North Greenland Ice Core Project (NGRIP) ice core

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The North Greenland Ice Core Project (NGRIP) ice core is a deep ice core drilled in northern Greenland that provides a high-resolution record of past climate and atmospheric conditions over more than 100,000 years.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf climate proxy record
ice core
paleoclimate archive
analyzedBy ice core scientists
paleoclimatologists
climateProxy hydrogen isotope ratio
oxygen isotope ratio
contains aerosols
air bubbles
dust particles
stable water isotopes
trapped greenhouse gases
volcanic sulfate layers
continent North America
country Greenland
dataType chemical impurity profiles
dust concentration profiles
gas concentration measurements
isotopic measurements
drillingSite NGRIP camp
location Greenland ice sheet
North Greenland
linked to: Greenland
maximumAge > 100,000 years
partOf North Greenland Ice Core Project
providesRecordOf abrupt climate changes
atmospheric composition
dust deposition
greenhouse gas concentrations
past climate
temperature variations
volcanic eruptions
relatedTo European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica (EPICA)
linked to: Dome C

Greenland Ice Core Project (GRIP)
North Greenland Eemian Ice Drilling (NEEM)
researchField climate science
glaciology
paleoclimatology
significance benchmark for abrupt climate change studies
key record for Northern Hemisphere climate history
temporalResolution high-resolution
timeSpan Holocene
Late Pleistocene
linked to: Last Glacial Period
usedFor calibrating climate models
reconstructing past temperatures
studying Dansgaard–Oeschger events
studying glacial–interglacial cycles
studying ice sheet dynamics

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Greenlandian GSSPLocation North Greenland Ice Core Project (NGRIP) ice core
Northgrippian namedAfter NorthGRIP ice core
linked to: North Greenland Ice Core Project (NGRIP) ice core
Northgrippian stratotype NorthGRIP ice core in central Greenland
linked to: North Greenland Ice Core Project (NGRIP) ice core
Northgrippian GSSP NorthGRIP ice core, Greenland
linked to: North Greenland Ice Core Project (NGRIP) ice core
Younger Dryas cold event evidenceFrom Greenland ice cores
linked to: North Greenland Ice Core Project (NGRIP) ice core
North Greenland Ice Core Project (NGRIP) ice core partOf North Greenland Ice Core Project
linked to: North Greenland Ice Core Project (NGRIP) ice core