The Greenland Ice Sheet Project (GISP) was a decade-long project to drill ice cores in Greenland that involved scientists and funding agencies from Denmark...
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The Greenland ice sheet is an ice sheet which forms the second largest body of ice in the world. It is an average of 1.67 km (1.0 mi) thick, and over 3 km...
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The Greenland Ice Core Project (GRIP) was a research project organized through the European Science Foundation (ESF). The project ran from 1989 to 1995...
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sequence of collaborative projects began in the 1970s with the Greenland Ice Sheet Project; there have been multiple follow-up projects, with the most recent...
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drilling site of the North Greenland Ice Core Project (NGRIP or NorthGRIP) is near the center of Greenland (75.1 N, 42.32 W, 2917 m, ice thickness 3085). Drilling...
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Three-quarters of Greenland is covered by the only permanent ice sheet outside Antarctica. With a population of 56,583 (2022), Greenland is the least densely...
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Summit Camp (redirect from Summit Station, Greenland)
Station, is a year-round staffed research station near the apex of the Greenland ice sheet. The station is located at 3,216 metres (10,551 ft) above sea level...
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Dye 3 (category Research stations in Greenland)
ice cores are removed from an ice sheet such as the ice cap internal to Greenland. Greenland is, by area, the world's largest island. The Greenland ice...
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build a network of mobile nuclear missile launch sites under the Greenland ice sheet. The end goal was to install a vast network of nuclear missile launch...
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(pdf) on 2016-03-06. Langway, Jr., Chester C. (Aug 10, 1981). "Greenland Ice Sheet Project" (Photograph). Emilio Segrè Visual Archives (ESVA). American...
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The only other currently existing ice sheet on Earth is the Greenland ice sheet in the Arctic. The Antarctic ice sheet is divided by the Transantarctic...
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and Greenland ice: A clue for stratigraphic disturbance in the bottom part of the Greenland Ice Core Project and the Greenland Ice Sheet Project 2 ice cores"...
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(1997) compared results from studies of West Antarctic ice cores with the Greenland Ice Sheet Project Two GISP2; they suggested a synchronous global cooling...
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The East Greenland Ice-Core Project, known as EGRIP, is a scientific project that plans to retrieve an ice core from the Northeast Greenland ice stream...
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Icelandic ice sheet collapse, onshore (est. net wastage 221 Gt a−1[clarification needed] over 750 years) and similar to today's Greenland rates of mass...
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and Greenland ice: A clue for stratigraphic disturbance in the bottom part of the Greenland Ice Core Project and the Greenland Ice Sheet Project 2 ice cores"...
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modelling, Ice-sheet models use numerical methods to simulate the evolution, dynamics and thermodynamics of ice sheets, such as the Greenland ice sheet, the...
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glaciers and the ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica. However, warming from their loss is generally smaller than from the declining sea ice, and it would...
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Camp Century (redirect from Camp Century, Greenland)
in Greenland. situated 240 km (150 mi) east of Pituffik Space Base. When built, Camp Century was publicized as a demonstration for affordable ice-cap...
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Danish Expedition to Queen Louise Land (redirect from 1912–13 Danish Expedition to Queen Louise Land and Across the North Greenland Ice Sheet)
the Danish expedition to Queen Louise Land and straight through Greenland’s ice sheet (Danish: Danske ekspedition til Dronning Louise’s Land og tværs...
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vehicles; the Greenland Ice Sheet Project, and Geoffrey Hargreaves at the National Science Foundation Ice Core Facility (NICL) in Colorado, and ice cores from...
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27806°W / -78.73417; -133.27806 The West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) is the segment of the continental ice sheet that covers West Antarctica, the portion of Antarctica...
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warming somewhere between 0.8 °C (1.4 °F) and 3 °C (5.4 °F), the Greenland ice sheet passes a tipping point and is doomed, but its melt would take place...
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agreement with data from the Greenland Ice Sheet Project (GISP2), but are somewhat at odds with those of the Greenland Ice Core Project (GRIP). In the sequence...
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key area where pancake ice forms the dominant ice type over an entire region is the so-called Odden ice tongue in the Greenland Sea. The Odden (the word...
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Kangerlussuaq (redirect from Kangerlussuaq, Greenland)
settlement in Greenland (not counting streets inside the settlement). A gravel road through Isunngua connects Kangerlussuaq with the ice sheet, initially...
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Major projects over the following decades brought cores from deep holes in the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets. Hand drilling, using ice augers to...
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taken part in two other ventures to Greenland. His purpose was to make a systematic study of the Greenland ice sheet. In 1929, as a preliminary expedition...
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collaboration attempting to improve estimates of the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheet contribution to sea level rise and to publish data and analyses concerning...
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presence or expansion of continental and polar ice sheets and alpine glaciers. Earth's climate alternates between ice ages, and greenhouse periods during which...
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