image: The Dome Fuji ice core is cut into 50-cm pieces for packing. Markings on the core indicate the depth and orientation of each piece. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Feb. 8, 2017, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by K. Kawamura at National Institute of Polar Research in Tokyo, Japan, and colleagues was titled, 'State dependence of climatic instability over the past 720,000 years from Antarctic ice cores and climate modeling.' view more
Credit: [Credit: National Institute of Polar Research, Research Organization of Information and Systems, Tokyo, Japan]