[Location: Location_Category='CONTINENT',
Location_Type='ANTARCTICA', Detailed_Location='SOUTH VICTORIA
LAND'] New Zealand International Transantarctic Scientific
Expedition (NZ ITASE) - Climate variability measured from ice
cores taken along the Victoria Land CoastEntry ID:
K049_1999_2008_NZ_1 Click to see members of this collection.
Abstract: The climate of the Victoria Land Coast is created by
the interacting influences of the Dry Valleys, East Antarctic
Ice Sheet and the Ross Sea. Slight changes can significantly
alter local weather patterns and as such a climate record of the
area provides ideal opportunities to study rapid, high frequency
climatic variations. International polar ice coring programmes
(e.g. GISP and Vostok) have ... provided powerful new insights
into Earth's climate back 400,000 years, from the diverse
inventory of atmospheric information stored both within the ice
and trapped air bubbles. To understand and predict the local
response to anthropogenically induced global warming seen in t