Greenland ice core project

The Greenland Ice Core Project (GRIP) was a multinational European research project, organized through the European Science Foundation.[1] Funding came from 8 nations (Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Iceland, Italy, Switzerland, and United Kingdom), and from the European Union.

View of the GRIP site

The project ran from 1989 to 1995, with drilling seasons from 1990 to 1992.[2] GRIP successfully drilled a 3029-metre ice core to the bed of the Greenland ice sheet at Summit, Central Greenland from 1989 to 1992 at 72°34.74′N 37°33.92′W.[3]

A portion of the core

Studies of isotopes and various atmospheric constituents in the core have revealed a detailed record of climate variability reaching more than 100,000 years back in time. The results indicate that Holocene climate has been remarkably stable and have confirmed the occurrence of rapid climatic variation during the last ice age (the Wisconsin). Delta-O-18 variations observed in the core part believed to date from the Eemian Stage have not been confirmed by other records[4] including the NGRIP core and are now believed not to represent climate events: the interglacial climate of Eemian Stage appears to have been as stable as the Holocene.

See also
Evolution of temperature in the Post-Glacial period according to Greenland ice cores.[5]

Sources
  • Ice and Climate Group. "Field season 2015 East GReenland Ice core Project (EGRIP) 2015-2020: Moving NEEM camp to new EGRIP drilling site. and REnland ice CAp Project (RECAP) 2015" (PDF). NEEM - University of Copenhagen. Retrieved 18 March 2017.

References
  1. "Greenland Icecore Project (GRIP): European Science Foundation". European Science Foundation. Archived from the original on 8 February 2012. Retrieved 18 March 2017.
  2. "More Information: European Science Foundation". European Science Foundation. 24 August 2010. Archived from the original on 7 February 2012. Retrieved 18 March 2017.
  3. Ice and Climate Group. "Field season 2015 East GReenland Ice core Project (EGRIP) 2015-2020: Moving NEEM camp to new EGRIP drilling site. and REnland ice CAp Project (RECAP) 2015" (PDF). NEEM - University of Copenhagen. p. 82. Retrieved 18 March 2017.
  5. Zalloua, Pierre A.; Matisoo-Smith, Elizabeth (6 January 2017). "Mapping Post-Glacial expansions: The Peopling of Southwest Asia". Scientific Reports. 7: 40338. doi:10.1038/srep40338. ISSN 2045-2322. PMC 5216412. PMID 28059138.

The GRIP logistics were managed by what is now called Centre for Ice and Climate at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. This research centre maintains a web page about ice core research:

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