The GISP2 ice core record--paleoclimate highlights

Paul A. Mayewski

Glacier Research Group, Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans and Space, University of New Hampshire, Durham

Michael Bender

Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island, Kingston

• Introduction
• The Summit Ice Cores (GISP2 and GRIP)
• Dating GISP2
• The Anthropogenic Era
• The Little Ice Age and Medieval Warm Period
• The Younger Dryas
• The Last 110 kyr and the Dansgaard/Oeschger Events
• GISP2 and GRIP Records Prior to 110 kyr BP
• What Next?
• References