Ice texture data from ice core, NEEM, Greenland, 2007-2012

NEEM (North Greenland Eemian Ice Drilling) was an international ice core research project in Greenland. As other projects like GRIP and NGRIP, this ice core had the goal to extract informations and data about the last interglacial period. The project was directed and organized by the Danish former Centre for Ice and Climate at the Niels Bohr Institute and US NSF, Office of Polar Programs. It was supported by funding agencies and institutions in Belgium (FNRS-CFB and FWO), Canada (NRCan/GSC), China(CAS), Denmark (FIST), France (IPEV, CNRS/INSU, CEA and ANR), Germany (AWI), Iceland (RannIs), Japan (NIPR), South Korea (KOPRI), the Netherlands (NWO/ ALW), Sweden (VR), Switzerland (SNF), the United Kingdom (NERC) and the USA (US NSF, Office of Polar Programs) and the EU Seventh Framework programmes Past4Future and WaterundertheIce The coring site was located in North West Greenland (camp position 77.45°N 51.06°W). The drilling took place between 2007 and 2012. For more information about the project: https://neem.dk/, NEEM community members (doi:https://doi.org/10.1038/nature11789 ). The data provided here is published in Montagnat et al., (2014) (doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-8-1129-2014) The dataset contains texture data (crystallographic orientations) measured on thin sections of ice extracted along the 2540 m depth ice core. The ice core has been subdivided and stored into core sections (also called “bags”) of 0.55 m long.