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moreNew climate clues from ice cores in East European Alps
02.02.2012
Researchers are beginning their analysis of what are probably the first successful ice cores drilled to bedrock from a glacier in the eastern European Alps. With luck, that analysis will yield a record of past climate and environmental changes in the region for several centuries, and perhaps even covering the last 1,000 years. Scientists also hope that the core contains the remnants of early human activity in the region, such as the atmospheric byproducts of smelting metals.
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moreScreening of Baltic Sea pollution in Estonia
30.01.2012
A group of Estonian and Finnish environmental scientists carried out analyses of heavy metals, organic and anorganic compounds, which pollute the inland and coastal waters around the eastern Baltic Sea. Some of these toxic substances find their way into food. Their report has been published in the Proceedings of the Estonian Academy of Sciences.
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moreHomogenisation improves quality of historical climate record
26.01.2012
Raw weather data, either from automatic weather stations, or human operated ones, cannot be directly used to study climate variability. The data contain various local signals that may obscure the climate signal. Examples of these local signals are the urban heat island effect, or variations in measurement methods between stations. Before the weather data can be used for climate studies, they need to be corrected. A new article in Climate of the Past reports about a Europe-wide homogenisation study.
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