Review of the history of atmospheric CO2 recorded in ice cores

Oeschger, H.; Stauffer, B. (1986). Review of the history of atmospheric CO2 recorded in ice cores. In: Trabalka, John R.; Reichle, David E. (eds.) The Changing Carbon Cycle: A Global Analysis (pp. 89-108). Springer 10.1007/978-1-4757-1915-4_5

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Since the pioneering attempts by Scholander et al. (1961), the observation that the porous spaces in natural ice contain samples of ancient air, the study of ice cores for potential insights into the history of the atmospheric CO2 concentration has received great attention from scientists interested in the reconstruction of environmental parameters. Progress, however, was made possible only because deep ice cores from Greenland and Antarctica, which are continuous sequences of generally high-quality samples formed during the last 100,000 and 50,000 years, respectively, were available for study. Research has led to new techniques for extracting gases from ice and to recent developments of sensitive and accurate techniques for the analysis of gas. Today, analysis of gas concentrations in air entrapped in natural ice is considered to be the most promising method for reconstructing the history of the atmospheric CO2 concentration (WMO 1983).

Item Type:	Book Section (Book Chapter)
Division/Institute:	08 Faculty of Science > Physics Institute 08 Faculty of Science > Physics Institute > Climate and Environmental Physics
UniBE Contributor:	Stauffer, Bernhard
Subjects:	500 Science > 530 Physics
ISBN:	0-387-96211-5
Publisher:	Springer
Language:	English
Submitter:	BORIS Import 2
Date Deposited:	13 Jul 2022 09:08
Last Modified:	05 Dec 2022 15:54
Publisher DOI:	10.1007/978-1-4757-1915-4_5
URI:	https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/161044