Greenland ice core project

View of the GRIP site at Summit Camp

The Greenland Ice Core Project (GRIP) was a research project organized through the European Science Foundation (ESF).[1] The project ran from 1989 to 1995, with drilling seasons from 1990 to 1992.[2] In 1988, the project was accepted as an ESF-associated program, and the fieldwork was started in Greenland in the summer of 1989.[3]

GRIP aimed to collect and investigate 3000-meter-long ice cores drilled at the apex of the Greenland ice sheet, also known as Summit Camp.[2] The Greenland ice sheet comprises more than 90% of the total ice sheet and glacier ice outside Antarctica.

The project was managed by a Steering Committee of the University of Bern's Physics Institute, chaired by Professor Bernhard Stauffer.[4] Funding came from eight European nations (Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Iceland, Italy, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom), and from the European Union.[4][3] Studies of nuclear isotopes and various atmospheric constituents provided by the cores allowed the team to construct detailed records of climate change, covering the last 100,000 years.

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  3. ^ a b Stauffer, Bernhard (1993-06-18). "The Greenland Ice Core Project". Science. 260 (5115): 1766–1767. Bibcode:1993Sci...260.1766S. doi:10.1126/science.260.5115.1766. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 17793652.
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