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EPICA Dome C: Greenhouse gases over eight glacial cycles
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Ice cores are invaluable archives of past environmental conditions on Earth. In 1996, the European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica (EPICA) set out to provide the longest ice-core climate record yet, by drilling a core from 3,270 m thick ice at a site known as Dome C in East Antarctica. The team's findings to date, including a complete Antarctic climate record over the past 800,000 years and atmospheric methane and carbon dioxide records from 650,000 years ago to the present, have significantly advanced our understanding of the Earth's climate over the past eight glacial cycles. Here Nature presents the latest results, the complete records of atmospheric methane and carbon dioxide over the past 800,000 years, along with some of the previous Dome C ice-core papers and a collection of related articles.
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Current Research
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High-resolution carbon dioxide concentration record 650,000—800,000 years before present free access
Lüthi, D. et al.
Nature 453, 379–382 (15 May 2008) doi:10.1038/nature06949
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Orbital and millennial-scale features of atmospheric CH4 over the past 800,000 years free access
Loulergue, L. et al.
Nature 453, 383–386 (15 May 2008) doi:10.1038/nature06950
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Dust-climate couplings over the past 800,000 years from the EPICA Dome C ice core free access
Lambert, F. et al.
Nature 452, 616–619 (3 April 2008) doi:10.1038/nature06763
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ARTICLE
Southern Ocean sea-ice extent, productivity and iron flux over the past eight glacial cycles free access
Wolff, E. W. et al.
Nature 440, 491–496 (23 March 2006) doi:10.1038/nature04614
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Eight glacial cycles from an Antarctic ice core free access
EPICA community members
Nature 429, 623–628 (10 June 2004) doi:10.1038/nature02599
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Palaeoclimate: Windows on the greenhouse free access
Brook, E.
Nature 453, 291–292 (15 May 2008) doi:10.1038/453291a
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Palaeoclimate: A great grand-daddy of ice cores free access
McManus J.F.
Nature 429, 611–612 (10 June 2004) doi:10.1038/429611a
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Ice cores reveal climate secrets
Brumfiel G.
Nature News, (15 May 2008) doi:10.1038/news.2008.825
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Antarctic ice puts climate predictions to the test
Hopkin M.
Nature 438, 536–537 (1 December 2005) doi:10.1038/438536b
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Greenhouse-gas levels highest for 650,000 years
Hopkin M.
Nature News, (24 November 2005) doi:10.1038/news051121-14
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Palaeoclimate: Frozen time
Walker G.
Nature 429, 596–597 (10 June 2004) doi:10.1038/429596a
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