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Thursday, November 09, 2006

Polar ice cores show "bipolar seesaw" climate link

Reuters Photo: A million-year-old Antarctic ice sample is displayed in Tokyo April 18, 2006. New ice cores...

New ice cores from the deep Antarctic show a direct and millennia-old relationship between climate changes in the northern and southern hemispheres, scientists said on Wednesday.

Comparison with cores from Greenland proves a strong north-south link and also highlights the role of the meridional overturning circulation (MOC) -- the so-called Atlantic Conveyor -- in the process of heat transfer.

"It is really astounding how systematic this process worked also for smaller temperature changes in the Antarctic," said team leader Hubertus Fischer from the Alfred-Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Bremerhaven, Germany.

Climate changes in the northern hemisphere have already been well documented through ice cores from Greenland, but until recently there was only sketchy evidence from Antarctica to show southern hemisphere variations.

Now a team from the 10-nation European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica has drilled out a core covering a period of 150,000 years from an area of the frozen continent where plentiful annual snowfalls allow detailed analysis.

They found that even short and small temperature changes in the south were connected to fast changes in the north by the changing Atlantic currents.

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