IPY: Collaborative Research: The NEEM Deep Ice Core

这是包括科罗拉多大学和堪萨斯大学在内的几个机构的合作提案。主要研究人员要求资金支持美国科学家参与国际极地年（IPY）的NEEM项目，在格陵兰岛北部钻探新的深冰芯，以研究过去和未来的环境和气候。具体的目标将包括获得最后一次间冰期的气候记录。这一时期比今天更温暖，是未来潜在气候的最佳模拟。当海平面比现在高很多米时，这个冰芯和雷达测绘将提供格陵兰冰盖大小的限制条件。这一岩心将揭示伊姆期是否发生了突发性气候变化。这些信息将为未来气候突变提供更好的预测能力，并增加关于人类对气候和环境的改变如何与自然气候变化相适应的日益增长的知识。NEEM是由哥本哈根大学冰川学小组领导的一项国际努力。已有15个国家表示愿意参加。最初的提案被缩减为资助首席研究员詹姆斯·怀特博士的旅行和计划会议，作为占位者，“直到NEEM核心被钻出”。Claude Laird博士的雷达项目将主要由NSF的CReSIS （STC）项目支持。提交的提案为时过早，在岩心被回收并且确定高质量的Eemian冰已经钻出之前不会得到资助，否则这将只是另一个格陵兰岛的深层岩心，与GISP2或GRIP岩心没有任何新的或不同之处。丹麦人刚刚获得了岩心的资金，因此最早可以在2007/2008年进行钻探，最早可以通过Eemian取回岩心是2009年。莱尔德博士将得到资助，因为地面雷达的完成至关重要，这样才能选择最佳的钻探地点。主要研究人员要求资金支持美国科学家参与国际极地年（IPY）的NEEM项目，在格陵兰岛北部钻探新的深冰芯，以研究过去和未来的环境和气候。具体的目标将包括获得最后一次间冰期的气候记录。这一时期比今天更温暖，是未来潜在气候的最佳模拟。当海平面比现在高很多米时，这个冰芯和雷达测绘将提供格陵兰冰盖大小的限制条件。该岩心可以揭示气候突变是否发生在较暖的赤道期。这些信息将为未来气候突变提供更好的预测能力，并增加关于人类对气候和环境的改变如何与自然气候变化相适应的日益增长的知识。NEEM是由哥本哈根大学冰川学小组领导的一项国际努力。已有15个国家表示愿意参加。最初的提案被缩减为资助首席研究员James White博士的旅行和计划会议，作为“占位符”，直到NEEM核心被钻出。Claude Laird博士的雷达项目将主要由NSF的CReSIS （STC）项目支持。提交的这一建议为时过早，在岩心被回收并确定高质量的Eemian冰已经钻出之前，不会得到资助，否则这将只是另一个格陵兰岛深部岩心，与GISP2或GRIP岩心没有任何新的或独特的地方。丹麦人刚刚获得了岩心的资金，因此最早可以在2007/2008年进行钻探，最早可以通过Eemian取回岩心是2009年。莱尔德博士将得到资助，因为地面雷达的完成至关重要，这样才能选择最佳的钻探地点。

This is a collaborative proposal among several institutions including the Universities of Colorado and Kansas. The Principal Investigators request funds to support the participation of U.S. scientists in the NEEM Project for the International Polar Year (IPY) to drill new deep ice core in northern Greenland to address past and future environments and climates. Specific goals will include obtaining a record of the climate of last interglacial period, the Eemain. This period was warmer than today and is the best analog for potential future climate. This core and the radar mapping will provide constraints on the size of the Greenland ice sheet when sea level was many meters higher than today. This core should reveal if abrupt climate change occurred in the Eemian period. Such information should offer better future predictive power for abrupt climate shifts and add to the growing knowledge about how alterations of climate and the environment by humans fit within the context of natural climate change. NEEM is an international effort, led by the glaciology group at the University of Copenhagen. Fifteen countries have expressed a desire to participate. The original proposal was reduced to funding the lead Principal Investigator, Dr. James White for travel and planning meetings as a placeholder" until the NEEM core is drilled. Dr. Claude Laird's radar project will be mainly supported by the NSF's CReSIS (STC) Program. The proposal, as submitted, is premature and will not be funded until the core is retrieved and it is certain that high quality Eemian ice has been drilled, otherwise this will be just another deep Greenland core with nothing new or different from the GISP2 or GRIP cores. The Danes have just received funding for the core, so the earliest the drilling could be staged is in 2007/2008 and the earliest the core could be retrieved through the Eemian is 2009. Dr. Laird will be funded because it is critical that the surface radar be done so that the best site can be chosen for the drilling. The Principal Investigators request funds to support the participation of U.S. scientists in the NEEM Project for the International Polar Year (IPY) to drill new deep ice core in northern Greenland to address past and future environments and climates. Specific goals will include obtaining a record of the climate of last interglacial period, the Eemain. This period was warmer than today and is the best analog for potential future climate. This core and the radar mapping will provide constraints on the size of the Greenland ice sheet when sea level was many meters higher than today. This core should reveal if abrupt climate change occurred in the warmer Eemian period. Such information should offer better future predictive power for abrupt climate shifts and add to the growing knowledge about how alterations of climate and the environment by humans fit within the context of natural climate change. NEEM is an international effort, led by the glaciology group at the University of Copenhagen. Fifteen countries have expressed a desire to participate. The original proposal was reduced to funding the lead Principal Investigator, Dr. James White for travel and planning meetings as a "placeholder" until the NEEM core is drilled. Dr. Claude Laird's radar project will be mainly supported by the NSF's CReSIS (STC) Program. This proposal, as submitted, is premature and will not be funded until the core is retrieved and it is certain that high quality Eemian ice has been drilled, otherwise this will be just another deep Greenland core with nothing new or unique from the GISP2 or GRIP cores. The Danes have just received funding for the core, so the earliest the drilling could be staged is in 2007/2008 and the earliest the core could be retrieved through the Eemian is 2009. Dr. Laird will be funded because it is critical that the surface radar be done so that the best site can be chosen for the drilling.