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Nature 399, 412-413 (3 June 1999) | doi:10.1038/20807

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Climate change:  Cornucopia of ice core results

Bernhard Stauffer

Natural archives of Earth's past climate take several forms — sea and lake sediments, tree rings, peat bogs and glacier ice — all of which are used in reconstructing climate history. But the records locked up in the large polar ice sheets are especially valuable.

  1. Bernhard Stauffer is at the Physics Institute, Climate and Environmental Physics, University of Bern, Sidlerstrasse 5, CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland.
    e-mail: Email:  stauffer@climate.unibe.ch