in time are reconstructed from water molecules, air bubbles, and tiny amounts of impurities in polar ice cores. Read more
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Stratigraphy and dating
Determining the age of the ice is crucial for interpreting the ice core data. Ice cores are dated by annual layer counting and by applying computer modelsRead more.
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Drilling and analysing ice cores
Field work on the Greenland ice cap and 50 years of development of drilling tools and measurement techniques provide the basis for analysis of past climate.Read more
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Other projects
Researchers from Centre for Ice and Climate also work with ice on other planets and with analysis of DNA found in ice cores. Read more
Follow the links above to read about the specific research topics or see a sitemap with an overview of all the research web pages.