Information theory offers new way to read ice cores

Information theory offers new way to read ice cores Santa Fe NM (SPX) Dec 07, 2016 - At two miles long and five inches in diameter, the West Antarctic Ice Sheet Divide (WAIS) ice core is a tangible record of the last 68,000 years of our planet's climate. Completed in 2011, the core is packed with information, but it's also packed with noise and error, making the climate story hard to read. Figuring out whether blips in the data are evidence of humans spewing carbon into the atmo ... more

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