Ice streams: charting the history of the ice caps
During ice ages, ice sheets move over fast-flowing ice streams that leave distinct geological signatures on the ocean floor. The relationship between ice streams and climate change forms the basis of the article "Stemming the flow of climate change", published in the journal International Innovation by Angelo Camerlenghi, an ICREA research professor with the Department of Stratigraphy, Paleontology and Marine Geosciences at the UB, and Michele Rebesco, from the National Institute of Oceanography and Geophysics in Trieste. The study was carried out under the project "Neogene Ice-Streams and Sedimentary Processes on High-Latitude Continental Margins" (NICE-STREAMS), which is one of a series of research initiatives conducted under the International Polar Year (IPY) Directive.
During ice ages, ice sheets move over fast-flowing ice streams that leave distinct geological signatures on the ocean floor. The relationship between ice streams and climate change forms the basis of the article "Stemming the flow of climate change", published in the journal International Innovation by Angelo Camerlenghi, an ICREA research professor with the Department of Stratigraphy, Paleontology and Marine Geosciences at the UB, and Michele Rebesco, from the National Institute of Oceanography and Geophysics in Trieste. The study was carried out under the project "Neogene Ice-Streams and Sedimentary Processes on High-Latitude Continental Margins" (NICE-STREAMS), which is one of a series of research initiatives conducted under the International Polar Year (IPY) Directive.
The journal International Innovation, which devotes is latest edition to ground-breaking international research into global climate change, contains interviews with Connie Hedegaard, EC Commissioner for Climate Action, Ghassem Asrar, director of the World Climate Research Program, and Jacqueline McGlade, executive secretary of the European Environment Agency, and with a number of other international experts.