Ice-core researchers hope to chill out

Chill out: physiological responses to winter ice-angling in two temperate freshwater fishes

A large body of research has documented the stress response of fish following angling capture. Nearly all of these studies have taken place during the open-water season, with almost no work focused on the effects of capture in the winter via ice angling. We therefore conducted a study to examine physiological disturbance and reflex impairment following capture by ice-angling in two commonly tar...

Ice core studies from Mt Kenya , Africa , and their relationship to other tropical ice core studies

Mt Kenya, located at the Earth's equator, is one of the few tropical mountain areas in the world where glaciers exist today. Two i ce cores to a depth o f 1 3.4 and 11.4 m were retrieved from the col (4870 m) between the Lewis and Gregory glaciers. Microparticle, oxygen isotope and total S radioactivity analyses were conducted. The results of these measurements, as well as those from other trop...

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Researchers fail to dig out enough avalanche data.

Pascal Haegeli and coauthors’ interpretation of their avalanche research findings is unjustified. The authors cannot show an association between survival times and cause of death because cause of death is not reported in the Swiss sample. An association to snow density can’t be shown because it was not measured. The data show that the victims in both cohorts differed in many aspects and much po...

Inferring palaeo-accumulation records from ice-core data by an adjoint-based method: application to James Ross Island’s ice core

Ice cores contain a record of snow precipitation that includes information about past atmospheric circulation and mass imbalance in the polar regions. We present a novel approach to reconstruct a climatic record – by both optimally dating an ice core and deriving from it a detailed accumulation history – that uses an adjoint-based method. The motivation of our work is the recent application of ...