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1. Snow chemistry across Antarctica

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Bertler, N., Mayewski, P. A., Genthon, C., Aristarain, A., Barrett, P., Becagli, Silvia, Bernardo, R., Bo, S., Xiao, C., Curran, M., Qin, D., Dixon, D., Ferron, F., Fisher, H., Frey, M. M., Frezzotti, Massimo, Fundel, F., Genthon, Christian, Gragnani, Roberto, Hamilton, G., Handley, M., Hong, Sungmin, Isaksson, E., Kang, J., Ren, J., Kamiyama, K., Kanamori, S., Karkas, E., Karlof, L., Kaspari, S., Kreutz, K., Kurbatov, A., Meyerson, E., Ming, Y., Zhang, M., Motoyama, H., Mulvaney, R., Oerter, H., Osterberg, E., Proposito, Marco, Pyne, A., Ruth, U., Simões, J., Smith, B., Sneed, S., Teinilä, K., Traufetter, F., Udisti, Roberto, Virkkula, A., Watanabe, Osamu, Williamson, Ben, Winther, J.-G., Li, Y., Wolff, E., Li, Zhenyu, Zielinski, A., Bertler, N., Mayewski, P. A., Aristarain, A., Barrett, P., Becagli, S., Bernardo, R., Bo, S., Xiao, C., Curran, M., Qin, D., Dixon, D. A., Ferron, F., Fischer, H., Frey, M., Frezzotti, M., Fundel, F., Genthon, C., Gragnani, R., Hamilton, G. S., Handley, M., Hong, S., Isaksson, E., Kang, J., Ren, J., Kamiyama, K., Kanamori, S., Karkas, E., Karlof, L., Kaspari, S., Kreutz, K., Kurbatov, A., Meyerson, E., Ming, Y., Zhang, M., Motoyama, H., Mulvaney, R., Oerter, H., Osterberg, E., Proposito, M., Pyne, A., Ruth, U., Simoes, J., Smith, B., Sneed, S., Teinila, K., Traufetter, F., Udisti, R., Virkkula, A., Watanabe, O., Williamson, B., Winther, J. -G., Li, Y., Wolff, E., Li, Z., Zielinski, A., 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), Department of Chemistry, Università degli Studi di Firenze = University of Florence [Firenze] (UNIFI), Italian National agency for new technologies, Energy and sustainable economic development [Frascati] (ENEA), Alfred-Wegener-Institut, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung (AWI), Korean Ocean Research and Development Institute (KORDI), British Antarctic Survey (BAS), Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI), Research Center for Development of Far Infrared Region, University of Fukui, Research and Development, Futurelab, 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), University of Florence (UNIFI), Laboratoire d'Economie de la Production et de l'Intégration Internationale (LEPII), Université Pierre Mendès France - Grenoble 2 (UPMF)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and Korean Ocean Research and development Institute

Subjects
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Chemistry, Climate change, 010502 geochemistry & geophysics, Snow, 01 natural sciences, Oceanography, 13. Climate action, Data compilation, Physical geography, [SDU.STU.GL]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Glaciology, China, Geology, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Earth-Surface Processes
Abstract

An updated compilation of published and new data of major-ion (Ca, Cl, K, Mg, Na, NO3, SO4) and methylsulfonate (MS) concentrations in snow from 520 Antarctic sites is provided by the national ITASE (International Trans-Antarctic Scientific Expedition) programmes of Australia, Brazil, China, Germany, Italy, Japan, Korea, New Zealand, Norway, the United Kingdom, the United States and the national Antarctic programme of Finland. The comparison shows that snow chemistry concentrations vary by up to four orders of magnitude across Antarctica and exhibit distinct geographical patterns. The Antarctic-wide comparison of glaciochemical records provides a unique opportunity to improve our understanding of the fundamental factors that ultimately control the chemistry of snow or ice samples. This paper aims to initiate data compilation and administration in order to provide a framework for facilitation of Antarctic-wide snow chemistry discussions across all ITASE nations and other contributing groups. The data are made available through the ITASE web page (http://www2.umaine.edu/itase/content/syngroups/snowchem.html) and will be updated with new data as they are provided. In addition, recommendations for future research efforts are summarized.

Published
2005

2. Dust-climate couplings over the past 800,000 years from the EPICA Dome C ice core.

Author

Lambert, F., Delmonte, B., Petit, J. R., Bigler, M., Kaufmann, P. R., Hutterli, M. A., Stocker, T. F., Ruth, U., Steffensen, J. P., and Maggi, V.

Subjects
SOLAR radiation, DUST, MICRONUTRIENTS, CLIMATE change, EOLIAN processes, ATMOSPHERIC transparency, TROPOSPHERE, PLEISTOCENE stratigraphic geology
Abstract

Dust can affect the radiative balance of the atmosphere by absorbing or reflecting incoming solar radiation; it can also be a source of micronutrients, such as iron, to the ocean. It has been suggested that production, transport and deposition of dust is influenced by climatic changes on glacial-interglacial timescales. Here we present a high-resolution record of aeolian dust from the EPICA Dome C ice core in East Antarctica, which provides an undisturbed climate sequence over the past eight climatic cycles. We find that there is a significant correlation between dust flux and temperature records during glacial periods that is absent during interglacial periods. Our data suggest that dust flux is increasingly correlated with Antarctic temperature as the climate becomes colder. We interpret this as progressive coupling of the climates of Antarctic and lower latitudes. Limited changes in glacial-interglacial atmospheric transport time suggest that the sources and lifetime of dust are the main factors controlling the high glacial dust input. We propose that the observed ∼25-fold increase in glacial dust flux over all eight glacial periods can be attributed to a strengthening of South American dust sources, together with a longer lifetime for atmospheric dust particles in the upper troposphere resulting from a reduced hydrological cycle during the ice ages. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2008
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3. Ice thinning, upstream advection, and non-climatic biases for the upper 89% of the EDML ice core from a nested model of the Antarctic ice sheet.

Author

Huybrechts, P., Rybak, O., Pattyn, F., Ruth, U., and Steinhage, D.

Subjects
CLIMATE change, ICE cores, ICE sheets, ALGORITHMS, HEAT flux, CLIMATOLOGY
Abstract

A nested ice flow model was developed for eastern Dronning Maud Land to assist with the dating and interpretation of the EDML deep ice core. The model consists of a high-resolution higher-order ice dynamic flow model that was nested into a comprehensive 3-D thermomechanical model of the whole Antarctic ice sheet. As the drill site is on a flank position the calculations specifically take into account the effects of horizontal advection as deeper ice in the core originated from higher inland. First the regional velocity field and ice sheet geometry is obtained from a forward experiment over the last 8 glacial cycles. The result is subsequently employed in a Lagrangian backtracing algorithm to provide particle paths back to their time and place of deposition. The procedure directly yields the depth-age distribution, surface conditions at particle origin, and a suite of relevant parameters such as initial annual layer thickness. This paper discusses the method and the main results of the experiment, including the ice core chronology, the non-climatic corrections needed to extract the climatic part of the signal, and the thinning function. The focus is on the upper 89% of the ice core (appr. 170 kyears) as the dating below that is increasingly less robust owing to the unknown value of the geothermal heat flux. It is found that the temperature biases resulting from variations of surface elevation are up to half of the magnitude of the climatic changes themselves. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2007
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4. One-to-one coupling of glacial climate variability in Greenland and Antarctica

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George R. Hoffmann, Silvia Becagli, Jean Jouzel, Oleg Rybak, Philippe Huybrechts, M. Kaczmarska, Astrid Lambrecht, Felix Fundel, L. Loulergue, K. Weiler, E. Castellano, Hutterli, Fernando Valero-Delgado, Mika Kohno, Fabrice Lambert, Roberto Udisti, Gunther Lawer, Elisabeth Isaksson, Hubertus Fischer, J. R. Petit, Valter Maggi, J. Beer, Heinrich Miller, Markus Leuenberger, Claude F. Boutron, M.-L. Siggaard-Andersen, Anna Wegner, Torbjörn Karlin, Thomas Blunier, Wolfgang Graf, Ilka Hamann, Patrik R Kaufmann, Margareta Hansson, Andreas Frenzel, J. M. Barnola, H. Oerter, Vania Gaspari, Urs Federer, Hanno Meyer, Sigfus J Johnsen, Robert Mulvaney, Biancamaria Narcisi, Jean-Louis Tison, Jørgen Peder Steffensen, Johannes Oerlemans, Mirko Severi, Eric W. Wolff, Grant M. Raisbeck, Olivier Cattani, U. Ruth, Diedrich Fritzsche, D. Grigoriev, Geneviève C Littot, Paolo Gabrielli, Rita Traversi, Dietmar Wagenbach, Urs Siegenthaler, Regine Röthlisberger, M. R. van den Broeke, D. Dick, Barbara Delmonte, Johannes Freitag, Frank Wilhelms, F. Marino, Jan-Gunnar Winther, Maxime Debret, Renato Spahni, S. Falourd, Jakob Schwander, Barbara Stenni, S. Kipfstuhl, Dieter Lüthi, Jérôme Chappellaz, Dominique Raynaud, Thomas F. Stocker, Dorthe Dahl-Jensen, M. Bigler, Frédéric Parrenin, Carlo Barbante, Rainer Gersonde, Valérie Masson-Delmotte, Amaelle Landais, R. S. W. van de Wal, Jochen Schmitt, Sérgio H. Faria, Institute for the Dynamics of Environmental Processes-CNR, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Ca’ Foscari [Venice, Italy], Niels Bohr Institute [Copenhagen] (NBI), Faculty of Science [Copenhagen], University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (KU)-University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (KU), 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), Department of Chemistry, University of Florence (UNIFI), Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (EAWAG), Climate and Environmental Physics [Bern] (CEP), Physikalisches Institut [Bern], Universität Bern [Bern]-Universität Bern [Bern], Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement [Gif-sur-Yvette] (LSCE), 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), University Milano-Bicocca, Department of Bentho-pelagic processes, Alfred-Wegener-Institut, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung (AWI), Forschungszentrum fur Umwelt und Gesundheit (GSF), Helmholtz-Zentrum München (HZM), University College of London [London] (UCL), Department of Physical Geography and Quaternary Geology, Stockholm University, British Antarctic Survey (BAS), Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), Departement Geografie, Vrije Universiteit [Brussels] (VUB), Norwegian Polar Institute, Italian National agency for new technologies, Energy and sustainable economic development [Frascati] (ENEA), Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research [Utrecht] (IMAU), Utrecht University [Utrecht], Centre de Spectrométrie Nucléaire et de Spectrométrie de Masse (CSNSM), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Department of Geological, Environmental and Marine Sciences [Trieste], Università degli studi di Trieste, Département des Sciences de la Terre, Université Libre de Bruxelles [Bruxelles] (ULB), Institute of Environmental Physics [Heidelberg] (IUP), Universität Heidelberg [Heidelberg], Barbante, C., Barnola, J. M., Becagli, S., Beer, J., Bigler, M., Boutron, C., Blunier, T., Castellano, E., Cattani, O., Chappellaz, J., Dahl Jensen, D., Debret, M., Delmonte, B., Dick, D., Falourd, S., Faria, S., Federer, U., Fischer, H., Freitag, J., Frenzel, A., Fritzsche, D., Fundel, F., Gabrielli, P., Gaspari, V., Gersonde, R., Graf, W., Grigoriev, D., Hamann, I, Hansson, M., Hoffmann, G., Hutterli, M. A., Huybrechts, P., Isaksson, E., Johnsen, S., Jouzel, J., Kaczmarska, M., Karlin, T., Kaufmann, P., Kipfstuhl, S., Kohno, M., Lambert, F., Lambrecht, A., Landais, A., Lawer, G., Leuenberger, M., Littot, G., Loulergue, L., Lüthi, D., Maggi, V., Marino, F., Masson Delmotte, V., Meyer, H., Miller, H., Mulvaney, R., Narcisi, B., Oerlemans, J., Oerter, H., Parrenin, F., Petit, J. R., Raisbeck, G., Raynaud, D., Röthlisberger, R., Ruth, U., Rybak, O., Severi, M., Schmitt, J., Schwander, J., Siegenthaler, U., Siggaard Andersen, M. L., Spahni, R., Steffensen, J. P., Stenni, Barbara, Stocker, T. F., Tison, J. L., Traversi, R., Udisti, R., Valero Delgado, F., van den Broeke, M. R., van de Wal R. S., W, Wagenbach, D., Wegner, A., Weiler, K., Wilhelms, F., Winther, J. G., Wolff, E., Barbante, C, Barnola, J, Becagli, S, Beer, J, Bigler, M, Boutron, C, Blunier, T, Castellano, E, Cattani, O, Chappellaz, J, Dahl Jensen, D, Debret, M, Delmonte, B, Dick, D, Falourd, S, Faria, S, Federer, U, Fischer, H, Freitag, J, Frenzel, A, Fritzsche, D, Fundel, F, Gabrielli, P, Gaspari, V, Gersonde, R, Graf, W, Grigoriev, D, Hansson, M, Hoffmann, G, Hutterli, M, Huybrechts, P, Isaksson, E, Johnsen, S, Jouzel, J, Kaczmarska, M, Karlin, T, Kaufmann, P, Kipfstuhl, S, Kohno, M, Lambert, F, Lambrecht, A, Landais, A, Lawer, G, Leuenberger, M, Littot, G, Loulergue, L, Luthi, D, Maggi, V, Marino, F, Masson Delmotte, V, Meyer, H, Miller, H, Mulvaney, R, Narcisi, B, Oerlemans, J, Oerter, H, Parrenin, F, Petit, J, Raisbeck, G, Raynaud, D, Rothlisberger, R, Ruth, U, Rybak, O, Severi, M, Schmitt, J, Schwander, J, Siegenthaler, U, Siggaard Andersen, M, Spahni, R, Steffensen, J, Stenni, B, Stocker, T, Tison, J, Traversi, R, Udisti, R, Valero Delgado, F, van den Broeke, M, van de Wal, R, Wagenbach, D, Wegner, A, Weiler, K, Wilhelms, F, Winther, J, Wolff, E, 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), Università degli Studi di Firenze = University of Florence [Firenze] (UNIFI), Swiss Federal Insitute of Aquatic Science and Technology [Dübendorf] (EAWAG), 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), Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca [Milano] (UNIMIB), Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11), Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (UCPH)-University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (UCPH), 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 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)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Università degli Studi di Firenze = University of Florence (UniFI), Universität Bern [Bern] (UNIBE)-Universität Bern [Bern] (UNIBE), 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), Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca = University of Milano-Bicocca (UNIMIB), Helmholtz Zentrum München = German Research Center for Environmental Health, Università degli studi di Trieste = University of Trieste, Universität Heidelberg [Heidelberg] = Heidelberg University, Niels Bohr Institute ( NBI ), Laboratoire de glaciologie et géophysique de l'environnement ( LGGE ), Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers de Grenoble ( OSUG ), 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 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 ), University of Florence, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology ( EAWAG ), Climate and Environmental Physics [Bern], University of Bern, 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 ) -Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ), Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research ( AWI ), Forschungszentrum fur Umwelt und Gesundheit ( GSF ), Helmholtz-Zentrum München ( HZM ), University College of London [London] ( UCL ), British Antarctic Survey ( BAS ), Natural Environment Research Council ( NERC ), Vrije Universiteit [Brussel] ( VUB ), Italian National agency for new technologies, Energy and sustainable economic development [Frascati] ( ENEA ), Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research Utrecht ( IMAU ), Centre de Spectrométrie Nucléaire et de Spectrométrie de Masse ( CSNSM ), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 ( UP11 ) -Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS ( IN2P3 ) -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ), Department of Geological Environmental and Marine Sciences [Trieste], University of Trieste, Université Libre de Bruxelles [Bruxelles] ( ULB ), and Institute of Environmental Physics [Heidelberg] ( IUP )

Subjects
Glacial climate, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Meridional overturning circulation, Greenland, ice cores, Atlantic meridional overturning circulation, ice, 010502 geochemistry & geophysics, 01 natural sciences, Arctic, Ice core, Northern and Southern hemispheres, methane, Antarctica, EPICA, Dansgaard–Oeschger events, Dansgaard–Oeschger event, Ice core studies, Multidisciplinary, geography.geographical_feature_category, European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica, article, Future sea level, Water waves, Oceanography, climate change, priority journal, Climate state, [ SDU.STU.GL ] Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Glaciology, temperature effect, Ice cap climate, glacial environment, oceanic circulation, [SDU.STU.GL]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Glaciology, isotope, climate, Northern and Southern hemisphere, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, geography, Temperature measurement, Glacial geology, climate variation, Ice-sheet model, Oxygen, 13. Climate action, ice core record, Abrupt climate change, Environmental science, Ice sheet, ice core
Abstract

International audience; Precise knowledge of the phase relationship between climate changes in the two hemispheres is a key for understanding the Earth's climate dynamics. For the last glacial period, ice core studies1, 2 have revealed strong coupling of the largest millennial-scale warm events in Antarctica with the longest Dansgaard–Oeschger events in Greenland3, 4, 5 through the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation6, 7, 8. It has been unclear, however, whether the shorter Dansgaard–Oeschger events have counterparts in the shorter and less prominent Antarctic temperature variations, and whether these events are linked by the same mechanism. Here we present a glacial climate record derived from an ice core from Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica, which represents South Atlantic climate at a resolution comparable with the Greenland ice core records. After methane synchronization with an ice core from North Greenland9, the oxygen isotope record from the Dronning Maud Land ice core shows a one-to-one coupling between all Antarctic warm events and Greenland Dansgaard–Oeschger events by the bipolar seesaw6. The amplitude of the Antarctic warm events is found to be linearly dependent on the duration of the concurrent stadial in the North, suggesting that they all result from a similar reduction in the meridional overturning circulation.

Published
2006

5. Eight glacial cycles from an Antarctic ice core

Author

EPICA Community Members, Augustin, L., Barbante, C., Barnes, P. R. F., Barnola, J. M., Bigler, M., Castellano, E., Cattani, O., Chappellaz, J., Dahl-Jensen, D., Delmonte, B., Dreyfus, G., Durand, G., Falourd, S., Fischer, Hubertus, Flückiger, J., Hansson, M. E., Huybrechts, Philippe, Jugie, G., Johnsen, S. J., Jouzel, J., Kaufmann, P., Kipfstuhl, J., Lambert, F., Lipenkov, V. Y., Littot, G. C., Longinelli, A., Lorrain, R., Maggi, V., Masson-Delmotte, V., Miller, Heinrich, Mulvaney, R., Oerlemans, J., Oerter, Hans, Orombelli, G., Parrenin, F., Peel, D. A., Petit, J. R., Raynaud, D., Ritz, C., Ruth, Urs, Schwander, J., Siegenthaler, U., Souchez, R., Stauffer, B., Steffensen, J. P., Stenni, B., Stocker, T. F., Tabacco, I. E., Udisti, R., Wal, R. S. W., Broeke, M., Weiss, J., Wilhelms, Frank, Winther, Jan-Gunnar, Wolff, E. W., Zucchelli, M., Augustin, L, Barbante, C, Barnes, P, Barnola, J, Bigler, M, Castellano, E, Cattani, O, Chappellaz, J, Dahljensen, D, Delmonte, B, Dreyfus, G, Durand, G, Falourd, S, Fischer, H, Fluckiger, J, Hansson, M, Huybrechts, P, Jugie, R, Johnsen, S, Jouzel, J, Kaufmann, P, Kipfstuhl, J, Lambert, F, Lipenkov, V, Littot, G, Longinelli, A, Lorrain, R, Maggi, V, Masson Delmotte, V, Miller, H, Mulvaney, R, Oerlemans, J, Oerter, H, Orombelli, G, Parrenin, F, Peel, D, Petit, J, Raynaud, D, Ritz, C, Ruth, U, Schwander, J, Siegenthaler, U, Souchez, R, Stauffer, B, Steffensen, J, Stenni, B, Stocker, T, Tabacco, I, Udisti, R, van de Wal, R, van den Broeke, M, Weiss, J, Wilhelms, F, Winther, J, Wolff, E, Zucchelli, M, 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), 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), Augustin, L., Barbante, C., Barnes, P. R. F., Barnola, J. M., Bigler, M., Castellano, E., Cattani, O., Chappellaz, J., Dahl Jensen, D., Delmonte, B., Dreyfus, G., Durand, G., Falourd, S., Fischer, H., Flückiger, J., Hansson, M. E., Huybrechts, P., Jugie, G., Johnsen, S. J., Jouzel, J., Kaufmann, P., Kipfstuhl, J., Lambert, F., Lipenkov, V. Y., Littot, G. C., Longinelli, A., Lorrain, R., Maggi, V., Masson Delmotte, V., Miller, H., Mulvaney, R., Oerlemans, J., Oerter, H., Orombelli, G., Parrenin, F., Peel, D. A., Petit, J. R., Raynaud, D., Ritz, C., Ruth, U., Schwander, J., Siegenthaler, U., Souchez, R., Stauffer, B., Steffensen, J. P., Stenni, Barbara, Stocker, T. F., Tabacco, I. E., Udisti, R., van de Wal, R. S. W., van den Broeke, M., Weiss, J., Wilhelms, F., Winther, J. G., Wolff, E. W., and Zucchelli, M.

Subjects
termination, marine environment, deep ice cores, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, ice, glacial cycle, 010502 geochemistry & geophysics, 01 natural sciences, glacial-interglacial cycles, Ice core, deuterium profile, Dome Concordia, Ice age, Flandrian interglacial, Glacial period, Marine applications, EPICA Dome C, Antarctica, paleoclimate, terminations, Climatology, [SDU.OCEAN]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Ocean, Atmosphere, interglacial period, Multidisciplinary, article, Oceanography, priority journal, greenhouse gas, Interglacial, environmental temperature, Climate state, Geology, glacier, deep ice core, Climate change, Greenhouse effect, Quaternary, Climate feedbacks, [SDU.ENVI]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Continental interfaces, environment, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, glacial-interglacial cycle, paleoclimatology, East Antarctica, Greenhouse and icehouse Earth, Antarctica Vostok ice core, 13. Climate action, Settore GEO/08 - Geochimica e Vulcanologia, ice core record, Physical geography, ice core, Glacial cycles, global climate
Abstract

International audience; The Antarctic Vostok ice core provided compelling evidence of the nature of climate, and of climate feedbacks, over the past 420,000 years. Marine records suggest that the amplitude of climate variability was smaller before that time, but such records are often poorly resolved. Moreover, it is not possible to infer the abundance of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere from marine records. Here we report the recovery of a deep ice core from Dome C, Antarctica, that provides a climate record for the past 740,000 years. For the four most recent glacial cycles, the data agree well with the record from Vostok. The earlier period, between 740,000 and 430,000 years ago, was characterized by less pronounced warmth in interglacial periods in Antarctica, but a higher proportion of each cycle was spent in the warm mode. The transition from glacial to interglacial conditions about 430,000 years ago (Termination V) resembles the transition into the present interglacial period in terms of the magnitude of change in temperatures and greenhouse gases, but there are significant differences in the patterns of change. The interglacial stage following Termination V was exceptionally long--28,000 years compared to, for example, the 12,000 years recorded so far in the present interglacial period. Given the similarities between this earlier warm period and today, our results may imply that without human intervention, a climate similar to the present one would extend well into the future.

Published
2004

6. Changes in environment over the last 800,000 years from chemical analysis of the EPICA Dome C ice core

Author

Wolff, E.W., Barbante, C., Becagli, S., Bigler, M., Boutron, C.F., Castellano, E., de Angelis, M., Federer, U., Fischer, H., Fundel, F., Hansson, M., Hutterli, M., Jonsell, U., Karlin, T., Kaufmann, P., Lambert, F., Littot, G.C., Mulvaney, R., Röthlisberger, R., and Ruth, U.

Subjects
*ANALYTICAL chemistry, *ICE cores, *ATMOSPHERIC circulation, *CLIMATE change, *CONSTRAINTS (Physics)
Abstract

Abstract: The EPICA ice core from Dome C extends 3259m in depth, and encompasses 800ka of datable and sequential ice. Numerous chemical species have been measured along the length of the cores. Here we concentrate on interpreting the main low-resolution patterns of major ions. We extend the published record for non-sea-salt calcium, sea-salt sodium and non-sea-salt sulfate flux to 800ka. The non-sea-salt calcium record confirms that terrestrial dust originating from South America closely mirrored Antarctic climate, both at orbital and millennial timescales. A major cause of the main trends is most likely climate in southern South America, which could be sensitive to subtle changes in atmospheric circulation. Sea-salt sodium also follows temperature, but with a threshold at low temperature. We re-examine the use of sodium as a sea ice proxy, concluding that it is probably reflecting extent, with high salt concentrations reflecting larger ice extents. With this interpretation, the sodium flux record indicates low ice extent operating as an amplifier in warm interglacials. Non-sea-salt sulfate flux is almost constant along the core, confirming the lack of change in marine productivity (for sulfur-producing organisms) in the areas of the Southern Ocean contributing to the flux at Dome C. For the first time we also present long records of reversible species such as nitrate and chloride, and show that the pattern of post-depositional losses described for shallower ice is maintained in older ice. It appears possible to use these concentrations to constrain snow accumulation rates in interglacial ice at this site, and the results suggest a possible correction to accumulation rates in one early interglacial. Taken together the chemistry records offer a number of constraints on the way the Earth system combined to give the major climate fluctuations of the late Quaternary period. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Published
2010
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7. Coherent composition of glacial dust on opposite sides of the East Antarctic Plateau inferred from the deep EPICA ice cores

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Silvia Nava, U. Ruth, Anna Wegner, Franco Lucarelli, Roberto Udisti, Emiliano Castellano, F. Marino, Massimo Chiari, Barbara Delmonte, Valter Maggi, Marino, F, Castellano, E, Nava, S, Chiari, M, Ruth, U, Wegner, A, Lucarelli, F, Udisti, R, Delmonte, B, and Maggi, V

Subjects
geography, Provenance, Plateau, geography.geographical_feature_category, GEO/04 - GEOGRAFIA FISICA E GEOMORFOLOGIA, Climate change, PIXE, dust, ice cores, antarctica, East antarctica, Paleontology, Geophysics, Ice core, General Circulation Model, General Earth and Planetary Sciences, Physical geography, Glacial period, Geology, Antarctic plateau
Abstract

The dust provenance identification through isotopic and geochemical tracers focused mostly on ice cores drilled in the Pacific-Indian sector of Antarctica, where a common provenance of dust from Southern South America during glacial ages was demonstrated. Conversely, in other areas of the East Antarctic Plateau as Dronning Maud Land provenance was deduced indirectly from back trajectory analyses and soluble chemistry records. In this work, we present the first comparison of major elemental composition of dust archived in two ice cores from opposite sides of Antarctica, in the framework of the EPICA Project. Mineral particles extracted from the EDC and EDML cores date back to glacial MIS 2, 4 and 6, over the last 200 kyr. Results reveal a coherent geochemical dust composition at both locations, providing experimental evidence of a common provenance over the wide area of East Antarctica during glacials, and key analytical constrains for atmospheric general circulation models. Copyright 2009 by the American Geophysical Union.

Published
2009

8. Dust-climate couplings over the past 800,000 years from the EPICA Dome C ice core

Author

Fabrice Lambert, Valter Maggi, Jørgen Peder Steffensen, J. R. Petit, U. Ruth, Patrik R Kaufmann, Barbara Delmonte, Manuel A. Hutterli, Matthias Bigler, Thomas F. Stocker, Climate and Environmental Physics [Bern] (CEP), Physikalisches Institut [Bern], Universität Bern [Bern]-Universität Bern [Bern], Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research (OCCR), University of Bern, Department of Environmental Sciences, University Milano-Bicocca, 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 for Ice and Climate [Copenhagen], Niels Bohr Institute [Copenhagen] (NBI), Faculty of Science [Copenhagen], University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (KU)-University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (KU)-Faculty of Science [Copenhagen], University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (KU)-University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (KU), British Antarctic Survey (BAS), Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), Abteilung Klinische Sozialmedizin, Berufs- und Umweltdermatologie, Universität Heidelberg [Heidelberg], European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica (EPICA), Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca [Milano] (UNIMIB), 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), Lambert, F, Delmonte, B, Petit, J, Bigler, M, Kaufmann, P, Hutterli, M, Stocker, T, Ruth, U, Steffensen, J, and Maggi, V

Subjects
Earth's energy budget, Multidisciplinary, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, GEO/04 - GEOGRAFIA FISICA E GEOMORFOLOGIA, Climate change, 15. Life on land, 010502 geochemistry & geophysics, Atmospheric sciences, 01 natural sciences, climate, dust, ice cores, antarctica, Oceanography, Ice core, 13. Climate action, Paleoclimatology, Interglacial, Ice age, Aeolian processes, Environmental science, Glacial period, [SDU.STU.GL]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Glaciology, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Abstract

Dust can affect the radiative balance of the atmosphere by absorbing or reflecting incoming solar radiation; it can also be a source of micronutrients, such as iron, to the ocean. It has been suggested that production, transport and deposition of dust is influenced by climatic changes on glacial-interglacial timescales. Here we present a high-resolution record of aeolian dust from the EPICA Dome C ice core in East Antarctica, which provides an undisturbed climate sequence over the past eight climatic cycles. We find that there is a significant correlation between dust flux and temperature records during glacial periods that is absent during interglacial periods. Our data suggest that dust flux is increasingly correlated with Antarctic temperature as the climate becomes colder. We interpret this as progressive coupling of the climates of Antarctic and lower latitudes. Limited changes in glacial-interglacial atmospheric transport time suggest that the sources and lifetime of dust are the main factors controlling the high glacial dust input. We propose that the observed ∼25-fold increase in glacial dust flux over all eight glacial periods can be attributed to a strengthening of South American dust sources, together with a longer lifetime for atmospheric dust particles in the upper troposphere resulting from a reduced hydrological cycle during the ice ages. ©2008 Nature Publishing Group.

Published
2008

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