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Encyclopedia > Willi Dansgaard

Willi Dansgaard, (1922-). Palaeoclimatologist. Professor Emeritus of Geophysics at the University of Copenhagen. Member of the Royal Danish Academy of Science and Letters, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Icelandic Academy of Sciences, and the Danish Geophysical Society.


He was the first paleoclimatologist to demonstrate that measurements of the trace isotopes oxygen-18 and deuterium in accumulated glacier ice could be used as an indicator of past climate.


In 1966 he took part in the first polar deep ice core drilling expedition, the American Camp Century ice core from Greenland.


Awards

Links

  • http://content.aip.org/products/esva/Dansgaard_Willi.html - photo of Dansgaard, Chester C. Langway and Hans Oeschger
  • http://calspace.ucsd.edu/virtualmuseum/climatechange2/07_2.shtml

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Ice Memory [Long] (5647 words)
In the early nineteen-sixties, Willi Dansgaard, a Danish chemist, proved that the ratio between the two in rainwater was related to the temperature.
Dansgaard took samples of rain from around the world and demonstrated that, by running them through a mass spectrometer, he could in most cases arrive at the average temperature of the spot where they had fallen.
Sigfus Johnsen was a student of Dansgaard's who worked with him on the Camp Century core, and he happened to be travelling to North GRIP at the same time I was.
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