In the Antarctic Peninsula, the ice floor can be over 950 meters thick. (Put in perspective, that’s just under nine football fields of solid ice.) A group of British scientists wanted to analyze the lower layers of ice, which developed over 40,000 years ago, in order to determine the Earth’s long-term climate change patterns—but how?
Using NI LabVIEW software, the NI Vision platform, and data acquisition hardware, climate scientists of the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) built a system to analyze 650 individual ice core sections they drilled from the northern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula.
Watch a video of the process and get more information here.
