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The Climatic Record from Antarctic Ice Now Extends Back to 220 kyr BP

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Long-Term Climatic Variations

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Abstract

The isotopic content of ancient waters (deuterium and oxygen 18) gives a key access to past climatic changes because of the essentially linear relationship that exists between the isotopic content of a precipitation and the temperature of the site (at least for middle and high latitudes). This approach has been extensively used for extracting high resolution climatic records from both Antarctic and Greenland ice that now extend beyond 200 kyr BP (Dansgaard et al., 1993; Jouzel et al., 1993). Here we present the Vostok isotope temperature record which has been extended back to 220 kyr BP and the associated glaciological timescale. We then briefly discuss differences and similarities between this Antarctic record and the new climatic records recently obtained in Central Greenland.

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  1. Laboratoire de Modélisation du Climat et de l’Environnement, CEA/DSM CEN Saclay, 91191, Gif sur Yvette Cedex, France

    J. Jouzel, J. R. Petit, M. Stievenard & P. Yiou

  2. Laboratoire de Glaciologie et Géophysique de l’Environnement, CNRS, BP96, 38402, Saint Martin d’Hères Cedex, France

    J. Jouzel, C. Lorius, J. R. Petit & C. Ritz

  3. Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, Beringa Street 38, 199226, St Petersburg, Russia

    N. I. Barkov & V. Lipenkov

  4. Institute of Geography, Staromonetny, per 29, 109017, Moscow, Russia

    V. M. Kotlyakov

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Jouzel, J. et al. (1994). The Climatic Record from Antarctic Ice Now Extends Back to 220 kyr BP. In: Duplessy, JC., Spyridakis, MT. (eds) Long-Term Climatic Variations. NATO ASI Series, vol 22. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-79066-9_8

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