Jean Robert Petit
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Jean Robert Petit studied Chemistry and Physics at the university of Grenoble and received a phd in 1984 in paleoclimatology on the study of the aeolian dust record from antartic ice cores.
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In 1999 he wrote a paper in Nature 'Climate and atmospheric history of the past 420 000 years from Vostok ice core, Antarctica'. The paper presented the first long climate record from the ice. It provided a continuous record of temperature and atmospheric composition. The data extracted from this ice core had implications troughout the fields of glaciology and paleoclimatology. One of the concluding remarks was that present day levels of [carbon dioxide] and methane seem to have been unprecedented during the past 420,000 years. The paper was cited 967 times to date.
[edit] Ice cores
The European EPICA Dome C provided new ice core results in 2004 with a 740 000 yrs climate record.
source: incites website
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