Concept information
Preferred term
ICEHUS II
Definition
- ICEHUS is a Russian-Norwegian co-operation project that is financed by the Research Council of Norway for the period 2005-2010. The overall aim of the investigations is to improve the description and understanding of the Late Quaternary environmental changes at high latitudes and their impact on the earliest human occupation in northern Russia. In contrast to Svalbard, Scandinavia and much of Northern Europe, where the youngest ice sheets erased most of the pre-existing records from earlier periods of the Quaternary, northern Russia contain much more complete geological and archaeological archives that are essential for deciphering the history of the entire Barents-Kara sea region and the early human adaptation to a cold climate. We plan to carry out field expeditions in the European part of Russia as well as in West Siberia. The planned research activities will be a contribution to the International Polar Year (IPY) 2007 - 2008. A main IPY activity will be to core lakes in the Polar Urals, which according to our hypothesis may contain uninterrupted records of the climate evolution that dates back to at least 60,000 years ago. The project forms part of the programme APEX (Arctic Palaeoclimate and its Extremes) that has been selected as a lead coordinating programme for palaeoclimate research within the IPYcluster. Summary obtained from http://www.uib.no/form/aktuelt/polararet/prosjekt/icehusII2.htm (en)
Broader concept
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URI
https://gcmd.earthdata.nasa.gov/kms/concept/30fac8b1-7ab5-4d29-bbf5-140ac2be49e1
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