Greenland palaeotemperatures derived from GRIP bore hole temperature and ice core isotope profiles

Sigfus J. Johnsen; Dorthe Dahl-Jensen; Willi Dansgaard; Niels Gundestrup

doi:10.3402/tellusb.v47i5.16077

Greenland palaeotemperatures derived from GRIP bore hole temperature and ice core isotope profiles

Tellus B: Chemical and Physical Meteorology

Volume 47 (1995): Issue 5

By: Sigfus J. Johnsen, Dorthe Dahl-Jensen, Willi Dansgaard and Niels Gundestrup

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|Jan 1995

Abstract

Modelling the temperature profile along the GRIP deep bore at the summit of the Greenland ice sheet leads to conversion factors that allow interpretation of the dated stable isotope profile as a climatic temperature record spanning the last 113,000 years. When corrected for surface elevation changes, the late glacial to Boreal temperature shift appears to have been 22 °C in central Greenland. The warming at the end of the last glaciation probably began earlier in Greenland, than in Antarctica.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3402/tellusb.v47i5.16077 | Journal eISSN: 1600-0889

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Submitted on: Aug 1, 1995

Accepted on: Aug 5, 1995

Published on: Jan 1, 1995

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© 1995 Sigfus J. Johnsen, Dorthe Dahl-Jensen, Willi Dansgaard, Niels Gundestrup, published by Stockholm University Press
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