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Ice cores provide information about past climate and environmental conditions on timescales from decades to hundreds of millennia, as well as direct records of the composition of the atmosphere. As such, they are the cornerstones of global change research. For example, ice cores can play a central role in showing how closely climate and greenhouse gas concentrations were linked in the past, and in demonstrating that very abrupt climate switches can occur...
European Partnerships in Ice Core Sciences (EuroPICS): is set up under the auspices of the European Polar Board (EPB) as a scientific and technical coordination group representing the scientific disciplines and associated technical capacities associated with ice core science.
The overall purpose of EuroPICS is to provide a forum for European ice core scientists and technical experts to co-ordinate priorities and activities, and to pursue those priorities in the most effective and efficient way, working in co-operation with relevant agencies and national programmes. This may be through European-scale activities, through multi-nation projects, or through co-ordination of single-nation efforts. The priorities initially correspond to those of the international version called IPICS.
The U.S. Ice Drilling Program conducts integrated planning for the ice drilling science and technology communities and provides drilling technology and operational support that enables the community to advance the frontiers of climate and environmental science.
To increase our understanding of the Oceanic, Cryospheric,
and Hydrospheric Processes in support of the NASA Earth Science Enterprise and the U.S.
Global Change Research Program.
WAIS Divide is a United States deep ice coring project in West Antarctica funded by the National Science Foundation and is the second component to the larger WAISCORES initiative. The
WAIS Divide ice core will provide Antarctic records of environmental change
with the highest possible time resolution for the last ~100,000 years and will
be the Southern Hemisphere equivalent of the GISP2, GRIP, North GRIP, and NEEM ice cores.