102 results on '"Chappellaz, Jérôme"'
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2. Atmospheric Methane and Nitrous Oxide of the Late Pleistocene from Antarctic Ice Cores
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Spahni, Renato, Chappellaz, Jérôme, Stocker, Thomas F., Loulergue, Laetitia, Hausammann, Gregor, Kawamura, Kenji, Flückiger, Jacqueline, Schwander, Jakob, Raynaud, Dominique, Masson-Delmotte, Valérie, and Jouzel, Jean
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- 2005
3. Glacial/interglacial wetland, biomass burning, and geologic methane emissions constrained by dual stable isotopic CH₄ ice core records
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Bock, Michael, Schmitt, Jochen, Beck, Jonas, Seth, Barbara, Chappellaz, Jérôme, and Fischer, Hubertus
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- 2017
4. Southern Hemisphere atmospheric history of carbon monoxide over the late Holocene reconstructed from multiple Antarctic ice archives.
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Faïn, Xavier, Etheridge, David M., Fourteau, Kévin, Martinerie, Patricia, Trudinger, Cathy M., Rhodes, Rachael H., Chellman, Nathan J., Langenfelds, Ray L., McConnell, Joseph R., Curran, Mark A. J., Brook, Edward J., Blunier, Thomas, Teste, Grégory, Grilli, Roberto, Lemoine, Anthony, Sturges, William T., Vannière, Boris, Freitag, Johannes, and Chappellaz, Jérôme
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ATMOSPHERIC carbon monoxide ,ANTARCTIC ice ,LITTLE Ice Age ,ICE cores ,ATMOSPHERIC chemistry ,BIOMASS burning ,TRACE gases - Abstract
Carbon monoxide (CO) is a naturally occurring atmospheric trace gas, a regulated pollutant, and one of the main components determining the oxidative capacity of the atmosphere. Evaluating climate–chemistry models under different conditions than today and constraining past CO sources requires a reliable record of atmospheric CO mixing ratios ([CO]) that includes data since preindustrial times. Here, we report the first continuous record of atmospheric [CO] for Southern Hemisphere (SH) high latitudes over the past 3 millennia. Our continuous record is a composite of three high-resolution Antarctic ice core gas records and firn air measurements from seven Antarctic locations. The ice core gas [CO] records were measured by continuous flow analysis (CFA), using an optical feedback cavity-enhanced absorption spectrometer (OF-CEAS), achieving excellent external precision (2.8–8.8 ppb; 2σ) and consistently low blanks (ranging from 4.1±1.2 to 7.4±1.4 ppb), thus enabling paleo-atmospheric interpretations. Six new firn air [CO] Antarctic datasets collected between 1993 and 2016 CE at the DE08-2, DSSW19K, DSSW20K, South Pole, Aurora Basin North (ABN), and Lock-In sites (and one previously published firn CO dataset at Berkner) were used to reconstruct the atmospheric history of CO from ∼1897 CE, using inverse modeling that incorporates the influence of gas transport in firn. Excellent consistency was observed between the youngest ice core gas [CO] and the [CO] from the base of the firn and between the recent firn [CO] and atmospheric [CO] measurements at Mawson station (eastern Antarctica), yielding a consistent and contiguous record of CO across these different archives. Our Antarctic [CO] record is relatively stable from -835 to 1500 CE, with mixing ratios within a 30–45 ppb range (2 σ). There is a ∼5 ppb decrease in [CO] to a minimum at around 1700 CE during the Little Ice Age. CO mixing ratios then increase over time to reach a maximum of ∼54 ppb by ∼1985 CE. Most of the industrial period [CO] growth occurred between about 1940 to 1985 CE, after which there was an overall [CO] decrease, as observed in Greenland firn air and later at atmospheric monitoring sites and attributed partly to reduced CO emissions from combustion sources. Our Antarctic ice core gas CO observations differ from previously published records in two key aspects. First, our mixing ratios are significantly lower than reported previously, suggesting that previous studies underestimated blank contributions. Second, our new CO record does not show a maximum in the late 1800s. The absence of a [CO] peak around the turn of the century argues against there being a peak in Southern Hemisphere biomass burning at this time, which is in agreement with (i) other paleofire proxies such as ethane or acetylene and (ii) conclusions reached by paleofire modeling. The combined ice core and firn air [CO] history, spanning -835 to 1992 CE, extended to the present by the Mawson atmospheric record, provides a useful benchmark for future atmospheric chemistry modeling studies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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5. Comparative carbon cycle dynamics of the present and last interglacial
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Brovkin, Victor, Brücher, Tim, Kleinen, Thomas, Zaehle, Sönke, Joos, Fortunat, Roth, Raphael, Spahni, Renato, Schmitt, Jochen, Fischer, Hubertus, Leuenberger, Markus, Stone, Emma J., Ridgwell, Andy, Chappellaz, Jérôme, Kehrwald, Natalie, Barbante, Carlo, Blunier, Thomas, and Dahl Jensen, Dorthe
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- 2016
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6. A 2000-year temperature reconstruction on the East Antarctic plateau from argon–nitrogen and water stable isotopes in the Aurora Basin North ice core
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Servettaz, Aymeric, Orsi, Anaïs, Curran, Mark, Moy, Andrew, Landais, Amaelle, Mcconnell, Joseph, Popp, Trevor, Le Meur, Emmanuel, Faïn, Xavier, Chappellaz, Jérôme, Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement [Gif-sur-Yvette] (LSCE), Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences [Vancouver] (UBC EOAS), University of British Columbia (UBC), Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre (ACE-CRC), Glaces et Continents, Climats et Isotopes Stables (GLACCIOS), Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Desert Research Institute (DRI), Niels Bohr Institute [Copenhagen] (NBI), Faculty of Science [Copenhagen], University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (UCPH)-University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (UCPH), Institut des Géosciences de l’Environnement (IGE), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP ), and Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)
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[SDU.STU.CL]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Climatology - Abstract
International audience; The temperature of the Earth is one of the most important climate parameters. Proxy records of past climate changes, in particular temperature, represent a fundamental tool for exploring internal climate processes and natural climate forcings. Despite the excellent information provided by ice core records in Antarctica, the temperature variability of the past 2000 years is difficult to evaluate from the low-accumulation sites in the Antarctic continent interior. Here we present the results from the Aurora Basin North (ABN) ice core (71∘ S, 111∘ E, 2690 m a.s.l.) in the lower part of the East Antarctic plateau, where accumulation is substantially higher than other ice core drilling sites on the plateau, and provide unprecedented insight into East Antarctic past temperature variability. We reconstructed the temperature of the last 2000 years using two independent methods: the widely used water stable isotopes (δ18O) and by inverse modelling of borehole temperature and past temperature gradients estimated from the inert gas stable isotopes (δ40Ar and δ15N). This second reconstruction is based on three independent measurement types: borehole temperature, firn thickness, and firn temperature gradient. The δ18O temperature reconstruction supports stable temperature conditions within 1 ∘C over the past 2000 years, in agreement with other ice core δ18O records in the region. However, the gas and borehole temperature reconstruction suggests that surface conditions 2 ∘C cooler than average prevailed in the 1000–1400 CE period and supports a 20th century warming of 1 ∘C. A precipitation hiatus during cold periods could explain why water isotope temperature reconstruction underestimates the temperature changes. Both reconstructions arguably record climate in their own way, with a focus on atmospheric and hydrologic cycles for water isotopes, as opposed to surface temperature for gas isotopes and boreholes. This study demonstrates the importance of using a variety of sources for comprehensive paleoclimate reconstructions.
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- 2023
7. Relative Timing of Deglacial Climate Events in Antarctica and Greenland
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Morgan, Vin, Delmotte, Marc, van Ommen, Tas, Jouzel, Jean, Chappellaz, Jérôme, Woon, Suenor, Masson-Delmotte, Valérie, and Raynaud, Dominique
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- 2002
8. Carbon Isotope Constraints on the Deglacial CO₂ Rise from Ice Cores
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Schmitt, Jochen, Schneider, Robert, Elsig, Joachim, Leuenberger, Daiana, Lourantou, Anna, Chappellaz, Jérôme, Köhler, Peter, Joos, Fortunat, Stocker, Thomas F., Leuenberger, Markus, and Fischer, Hubertus
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- 2012
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9. Variations of air content in Dasuopu ice core from AD 1570–1927 and implications fore climate change
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Jiule, Li, Baiqing, Xu, and Chappellaz, Jérôme
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- 2011
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10. A 108.83-m ice-core record of atmospheric dust deposition at Mt. Qomolangma (Everest), Central Himalaya
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Xu, Jianzhong, Hou, Shugui, Qin, Dahe, Kaspari, Susan, Mayewski, Paul Andrew, Petit, Jean Robert, Delmonte, Barbara, Kang, Shichang, Ren, Jiawen, Chappellaz, Jerome, and Hong, Sungmin
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- 2010
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11. Chemical and isotopic analysis of hydrocarbon gas at trace levels: Methodology and results
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Huiban, Yvon, Noirez, Sonia, Prinzhofer, Alain, Girard, Jean Pierre, and Chappellaz, Jérôme
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- 2009
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12. Millennial-scale atmospheric CO2 variations during the Marine Isotope Stage 6 period (190–135 ka)
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Shin, Jinhwa, Nehrbass-Ahles, Christoph, Grilli, Roberto, Chowdhry Beeman, Jai, Parrenin, Frédéric, Teste, Grégory, Landais, Amaelle, Schmidely, Loïc, Silva, Lucas, Schmitt, Jochen, Bereiter, Bernhard, Stocker, Thomas F., Fischer, Hubertus, and Chappellaz, Jérôme
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Using new and previously published CO2 data from the EPICA Dome C ice core (EDC), we reconstruct a new high-resolution record of atmospheric CO2 during Marine Isotope Stage (MIS) 6 (190 to 135 ka) the penultimate glacial period. Similar to the last glacial cycle, where high-resolution data already exists, our record shows that during longer North Atlantic (NA) stadials, millennial CO2 variations during MIS 6 are clearly coincident with the bipolar seesaw signal in the Antarctic temperature record. However, during one short stadial in the NA, atmospheric CO2 variation is small (∼5 ppm) and the relationship between temperature variations in EDC and atmospheric CO2 is unclear. The magnitude of CO2 increase during Carbon Dioxide Maxima (CDM) is closely related to the NA stadial duration in both MIS 6 and MIS 3 (60–27 ka). This observation implies that during the last two glacials the overall bipolar seesaw coupling of climate and atmospheric CO2 operated similarly. In addition, similar to the last glacial period, CDM during the earliest MIS 6 show different lags with respect to the corresponding abrupt CH4 rises, the latter reflecting rapid warming in the Northern Hemisphere (NH). During MIS 6i at around 181.5±0.3 ka, CDM 6i lags the abrupt warming in the NH by only 240±320 years. However, during CDM 6iv (171.1±0.2 ka) and CDM 6iii (175.4±0.4 ka) the lag is much longer: 1290±540 years on average. We speculate that the size of this lag may be related to a larger expansion of carbon-rich, southern-sourced waters into the Northern Hemisphere in MIS 6, providing a larger carbon reservoir that requires more time to be depleted.
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- 2020
13. Northern Hemisphere atmospheric history of carbon monoxide since preindustrial times reconstructed from multiple Greenland ice cores.
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Faïn, Xavier, Rhodes, Rachael H., Place, Philip, Petrenko, Vasilii V., Fourteau, Kévin, Chellman, Nathan, Crosier, Edward, McConnell, Joseph R., Brook, Edward J., Blunier, Thomas, Legrand, Michel, and Chappellaz, Jérôme
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ICE cores ,ATMOSPHERIC carbon monoxide ,GREENLAND ice ,SNOW accumulation ,CORE drilling ,ATMOSPHERIC carbon dioxide ,ICE sheets ,OZONE layer - Abstract
Carbon monoxide (CO) is a regulated pollutant and one of the key components determining the oxidizing capacity of the atmosphere. Obtaining a reliable record of atmospheric CO mixing ratios ([CO]) since preindustrial times is necessary to evaluate climate–chemistry models under conditions different from today and to constrain past CO sources. We present high-resolution measurements of CO mixing ratios from ice cores drilled at five different sites on the Greenland ice sheet that experience a range of snow accumulation rates, mean surface temperatures, and different chemical compositions. An optical-feedback cavity-enhanced absorption spectrometer (OF-CEAS) was coupled with continuous melter systems and operated during four analytical campaigns conducted between 2013 and 2019. Overall, continuous flow analysis (CFA) of CO was carried out on over 700 m of ice. The CFA-based CO measurements exhibit excellent external precision (ranging from 3.3 to 6.6 ppbv , 1 σ) and achieve consistently low blanks (ranging from 4.1±1.2 to 12.6±4.4 ppbv), enabling paleoatmospheric interpretations. However, the five CO records all exhibit variability that is too large and rapid to reflect past atmospheric mixing ratio changes. Complementary tests conducted on discrete ice samples demonstrate that these variations are not artifacts of the analytical method (i.e., production of CO from organics in the ice during melting) but are very likely related to in situ CO production within the ice before analysis. Evaluation of the signal resolution and co-investigation of high-resolution records of CO and total organic carbon (TOC) suggest that past atmospheric CO variations can be extracted from the records' baselines with accumulation rates higher than 20 cm w.e.yr-1 (water equivalent per year). Consistent baseline CO records from four Greenland sites are combined to produce a multisite average ice core reconstruction of past atmospheric CO for the Northern Hemisphere high latitudes, covering the period from 1700 to 1957 CE. Such a reconstruction should be taken as an upper bound of past atmospheric CO abundance. From 1700 to 1875 CE, the record reveals stable or slightly increasing values in the 100–115 ppbv range. From 1875 to 1957 CE, the record indicates a monotonic increase from 114±4 to 147±6 ppbv. The ice core multisite CO record exhibits an excellent overlap with the atmospheric CO record from Greenland firn air which spans the 1950–2010 CE time period. The combined ice core and firn air CO history, spanning 1700–2010 CE, provides useful constraints for future model studies of atmospheric changes since the preindustrial period. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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14. Millennial-scale atmospheric CO2 variations during the Marine Isotope Stage 6 period (190–135 kyr BP)
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Shin, Jinhwa, Nehrbass-Ahles, Christoph, Grilli, Roberto, Chowdhry Beeman, Jai, Parrenin, Frédéric, Teste, Grégory, Landais, Amaelle, Schmidely, Loïc, Schmitt, Jochen, Stocker, Thomas F., Fischer, Hubertus, and Chappellaz, Jérôme
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Understanding natural carbon cycle/climate feedbacks on various time scales is highly relevant to reliably predict future climate changes. During the last two glacial periods, climate variations on millennial time scales were observed but the background conditions and duration of climate variations are different. Here we make use of contrasting climatic boundary conditions during the last two glacial periods to gain insight into the co-occurring carbon cycle changes. We reconstruct a new high-resolution record of atmospheric CO2 from the EPICA Dome C (EDC) ice core during Marine Isotope Stage (MIS) 6 (190 to 135 kyr BP). During long stadials in the North Atlantic (NA) region, atmospheric CO2 appears to be associated with the coeval Antarctic temperature changes at millennial time scale connected to the bipolar seesaw process. However, during one short stadial in the NA, atmospheric CO2 variation is negligible and the relationship between temperature variation in EDC and atmospheric CO2 is unclear. We suggest that the amplitude of CO2 variation may be affected by the duration of perturbations of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC). In addition, similar to the last glacial period, in the earliest MIS 6 (MIS 6e and 6d, corresponding to 189 to 169 kyr BP), Carbon Dioxide Maxima (CDM) show different lags with respect to the corresponding abrupt CH4 jumps, the latter reflecting rapid warming in the Northern Hemisphere (NH). During MIS 6e at around 181.5 ± 0.3 kyr BP, CDM 6e.2 lags abrupt warming in the NH by only 200 ± 360 yrs. During MIS 6d which corresponds to CDM 6d.1 (171.1 ±0.2 kyr BP) and CDM 6d.2 (175.4 ± 0.4 kyr BP), the lag is much longer, i.e., 1,400 ± 375 yrs on average. The timing of CO2 variations with respect to abrupt warming in the NH may be affected by a major change in the organization of the AMOC from MIS 6e to MIS 6d.
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- 2019
15. Rapid climate variability during warm and cold periods in polar regions and Europe
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Masson-Delmotte, Valérie, Landais, Amaëlle, Combourieu-Nebout, Nathalie, von Grafenstein, Ulrich, Jouzel, Jean, Caillon, Nicolas, Chappellaz, Jérôme, Dahl-Jensen, Dorthe, Johnsen, Sigfus J., and Stenni, Barbara
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- 2005
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16. Orbital and millennial-scale features of atmospheric CH4 over the past 800,000 years
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Loulergue, Laetitia, Schilt, Adrian, Spahni, Renato, Masson-Delmotte, Valérie, Blunier, Thomas, Lemieux, Bénédicte, Barnola, Jean-Marc, Raynaud, Dominique, Stocker, Thomas F., and Chappellaz, Jérôme
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- 2008
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17. What was the surface temperature in central Antarctica during the last glacial maximum?
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Blunier, Thomas, Schwander, Jakob, Chappellaz, Jérôme, Parrenin, Frédéric, and Barnola, Jean Marc
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- 2004
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18. CH4 and N2O fluctuations during the penultimate deglaciation.
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Schmidely, Loïc, Nehrbass-Ahles, Christoph, Schmitt, Jochen, Han, Juhyeong, Silva, Lucas, Shin, Jinwha, Joos, Fortunat, Chappellaz, Jérôme, Fischer, Hubertus, and Stocker, Thomas F.
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GLACIAL melting ,NITROUS oxide ,GLACIATION ,ICE cores - Abstract
Deglaciations are characterized by the largest natural changes in methane (CH 4) and nitrous oxide (N 2 O) concentrations of the past 800 000 years. Reconstructions of millennial- to centennial-scale variability within these periods are mostly restricted to the last deglaciation. In this study, we present composite records of CH 4 and N 2 O concentrations from the EPICA Dome C ice core covering the penultimate deglaciation at temporal resolutions of ∼100 years. Our data permit the identification of centennial-scale fluctuations during the transition from glacial to interglacial levels. At ∼134000 and ∼129000 years before present (hereafter ka), both CH 4 and N 2 O increased on centennial timescales. These abrupt rises are similar to the fluctuations associated with the Dansgaard–Oeschger events identified in the last glacial period. In addition, gradually rising N 2 O levels at ∼130 ka resemble a pattern of increasing N 2 O concentrations on millennial timescales characterizing the later part of Heinrich stadials. Overall, the events in CH 4 and N 2 O during the penultimate deglaciation exhibit modes of variability that are also found during the last deglaciation and glacial cycle, suggesting that the processes leading to changes in emission during the transitions were similar but their timing differed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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19. Northern Hemisphere atmospheric history of carbon monoxide since preindustrial times reconstructed from multiple Greenland ice cores.
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Faïn, Xavier, Rhodes, Rachael H., Philip, Place, Petrenko, Vasilii V., Fourteau, Kévin, Chellman, Nathan, Crosier, Edward, McConnell, Joseph R., Brook, Edward J., Blunier, Thomas, Legrand, Michel, and Chappellaz, Jérôme
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Carbon monoxide (CO) is a regulated pollutant and one of the key components determining the oxidizing capacity of the atmosphere. Obtaining a reliable record of atmospheric CO mixing ratios since pre-industrial times is necessary to evaluate climate-chemistry models in conditions different from today and to constrain past CO sources. We present high-resolution measurements of CO mixing ratios from ice cores drilled at five different sites on the Greenland ice sheet which experience a range of snow accumulation rates, mean surface temperatures, and different chemical compositions. An optical-feedback cavity-enhanced absorption spectrometer (OF-CEAS) was coupled to continuous melter systems and operated during four analytical campaigns conducted between 2013 and 2019. Overall, continuous flow analyses (CFA) of CO were carried out on over 700 m of ice. The CFA-based CO measurements exhibit excellent external precision (ranging 3.3-6.6 ppbv, 1sigma), and achieve consistently low blanks (ranging from 4.1+/-1.2 to 12.6+/-4.4 ppbv), enabling paleo-atmospheric interpretations. However the five CO records all exhibit variability too large and rapid to reflect past atmospheric mixing ratio changes. Complementary tests conducted on discrete ice samples demonstrate that these variations are not artifacts of the analytical method (i.e., production of CO from organics in the ice during melting), but very likely are related to in situ CO production within the ice before analysis. Evaluation of signal resolution and co-investigation of high-resolution records of CO and TOC show that past atmospheric CO variations can be extracted from the records' baselines at four sites with accumulation rates higher than 20 cm water equivalent per year (weq yr-1). However, such baselines should be taken as upper bounds of past atmospheric CO burden. Baseline CO records from four sites are combined to produce a multisite average ice core reconstruction of past atmospheric CO for the Northern Hemisphere high latitudes, covering the period from 1700 to 1957 CE. From 1700 to 1875 CE, the record reveals stable or slightly increasing values in the 100-115 ppbv range. From 1875 to 1957 CE, the record indicates a monotonic increase from 114+/-4 ppbv to 147+/-6 ppbv. The ice-core multisite CO record exhibits an excellent overlap with the atmospheric CO record from Greenland firn air which spans the 1950-2010 time period. The combined ice-core and firn air CO history, spanning 1700-2010 CE provides useful constraints for future model studies of atmospheric changes since the preindustrial period. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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20. Is there 1.5-million-year-old ice near Dome C, Antarctica?
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Parrenin, Frédéric, Cavitte, Marie G. P., Blankenship, Donald D., Chappellaz, Jérôme, Fischer, Hubertus, Gagliardini, Olivier, Masson-Delmotte, Valérie, Passalacqua, Olivier, Ritz, Catherine, Roberts, Jason, Siegert, Martin J., Young, Duncan A., Institut des Géosciences de l’Environnement (IGE), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes [2016-2019] (UGA [2016-2019]), Institute for Geophysics, University of Texas at Dallas [Richardson] (UT Dallas), Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers de Grenoble (OSUG ), Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes [2016-2019] (UGA [2016-2019]), Abteilung Klinische Sozialmedizin, Berufs- und Umweltdermatologie, Universität Heidelberg [Heidelberg], Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement [Gif-sur-Yvette] (LSCE), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ), Glaces et Continents, Climats et Isotopes Stables (GLACCIOS), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ), University of Queensland [Brisbane], Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), CLIPS, Laboratoire de glaciologie et géophysique de l'environnement (LGGE), Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers de Grenoble (OSUG), Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP)-Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA)-Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP)-Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA)-Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers de Grenoble (OSUG), Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP)-Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA)-Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP)-Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA)-Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Paris-Saclay-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire d'Informatique, Systèmes, Traitement de l'Information et de la Connaissance (LISTIC), Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry]), EDGe, Universität Heidelberg [Heidelberg] = Heidelberg University, Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
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[SDU.STU.CL]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Climatology ,[SDU.STU.GL]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Glaciology ,ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS - Abstract
Ice sheets provide exceptional archives of past changes in polar climate, regional environment and global atmospheric composition. The oldest dated deep ice core drilled in Antarctica has been retrieved at EPICA Dome C (EDC), reaching ∼ 800 000 years. Obtaining an older paleoclimatic record from Antarctica is one of the greatest challenges of the ice core community. Here, we use internal isochrones, identified from airborne radar coupled to ice-flow modelling to estimate the age of basal ice along transects in the Dome C area. Three glaciological properties are inferred from isochrones: surface accumulation rate, geothermal flux and the exponent of the Lliboutry velocity profile. We find that old ice (> 1.5 Myr, 1.5 million years) likely exists in two regions: one ∼ 40 km south-west of Dome C along the ice divide to Vostok, close to a secondary dome that we name Little Dome C (LDC), and a second region named North Patch (NP) located 10–30 km north-east of Dome C, in a region where the geothermal flux is apparently relatively low. Our work demonstrates the value of combining radar observations with ice flow modelling to accurately represent the true nature of ice flow, and understand the formation of ice-sheet architecture, in the centre of large ice sheets.
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21. CH4 and N2O fluctuations during the penultimate deglaciation.
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Schmidely, Loïc, Nehrbass-Ahles, Christoph, Schmitt, Jochen, Juhyeong Han, Silva, Lucas, Jinwha Shin, Joos, Fortunat, Chappellaz, Jérôme, Fischer, Hubertus, and Stocker, Thomas F.
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Deglaciations are characterized by the largest natural changes in methane (CH
4 ) and nitrous oxide (N2 O) concentrations of the past 800 thousand years. Reconstructions of millennial to centennial-scale variability within these periods are mostly restricted to the last deglaciation. In this study, we present composite records of CH4 and N2 O concentrations from the EPICA Dome C ice core covering the penultimate deglaciation at temporal resolutions of about ~?100 years. Our data permit the identification of centennial-scale fluctuations standing out of the overall transition to interglacial levels. These features occurred in concert with reinvigorations of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) and northward shifts of the Intertropical Convergence Zone. The abrupt CH4 and N2 O rises at about ~?134 and ~?128 thousand of years before present (hereafter ka?BP) are assimilated to the fluctuations accompanying the Dansgaard–Oeschger events of the last glacial period, while rising N2 O levels at ~?130.5?ka?BP are assimilated to a pattern of increasing N2 O concentrations that characterized the end of Heinrich stadials. We suggest the 130.5-ka event to be driven by a partial reinvigoration of the AMOC. Overall, the CH4 and N2 O fluctuations during the penultimate deglaciation exhibit modes of variability that are also found during the last deglaciation. However, trace gas responses may differ for similar type of climatic events, as exemplified by the reduced amplitude and duration of the 134-ka event compared to the fluctuations of the Bølling–Allerød during the last deglaciation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]- Published
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22. Estimation of gas record alteration in very low-accumulation ice cores.
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Fourteau, Kévin, Martinerie, Patricia, Faïn, Xavier, Ekaykin, Alexey A., Chappellaz, Jérôme, and Lipenkov, Vladimir
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ICE cores ,CARBON dioxide analysis ,GAS distribution ,DRILL cores ,AGE distribution - Abstract
We measured the methane mixing ratios of enclosed air in five ice core sections drilled on the East Antarctic Plateau. Our work aims to study two effects that alter the recorded gas concentrations in ice cores: layered gas trapping artifacts and firn smoothing. Layered gas trapping artifacts are due to the heterogeneous nature of polar firn, where some strata might close early and trap abnormally old gases that appear as spurious values during measurements. The smoothing is due to the combined effects of diffusive mixing in the firn and the progressive closure of bubbles at the bottom of the firn. Consequently, the gases trapped in a given ice layer span a distribution of ages. This means that the gas concentration in an ice layer is the average value over a certain period of time, which removes the fast variability from the record. Here, we focus on the study of East Antarctic Plateau ice cores, as these low-accumulation ice cores are particularly affected by both layering and smoothing. We use high-resolution methane data to test a simple trapping model reproducing the layered gas trapping artifacts for different accumulation conditions typical of the East Antarctic Plateau. We also use the high-resolution methane measurements to estimate the gas age distributions of the enclosed air in the five newly measured ice core sections. It appears that for accumulations below 2 cmiceequivalentyr-1 the gas records experience nearly the same degree of smoothing. We therefore propose to use a single gas age distribution to represent the firn smoothing observed in the glacial ice cores of the East Antarctic Plateau. Finally, we used the layered gas trapping model and the estimation of glacial firn smoothing to quantify their potential impacts on a hypothetical 1.5-million-year-old ice core from the East Antarctic Plateau. Our results indicate that layering artifacts are no longer individually resolved in the case of very thinned ice near the bedrock. They nonetheless contribute to slight biases of the measured signal (less than 10 ppbv and 0.5 ppmv in the case of methane using our currently established continuous CH4 analysis and carbon dioxide, respectively). However, these biases are small compared to the dampening experienced by the record due to firn smoothing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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23. Millennial-scale atmospheric CO2 variations during the Marine Isotope Stage 6 period (190-135 kyr BP).
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Jinhwa Shin, Nehrbass-Ahles, Christoph, Grilli, Roberto, Beeman, Jai Chowdhry, Parrenin, Frédéric, Teste, Grégory, Landais, Amaelle, Schmidely, Loïc, Schmitt, Jochen, Stocker, Thomas F., Fischer, Hubertus, and Chappellaz, Jérôme
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Understanding natural carbon cycle/climate feedbacks on various time scales is highly relevant to reliably predict future climate changes. During the last two glacial periods, climate variations on millennial time scales were observed but the background conditions and duration of climate variations are different. Here we make use of contrasting climatic boundary conditions during the last two glacial periods to gain insight into the co-occurring carbon cycle changes. We reconstruct a new high-resolution record of atmospheric CO
2 from the EPICA Dome C (EDC) ice core during Marine Isotope Stage (MIS) 6 (190 to 135 kyr BP). During long stadials in the North Atlantic (NA) region, atmospheric CO2 appears to be associated with the coeval Antarctic temperature changes at millennial time scale connected to the bipolar seesaw process. However, during one short stadial in the NA, atmospheric CO2 variation is negligible and the relationship between temperature variation in EDC and atmospheric CO2 is unclear. We suggest that the amplitude of CO2 variation may be affected by the duration of perturbations of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC). In addition, similar to the last glacial period, in the earliest MIS 6 (MIS 6e and 6d, corresponding to 189 to 169 kyr BP), Carbon Dioxide Maxima (CDM) show different lags with respect to the corresponding abrupt CH4 jumps, the latter reflecting rapid warming in the Northern Hemisphere (NH). During MIS 6e at around 181.5 ± 0.3 kyr BP, CDM 6e.2 lags abrupt warming in the NH by only 200 ± 360 yrs. During MIS 6d which corresponds to CDM 6d.1 (171.1 ±0.2 kyr BP) and CDM 6d.2 (175.4 ± 0.4 kyr BP), the lag is much longer, i.e., 1,400 ± 375 yrs on average. The timing of CO2 variations with respect to abrupt warming in the NH may be affected by a major change in the organization of the AMOC from MIS 6e to MIS 6d. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]- Published
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24. Continuous in situ measurement of dissolved methane in Lake Kivu using a membrane inlet laser spectrometer.
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Grilli, Roberto, Darchambeau, François, Chappellaz, Jérôme, Mugisha, Ange, Triest, Jack, and Umutoni, Augusta
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SPECTROMETERS ,WATER depth ,LAKES ,METHANE ,EXTRACTION techniques - Abstract
We report the first high-resolution continuous profile of dissolved methane in the shallow water of Lake Kivu, Rwanda. The measurements were performed using an in situ dissolved gas sensor, called Sub-Ocean, based on a patented membrane-based extraction technique coupled with a highly sensitive optical spectrometer. The sensor was originally designed for ocean settings, but both the spectrometer and the extraction system were modified to extend the dynamical range up to 6 orders of magnitude with respect to the original prototype (from nmol L -1 to mmol L -1 detection) to fit the range of concentrations at Lake Kivu. The accuracy of the instrument was estimated to ±22 % (2σ) from the standard deviation of eight profiles at 80 m depth, corresponding to ±0.112 mbar of CH4 in water or ±160 nmol L -1 at 25 ∘ C and 1 atm. The instrument was able to continuously profile the top 150 m of the water column within only 25 min. The maximum observed mixing ratio of CH4 in the gas phase concentration was 77 %, which at 150 m depth and under thermal conditions of the lake corresponds to 3.5 mmol L -1. Deeper down, dissolved CH4 concentrations were too large for the methane absorption spectrum to be correctly retrieved. Results are in good agreement with discrete in situ measurements conducted with the commercial HydroC
® sensor. This fast-profiling feature is highly useful for studying the transport, production and consumption of CH4 and other dissolved gases in aquatic systems. While the sensor is well adapted for investigating most environments with a concentration of CH4 up to a few millimoles per liter, in the future the spectrometer could be replaced with a less sensitive analytical technique possibly including simultaneous detection of dissolved CO2 and total dissolved gas pressure, for exploring settings with very high concentrations of CH4 such as the bottom waters of Lake Kivu. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]- Published
- 2020
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25. Estimation of gas record alteration in very low accumulation ice cores.
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Fourteau, Kévin, Martinerie, Patricia, Faïn, Xavier, Ekaykin, Alexey A., Chappellaz, Jérôme, and Lipenkov, Vladimir
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We measured the methane mixing ratios of enclosed air in five ice core sections drilled on the East Antarctic plateau. Our work aims to study two effects that affect the recorded gas concentrations in ice cores: layered gas trapping artifacts and firn smoothing. Layered gas trapping artifacts are due to the heterogeneous nature of polar firn, where some strata might close early and trap abnormally old gases that appear as spurious values during measurements. The smoothing is due to the combined effects of diffusive mixing in the firn and the progressive closure of bubbles at the bottom of the firn. Consequently, the gases trapped in a given ice layer span a distribution of ages. Concentration measurements thus only measure the average value in the ice layer, which removes the fast variability from the record. We focus on the study of East Antarctic plateau ice cores, as these low accumulation ice cores are particularly affected by both layering and smoothing. Our results suggest that the presence of layering artifacts in deep ice cores is linked with the chemical content of the ice. We use high-resolution methane data to parametrize a simple model reproducing the layered gas trapping artifacts for different accumulation conditions typical of the East Antarctic plateau. We also use the high-resolution methane measurements to estimate the gas age distributions of the enclosed air in the five newly measured ice core sections. It appears that for accumulations below 2 cm ie yr
-1 (ice equivalent) the gas records experience nearly the same degree of smoothing. We therefore propose to use a single gas age distribution to represent the firn smoothing observed in the glacial ice cores of the East Antarctic plateau. Finally, we used the layered gas trapping model and the estimation of glacial firn smoothing to estimate their potential impacts on a million-and-a-half years old ice core from the East Antarctic plateau. Our results indicate that layering artifacts are no longer individually resolved in the case of very thinned ice near the bedrock. They nonetheless contribute to slight biases of the measured signal (less than 10 ppbv and 0.5 ppmv in the case of methane and carbon dioxide). However, these biases are small compared to the dampening experienced by the record due to firn smoothing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]- Published
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26. Continuous In Situ Measurement of Dissolved Methane in Lake Kivu Using a Membrane Inlet Laser Spectrometer.
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Grilli, Roberto, Darchambeau, François, Chappellaz, Jérôme, Mugisha, Ange, Triest, Jack, and Umutoni, Augusta
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SPECTROMETERS ,LAKES ,WATER depth ,METHANE ,EXTRACTION techniques - Abstract
We report the first high resolution continuous profile of dissolved methane in the shallow water of Lake Kivu, Rwanda. The measurements were performed using an in situ dissolved gas sensor, called Sub-Ocean, based on a patented, membrane based extraction technique coupled with a highly sensitive optical spectrometer. The sensor was originally designed for ocean settings, but both the spectrometer and the extraction system were modified to extend the dynamical range up to six orders of magnitude with respect to the original prototype (from nmol L
-1 to mmol L-1 detection) to fit the range of concentrations at lake Kivu. The accuracy of the instrument was estimated to ±22 % (2 s) from the standard deviation of eight profiles at 80 m of depth, corresponding to ±112 μBar of CH4 in water or ±160 nmol L-1 at 25 °C and 1 atm. The instrument was able to continuously measure the top 150 m of water depth within only 25 min. The maximum observed mixing ratio of CH4 in the gas phase concentration was 77 % at 150 m depth, which at this depth and thermal condition of the lake corresponds to 3.5 mmol L-1 . At deeper depth, dissolved CH4 concentrations were too large for the methane absorption spectrum to be correctly retrieved. Results were in good agreement with discrete in situ measurements conducted with the commercial HydroC sensor. The fast profiling feature will be highly profitable for future monitoring of the lake, while the spectrometer could be replaced with a less sensitive analytical technique possibly including simultaneous detection of dissolved CO2 and which would allow to measure at higher concentrations of CH4 . [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]- Published
- 2019
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27. High-resolution underwater laser spectrometer sensing provides new insights into methane distribution at an Arctic seepage site.
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Jansson, Pär, Triest, Jack, Grilli, Roberto, Ferré, Bénédicte, Silyakova, Anna, Mienert, Jürgen, and Chappellaz, Jérôme
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WATER seepage ,SPECTROMETERS ,ECHO sounders ,CONTINENTAL slopes ,OCEAN acidification - Abstract
Methane (CH4) in marine sediments has the potential to contribute to changes in the ocean and climate system. Physical and biochemical processes that are difficult to quantify with current standard methods such as acoustic surveys and discrete sampling govern the distribution of dissolved CH4 in oceans and lakes. Detailed observations of aquatic CH4 concentrations are required for a better understanding of CH4 dynamics in the water column, how it can affect lake and ocean acidification, the chemosynthetic ecosystem, and mixing ratios of atmospheric climate gases. Here we present pioneering high-resolution in situ measurements of dissolved CH4 throughout the water column over a 400 m deep CH4 seepage area at the continental slope west of Svalbard. A new fast-response underwater membrane-inlet laser spectrometer sensor demonstrates technological advances and breakthroughs for ocean measurements. We reveal decametre-scale variations in dissolved CH4 concentrations over the CH4 seepage zone. Previous studies could not resolve such heterogeneity in the area, assumed a smoother distribution, and therefore lacked both details on and insights into ongoing processes. We show good repeatability of the instrument measurements, which are also in agreement with discrete sampling. New numerical models, based on acoustically evidenced free gas emissions from the seafloor, support the observed heterogeneity and CH4 inventory. We identified sources of CH4 , undetectable with echo sounder, and rapid diffusion of dissolved CH4 away from the sources. Results from the continuous ocean laser-spectrometer measurements, supported by modelling, improve our understanding of CH4 fluxes and related physical processes over Arctic CH4 degassing regions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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28. Simultaneous detection of C2H6, CH4, and δ13C-CH4 using optical feedback cavity-enhanced absorption spectroscopy in the mid-infrared region: towards application for dissolved gas measurements.
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Lechevallier, Loic, Grilli, Roberto, Kerstel, Erik, Romanini, Daniele, and Chappellaz, Jérôme
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OPTICAL feedback ,SPECTRUM analysis ,INFRARED absorption ,OPTICAL resonators ,ABSORPTION coefficients ,ABSORPTION - Abstract
Simultaneous measurement of C2H6 and CH4 concentrations, and of the δ13C - CH4 isotope ratio is demonstrated using a cavity-enhanced absorption spectroscopy technique in the mid-IR region. The spectrometer is compact and has been designed for field operation. It relies on optical-feedback-assisted injection of 3.3 µ m radiation from an interband cascade laser (ICL) into a V-shaped high-finesse optical cavity. A minimum absorption coefficient of 2.8×10-9 cm -1 is obtained in a single scan (0.1 s) over 0.7 cm -1. Precisions of 3 ppbv, 11 ppbv, and 0.08 ‰ for C2H6 , CH4 , and δ13C - CH4 , respectively, are achieved after 400 s of integration time. Laboratory calibrations and tests of performance are reported here. They show the potential for the spectrometer to be embedded in a sensor probe for in situ measurements in ocean waters, which could have important applications for the understanding of the source and fate of hydrocarbons from the seabed and in the water column. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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29. High-resolution under-water laser spectrometer sensing provides new insights to methane distribution at an Arctic seepage site.
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Jansson, Pär, Triest, Jack, Grilli, Roberto, Ferré, Bénédicte, Silyakova, Anna, Mienert, Jürgen, and Chappellaz, Jérôme
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WATER seepage ,SPECTROMETERS ,CONTINENTAL slopes ,OCEAN acidification ,MARINE sediments - Abstract
Methane (CH
4 ) in marine sediments has the potential to contribute to changes in the ocean- and climate system. Physical and biochemical processes that are difficult to quantify with current standard methods such as acoustic surveys and discrete sampling govern the distribution of dissolved CH4 in oceans and lakes. Detailed observations of aquatic CH4 concentrations are required for a better understanding of CH4 dynamics in the water column, how it can affect lake- and ocean acidification, the chemosynthetic ecosystem, and mixing ratios of atmospheric climate gases. Here we present pioneering high-resolution in-situ measurements of dissolved CH4 throughout the water column over a 400 m deep CH4 seepage area at the continental slope west of Svalbard. A new fast-response under-water membrane-inlet laser spectrometer sensor demonstrates technological advances and breakthroughs for ocean measurements. We reveal decametre-scale variations of dissolved CH4 concentrations over the CH4 seepage zone. Previous studies could not resolve such heterogeneity in the area, assumed smoother distribution and therefore lacked both details and insights to ongoing processes. We show good repeatability of the instrument measurements, which are also in agreement with discrete sampling. New numerical models, based on acoustically evidenced free gas emissions from the seafloor, support the observed heterogeneity and CH4 inventory. We identified sources of CH4 , undetectable with echosounder, and rapid diffusion of dissolved CH4 away from the sources. Results from the continuous ocean laser-spectrometer measurements, supported by modelling, improve our understanding of CH4 fluxes and related physical processes over Arctic CH4 degassing regions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]- Published
- 2019
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30. Simultaneous Detection of C2H6, CH4 and δ13C-CH4 Using Optical Feedback Cavity Enhanced Absorption Spectroscopy in the Mid-Infrared Region: Towards Application for Dissolved Gas Measurements.
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Grilli, Roberto, Chappellaz, Jérôme, Lechevallier, Loic, Kerstel, Erik, and Romanini, Daniele
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ISOTOPES , *SPECTROMETERS , *HYDROCARBONS - Abstract
Simultaneous measurement of C2H6 and CH4 concentrations, and of the δ13C-CH4 isotope ratio is demonstrated using a cavity enhanced absorption spectroscopy technique in the mid-IR region. The spectrometer is compact and has been designed for field operation. It relies on optical-feedback assisted injection of 3.3-μm radiation from an Interband Cascade Laser (ICL) into a V-shaped high-finesse optical cavity. A minimum absorption coefficient of 2.8×10−9cm−1 is obtained in a single scan (0.1s) over 0.7cm−1. Precisions of 3ppbv, 11ppbv, and 0.08‰ for C2H6, CH4, and δ13C-CH4, respectively, are achieved after 400s of integration time. Laboratory calibrations and tests of performance are reported here. They show the potential for the spectrometer to be embedded in a sensor probe for in situ measurements in ocean waters, which could have important applications for the understanding of the source and fate of hydrocarbons from the seabed and in the water column. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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31. Continuous methane measurements from a late Holocene Greenland ice core: Atmospheric and in-situ signals
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Rhodes, Rachael H., Faïn, Xavier, Stowasser, Christopher, Blunier, Thomas, Chappellaz, Jérôme, McConnell, Joseph R., Romanini, Daniele, Mitchell, Logan E., and Brook, Edward J.
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32. Where to find 1.5 million year old ice for the IPICS 'Oldest Ice' ice core
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Fischer, Hubertus, Severinghaus, Jeff, Brook, Ed, Wolff, Eric W., Albert, Mary, Alemany, Olivier, Arthern, Rob, Bentley, Charles, Blankenship, Donald, Chappellaz, Jérôme A, Creyts, Timothy, Dahl-Jensen, Dorthe, Dinn, Michael, Frezzotti, Massimo, Fujita, Shuji, Gallee, Hubert, Hindmarsh, Richard, Hudspeth, Don, Jugie, Gerard, Kawamura, Kenji, Lipenkov, Vladimir, Miller, Heinz, Mulvaney, Rob, Pattyn, Frank, Ritz, Catherine, Schwander, Jakob, Steinhage, Daniel, Van Ommen, Tas, and Wilhelms, Frank
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33. Sub-Ocean: Subsea Dissolved Methane Measurements Using an Embedded Laser Spectrometer Technology.
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Grilli, Roberto, Triest, Jack, Chappellaz, Jérôme, Calzas, Michel, Desbois, Thibault, Jansson, Pär, Guillerm, Christophe, Ferré, Bénédicte, Lechevallier, Loïc, Ledoux, Victor, and Romanini, Daniele
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- 2018
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34. Analytical constraints on layered gas trapping and smoothing of atmospheric variability in ice under low-accumulation conditions.
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Fourteau, Kévin, Faïn, Xavier, Martinerie, Patricia, Landais, Amaëlle, Ekaykin, Alexey A., Lipenkov, Vladimir Ya., and Chappellaz, Jérôme
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METHANE ,ICE cores ,SOIL densification ,PRECIPITATION anomalies ,ATMOSPHERIC composition - Abstract
We investigate for the first time the loss and alteration of past atmospheric information from air trapping mechanisms under low-accumulation conditions through continuous CH
4 (and CO) measurements. Methane concentration changes were measured over the Dansgaard- Oeschger event 17 (DO-17, ∼ 60000yrBP) in the Antarctic Vostok 4G-2 ice core. Measurements were performed using continuous-flow analysis combined with laser spectroscopy. The results highlight many anomalous layers at the centimeter scale that are unevenly distributed along the ice core. The anomalous methane mixing ratios differ from those in the immediate surrounding layers by up to 50ppbv. This phenomenon can be theoretically reproduced by a simple layered trapping model, creating very localized gas age scale inversions. We propose a method for cleaning the record of anomalous values that aims at minimizing the bias in the overall signal. Once the layered-trapping-induced anomalies are removed from the record, DO-17 appears to be smoother than its equivalent record from the high-accumulation WAIS Divide ice core. This is expected due to the slower sinking and densification speeds of firn layers at lower accumulation. However, the degree of smoothing appears surprisingly similar between modern and DO-17 conditions at Vostok. This suggests that glacial records of trace gases from low-accumulation sites in the East Antarctic plateau can provide a better time resolution of past atmospheric composition changes than previously expected. We also developed a numerical method to extract the gas age distributions in ice layers after the removal of the anomalous layers based on comparison with a weakly smoothed record. It is particularly adapted for the conditions of the East Antarctic plateau, as it helps to characterize smoothing for a large range of very low-temperature and low-accumulation conditions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]- Published
- 2017
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35. Atmospheric impacts and ice core imprints of a methane pulse from clathrates
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Bock, Josué, Martinerie, Patricia, Witrant, Emmanuel, and Chappellaz, Jérôme
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36. The atmospheric CH4 increase since the Last Glacial Maximum
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CHAPPELLAZ, JÉRÔME A., FUNG, INEZ Y., and THOMPSON, ANNE M.
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An estimate of the distribution of wetland area and associated CH4 emission is presented for the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM, 18 kyr BP, kiloyear Before Present) and the Pre-Industrial Holocene (PIH, 9000–200 years BP). The wetland source, combined with estimates of the other biogenic sources and sink, yields total source strengths of 120 and 180 Tg CH4/yr for LGM and PIH respectively. These source strengths are shown to be consistent with source estimates inferred from a photochemical model, and point to changes in wetland CH4 source as a major factor driving the atmospheric CH4 increase from LGM to PIH.DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0889.1993.t01-2-00002.x
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37. On the suitability of partially clathrated ice for analysis of concentration and δ 13C of palaeo-atmospheric CO 2
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Schaefer, Hinrich, Lourantou, Anna, Chappellaz, Jérôme, Lüthi, Dieter, Bereiter, Bernhard, and Barnola, Jean-Marc
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38. Marine Isotope Stage (MIS) 8 millennial variability stratigraphically identical to MIS 3
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Siddall, Mark, F. Stocker, Thomas, Blunier, Thomas, Spahni, Renato, Schwander, Jakob, Barnola, Jean-Marc, Chappellaz, Jérôme, Climate and Environmental Physics [Bern] (CEP), Physikalisches Institut [Bern], Universität Bern [Bern]-Universität Bern [Bern], Laboratoire de glaciologie et géophysique de l'environnement (LGGE), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers de Grenoble (OSUG), Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), STOPFEN European Network research project (HPRN-CT-2002-00221), European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica (EPICA), Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers de Grenoble (OSUG), and Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP)-Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA)-Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP)-Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA)-Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
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stratigraphy ,marine isotope stage ,Dome Fuji ,East Antarctica ,MIS 8 ,MIS 3 ,climate variation ,ice sheet ,Milankovitch cycle ,Dome Concordia ,paleoclimate ,Antarctica ,D-O variability ,[SDU.STU.GL]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Glaciology ,ice core - Abstract
The Marine Isotope Stage (MIS) 3 stratigraphy is highly robust and was reproduced during another period: MIS 8.6 global ice volume was similar during MIS 8.6 to MIS 3 (60 to 90 m sea level equivalent), but the Milankovitch insolation forcing was different, implying that Earth's predisposition to millennial internal variability is controlled by the configuration of the major ice sheets. The involvement of additional factors cannot be ruled out but by identifying several such periods using new deep ice cores from Dome Concordia and Dome Fuji (Antarctica) as well as the marine record we may isolate the factors predisposing Earth to these highly significant modes of climate variability. Copyright 2007 by the American Geophysical Union.
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39. Glacial/interglacial wetland, biomass burning, and geologic methane emissions constrained by dual stable isotopic CH4 ice core records.
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Bock, Michael, Schmitt, Jochen, Beck, Jonas, Seth, Barbara, Fischer, Hubertus, and Chappellaz, Jérôme
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ATMOSPHERIC methane ,ICE cores ,WETLANDS ,INTERGLACIALS ,PLEISTOCENE Epoch - Abstract
Atmospheric methane (CH
4 ) records reconstructed from polar ice cores represent an integrated view on processes predominantly taking place in the terrestrial biogeosphere. Here, we present dual stable isotopic methane records [δ13CH4 and δD(CH4 )] from four Antarctic ice cores, which provide improved constraints on past changes in natural methane sources. Our isotope data show that tropical wetlands and seasonally inundated floodplains are most likely the controlling sources of atmospheric methane variations for the current and two older interglacials and their preceding glacial maxima. The changes in these sources are steered by variations in temperature, precipitation, and the water table as modulated by insolation, (local) sea level, and monsoon intensity. Based on our δD(CH4 ) constraint, it seems that geologic emissions of methane may play a steady but only minor role in atmospheric CH4 changes and that the glacial budget is not dominated by these sources. Superimposed on the glacial/interglacial variations is a marked difference in both isotope records, with systematically higher values during the last 25,000 y compared with older time periods. This shift cannot be explained by climatic changes. Rather, our isotopic methane budget points to a marked increase in fire activity, possibly caused by biome changes and accumulation of fuel related to the late Pleistocene megafauna extinction, which took place in the course of the last glacial. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]- Published
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40. δ13C of carbon dioxide in ancient air from ice core samples
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V. Lavric, J., Barnola, Jean-Marc, Chappellaz, Jérôme, C. Leunberger, M., Fischer, H., Raynaud, D., Laboratoire de glaciologie et géophysique de l'environnement (LGGE), Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers de Grenoble (OSUG), Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP)-Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA)-Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP)-Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA)-Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Climate and Environmental Physics [Bern] (CEP), Physikalisches Institut [Bern], Universität Bern [Bern]-Universität Bern [Bern], Abteilung Klinische Sozialmedizin, Berufs- und Umweltdermatologie, Universität Heidelberg [Heidelberg], Gayraud, Aurore, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers de Grenoble (OSUG), and Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
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[SDU.STU.GL]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Glaciology ,[SDU.STU.GL] Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Glaciology - Abstract
International audience; The concentration and stable carbon isotope composition δ13CO2) of carbon dioxide (CO2) trapped in ancient ice are essential for the reconstruction of the paleo record of greenhouse gases, the study of the global carbon cycle, and the prediction of the future climatic evolution. At present, high-resolution ice core δ13CO2 data for larger time spans are scarce. New analytical methods are being developed with the objective to increase the time resolution smaller sample size), to improve the accuracy of the measurements, and, particularly in clathrate ice, to optimize the extraction efficiency. The recent analytical improvements include different continuous flow setups (LGGE, University of Bern) and off-line extraction by sublimation (AWI). Thus obtained higher sensitivity to changes in the δ13CO2 record is important in view of the small variations of few tens of a per mill observed in previous studies. The ongoing measurements are performed primarily on ice from two Antarctic drilling sites, the EPICA Dome Concordia EDC) and Dronning Maud Land (EDML). We will present the status of δ13CO2 and associated CO2 concentrations data from ice cores with a focus on the Holocene and the recent glacial–interglacial transitions, and discuss the available constraints that they provide on the global carbon system and its past variations.
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41. Records of the δ13C of atmospheric CH4 over the last 2 centuries as recorded in Antarctic snow and ice
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Sowers, Todd, Bernard, Sophie, Aballain, Olivier, Chappellaz, Jérôme, Barnola, Jean-Marc, Marik, Thomas, Department of Geosciences and the Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, Pennsylvania State University (Penn State), Penn State System-Penn State System, Laboratoire de glaciologie et géophysique de l'environnement (LGGE), Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers de Grenoble (OSUG), Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP)-Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA)-Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP)-Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA)-Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institute of Environmental Physics [Heidelberg] (IUP), Universität Heidelberg [Heidelberg], Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers de Grenoble (OSUG), and Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
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methane ,Antarctica ,anthropogenic effect ,[SDU.STU.GL]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Glaciology ,ice core ,paleoatmosphere - Abstract
Methane is one of the important greenhouse gases accumulating in the atmosphere today. The increased loading over the past 2 centuries is thought to be the result of increased anthropogenic emissions. Here we present records of the δ13C of CH4 in firn air from the South Pole and in trapped bubbles in a short ice core from Siple Dome, Antarctica, that help constrain historical emissions of various sources throughout the last 2 centuries. Using two firn air samplings in 1995 and 2001 we calculate that δ 13CH4 has increased by an average of 0.06 ± 0.02‰/yr over the 6 years between samplings. Our ice core results suggest the δ13C of atmospheric CH4 has increased by 1.8 ± 0.2‰ between 1820 A.D. and 2001 A.D. The δ13CH4 changes in both data sets are the result of an increase in the relative proportion of CH4 sources with elevated 13C/12C isotope ratios. One explanation for observed trends involves a 16 Tg/yr increase in CH4 emissions associated with biomass burning over the past 2 centuries. Copyright 2005 by the American Geophysical Union.
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42. Atmospheric nitrous oxide during the last 140,000 years
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Schilt, Adrian, Baumgartner, Matthias, Schwander, Jakob, Buiron, Daphné, Capron, Emilie, Chappellaz, Jérôme, Loulergue, Laetitia, Schüpbach, Simon, Spahni, Renato, Fischer, Hubertus, and Stocker, Thomas F.
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43. Impact of refrigeration temperature history on d15N of air bubbles trapped in polar ice samples
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Caillon, Nicolas, Severinghaus, Jeffrey, Chappellaz, Jérôme, Jouzel, Jean, Masson-Delmotte, Valérie, Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement [Gif-sur-Yvette] (LSCE), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ), Glaces et Continents, Climats et Isotopes Stables (GLACCIOS), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ), Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO), University of California [San Diego] (UC San Diego), University of California-University of California, IPSL, Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO - UC San Diego), and University of California (UC)-University of California (UC)
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[SDU.OCEAN]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Ocean, Atmosphere ,[SDU.ENVI]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Continental interfaces, environment - Published
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44. Glaciochemistry of polar ice cores: a review
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Legrand, Michel, Chappellaz, Jérôme, Gayraud, Aurore, N. Chaumerliac et al., Laboratoire de glaciologie et géophysique de l'environnement (LGGE), Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers de Grenoble (OSUG), Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP)-Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA)-Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP)-Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA)-Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers de Grenoble (OSUG), and Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
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[SDU.STU.GL]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Glaciology ,[SDU.STU.GL] Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Glaciology - Published
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45. Fluorocarbon tracers of the age of air in Alpine firn
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Sturges, W. T., Penkett, S. A., Barnola, J.M., Chappellaz, Jérôme, School of Environmental Sciences [Norwich], University of East Anglia [Norwich] (UEA), Laboratoire de glaciologie et géophysique de l'environnement (LGGE), Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers de Grenoble (OSUG), Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP)-Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA)-Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP)-Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA)-Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), E. Wolff and R. Bales, Gayraud, Aurore, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers de Grenoble (OSUG), and Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
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[SDU.STU.GL]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Glaciology ,[SDU.STU.GL] Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Glaciology - Published
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46. Trends in global distribution of trace gases from polar ice cores
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Legrand, Michel, Raynaud, D., Barnola, J.M., Chappellaz, Jérôme, Laboratoire de glaciologie et géophysique de l'environnement (LGGE), Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers de Grenoble (OSUG), Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP)-Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA)-Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP)-Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA)-Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), G.K. Moortgat, A.J. Barnes, G. Le Bras and J.R. Sodeau, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers de Grenoble (OSUG), Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Gayraud, Aurore, and G.K. Moortgat, A.J. Barnes, G. Le Bras and J.R. Sodeau
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[SDU.STU.GL]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Glaciology ,[SDU.STU.GL] Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Glaciology - Abstract
544 pp. ISBN 3-540-58111-1 / 0-387-58111-1
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- 1994
47. A 70 ka record of explosive eruptions from the TALDICE ice core (Talos Dome, East Antarctic plateau).
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Narcisi, Biancamaria, Petit, Jean Robert, and Chappellaz, Jérôme
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- 2010
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48. Orbital and millennial-scale features of atmospheric CH4 over the past 800,000 years.
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Loulergue, Laetitia, Schilt, Adrian, Spahni, Renato, Masson-Delmotte, Valérie, Blunier, Thomas, Lemieux, Bénédicte, Barnola, Jean-Marc, Raynaud, Dominique, Stocker, Thomas F., and Chappellaz, Jérôme
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ATMOSPHERIC methane ,GREENHOUSE gases ,ATMOSPHERIC chemistry ,SPECTRUM analysis ,CLIMATE change ,OXIDATION ,METHANE ,ATMOSPHERIC temperature ,PHYSICAL sciences - Abstract
Atmospheric methane is an important greenhouse gas and a sensitive indicator of climate change and millennial-scale temperature variability. Its concentrations over the past 650,000 years have varied between ∼350 and ∼800 parts per 10
9 by volume (p.p.b.v.) during glacial and interglacial periods, respectively. In comparison, present-day methane levels of ∼1,770 p.p.b.v. have been reported. Insights into the external forcing factors and internal feedbacks controlling atmospheric methane are essential for predicting the methane budget in a warmer world. Here we present a detailed atmospheric methane record from the EPICA Dome C ice core that extends the history of this greenhouse gas to 800,000 yr before present. The average time resolution of the new data is ∼380 yr and permits the identification of orbital and millennial-scale features. Spectral analyses indicate that the long-term variability in atmospheric methane levels is dominated by ∼100,000 yr glacial–interglacial cycles up to ∼400,000 yr ago with an increasing contribution of the precessional component during the four more recent climatic cycles. We suggest that changes in the strength of tropical methane sources and sinks (wetlands, atmospheric oxidation), possibly influenced by changes in monsoon systems and the position of the intertropical convergence zone, controlled the atmospheric methane budget, with an additional source input during major terminations as the retreat of the northern ice sheet allowed higher methane emissions from extending periglacial wetlands. Millennial-scale changes in methane levels identified in our record as being associated with Antarctic isotope maxima events are indicative of ubiquitous millennial-scale temperature variability during the past eight glacial cycles. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]- Published
- 2008
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49. CO2 isotopes as tracers of firn air diffusion and age in an Arctic ice cap with summer melting, Devon Island, Canada.
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Clark, Ian D., Henderson, Lori, Chappellaz, Jérôme, Fisher, David, Koerner, Roy, Worthy, Douglas E. J., Kotzer, Tom, Norman, Ann-Lise, and Barnola, Jean-Marc
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- 2007
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50. Records of the δ13C of atmospheric CH4 over the last 2 centuries as recorded in Antarctic snow and ice.
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Sowers, Todd, Bernard, Sophie, Aballain, Olivier, Chappellaz, Jérôme, Barnola, Jean-Marc, and Marik, Thomas
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GASES ,AIR pollution ,EMISSIONS (Air pollution) ,GREENHOUSE gases ,AIR quality ,ASBESTOS in building - Abstract
Methane is one of the important greenhouse gases accumulating in the atmosphere today. The increased loading over the past 2 centuries is thought to be the result of increased anthropogenic emissions. Here we present records of the δ
13 C of CH4 in firn air from the South Pole and in trapped bubbles in a short ice core from Siple Dome, Antarctica, that help constrain historical emissions of various sources throughout the last 2 centuries. Using two firn air samplings in 1995 and 2001 we calculate that δ13 CH4 has increased by an average of 0.06 ± 0.02‰/yr over the 6 years between samplings. Our ice core results suggest the δ13 C of atmospheric CH4 , has increased by 1.8 ± 0.2‰ between 1820 A.D. and 2001 AD. The δ13 CH4 changes in both data sets are the result of an increase in the relative proportion of CH4 sources with elevated13 C/12 C isotope ratios. One explanation for observed trends involves a 16 Tg/yr increase in CH4 emissions associated with biomass burning over the past 2 centuries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]- Published
- 2005
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