(Jul. 24) – Sampling ice cores, which took four weeks at temperatures of -30°C at the EuroCold Laboratory (European Cold Laboratory Facilities) of the University of Milano-Bicocca, is the final step of the first phase of the IPICS-2kyr-Italy scientific initiative, coordinated by ENEA. The project aims at collecting a paleo-climatic sequence at a remote site on the Eastern Antarctica shell. The project, funded by the Ministry of Education as part of the national research program in Antarctica, saw the participation of the University of Trieste, the CNR, the Venice office of the Institute for the Dynamics of Environmental Processes, the University of Milano-Bicocca, the INGV, the University of Florence and Korean researchers from the Kopri (Korean Polar Research Institute), as part of a five-year cooperation agreement with ENEA. The ice in the polar caps is a precious natural archive of Earth’s environmental and climatic history, and their study has considerably contributed to the assessments of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change about the ongoing changes and future trends.
A new ice core for the study of paleclimates
