Ice cores are a favored archive to study past climates, because they provide a number of indications on the history of the climate and of the atmospheric composition. Among these, water stable isotopes are considered as a very reliable temperature proxy. Yet, their interpretation is sometimes more complicated than a simple one-to-one correspondence with local temperature and requires intercomparis ...[Read More]
How to reconstruct past climates from water stable isotopes in Polar ice cores ?
Backlit layering in a snow pit in Antarctica (credit waisdivide.unh.edu )