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101. Regional imprints of millennial variability during the MIS 3 period around Antarctica

Author: Didier Swingedouw, Matthias Baumgartner, Valérie Masson-Delmotte, Bénédicte Lemieux-Dudon, Amaelle Landais, Adrian Schilt, Mattia Bonazza, Emilie Capron, Barbara Stenni, Mirko Severi, Frédéric Parrenin, Massimo Frezzotti, Roberto Udisti, Masa Kageyama, D. Buiron, Jérôme Chappellaz, Enricomaria Selmo, 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), Dipartimento di Scienze Geologiche [Trieste], Università degli studi di Trieste, 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 Bern, Italian National agency for new technologies, Energy and sustainable economic development [Frascati] (ENEA), Modélisation du climat (CLIM), Inria Grenoble - Rhône-Alpes, Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria), Climate and Environmental Physics [Bern] (CEP), Physikalisches Institut [Bern], Universität Bern [Bern]-Universität Bern [Bern], University of Parma = Università degli studi di Parma [Parme, Italie], Università degli Studi di Firenze = University of Florence [Firenze] (UNIFI), Buiron, D., Stenni, Barbara, J., Chappellaz, A., Landai, M., Baumgartner, Bonazza, Mattia, E., Capron, M., Frezzotti, M., Kageyama, B., Lemieux Dudon, V., Masson Delmotte, F., Parrenin, A., Schilt, E., Selmo, M., Severi, D., Swingedouw, R., Udisti, Stenni, B., Chappellaz, J., Landais, A., Baumgartner, M., Bonazza, M., Capron, E., Frezzotti, M., Kageyama, M., Lemieux-Dudon, B., Masson-Delmotte, V., Parrenin, F., Schilt, A., Selmo, E., Severi, M., Swingedouw, D., Udisti, R., 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 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 Trieste = University of Trieste, 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), Universität Bern [Bern] (UNIBE)-Universität Bern [Bern] (UNIBE), Università degli studi di Parma = University of Parma (UNIPR), and Università degli Studi di Firenze = University of Florence (UniFI)
Subjects: Archeology, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Paleoclimate, Global coupled model simulation, Greenland Ice Sheet, atmosphere-ocean coupling, Greenland, ice cores, 010502 geochemistry & geophysics, Oceanography, 01 natural sciences, Arctic, Ice core, Millennial-scale variability, Ice age, stable isotope, Cryosphere, Climate change, Glacial period, Dansgaard-Oeschger cycle, Indian Sector, Global coupled model, sodium, deuterium, Talos Dome, [SDU.OCEAN]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Ocean, Atmosphere, Global and Planetary Change, geography.geographical_feature_category, teleconnection, Last Glacial, regional climate, Geology, Climatology, warming, millennial-scale variability, glacial period, global coupled model simulations, overturn, Paleoclimatology, freshwater input, paleoclimate, Paleoclimates, Southern Ocean, [SDU.ENVI]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Continental interfaces, environment, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, geography, Ice, marine isotope stage, East Antarctica, Arctic ice pack, Glacial geology, climate variation, Ice-sheet model, 13. Climate action, paleoceanography, coastal zone, meridional circulation, Antarctica, Ice sheet, ice core
Abstract: International audience; The climate of the last glacial Marine Isotopic Stage 3 (MIS3) period is characterized by strong millennial-scale variability with a succession of Dansgaard–Oeschger events first identified in Greenland ice cores and associated with variations of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC). These abrupt events have a smooth and lagged counterpart in water stable isotopes from Antarctic ice cores. In this study we aim at depicting and understanding the circum-Antarctic expression of this millennial-scale variability. To illustrate the mechanisms potentially at work in the response of the southern high latitudes to an abrupt decrease of the AMOC, we first present results from experiments performed with the IPSL-CM4 atmosphere-ocean coupled model under glacial boundary conditions. When the AMOC is perturbed by imposing an additional freshwater flux in the North Atlantic, our model produces the classical bipolar seesaw mechanism generally invoked to explain the warming of the Southern Ocean/Antarctic region. However, this mechanism can be locally offset by faster atmospheric teleconnections originating from the tropics, even though the precise location of this fast response is not coherent among different climate models. Our model results are confronted with a synthesis of Antarctic records of ice core stable isotope and sea-salt sodium, including new data obtained on the TALDICE ice core. The IPSL-CM4 produces a dipole-like pattern around Antarctica, with warming in the Atlantic/Indian sectors contrasting with an unexpected cooling in the East-Pacific sector. The latter signal is not detected in our data synthesis. Both ice core data and simulations are consistent in depicting a more rapid response of the Atlantic sector compared to the Indian sector. This feature can be explained by the gradual impact of ocean transport on which faster atmospheric teleconnections are superimposed. Detailed investigations of the sequence of events between different proxies are conducted in three ice cores. Earlier shifts in deuterium excess and significant changes in sea-salt sodium fluxes in the most coastal sites (TALDICE and EDML) compared to EDC suggest reorganizations in local moisture sources, possibly linked with sea-ice cover. This study demonstrates the added value of circum-Antarctic ice core records to characterize the patterns and mechanisms of glacial climate variability.
Published: 2012
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102. Ranges of moisture-source temperatures estimated from Antarctic ice core stable isotope records over the glacial-interglacial cycles

Author: Amaelle Landais, Barbara Stenni, Jean Jouzel, Ryu Uemura, Valerie Masson-Delmotte, and Hideaki Motoyama
Subjects: Oceanography, Ice core, Moisture, Stable isotope ratio, Interglacial, Glacial period, Geology
Abstract: A single isotope ratio (δD or δ18O) of water is widely used as an air-temperature proxy in Antarctic ice cores. These isotope ratios, however, do not solely depend on air-temperature but also on the extent of distillation of heavy isotopes out of atmospheric water vapor from an oceanic moisture source to a precipitation site. The temperature changes at the oceanic moisture source (ΔTsource) and at the precipitation site (ΔTsite) can be retrieved by using deuterium-excess (d) data. A new d record from Dome Fuji, Antarctica is produced spanning the past 360 000 yr and compared with records from Vostok and EPICA Dome C ice cores. To retrieve ΔTsource and ΔTsite information, different linear regression equations have been proposed using theoretical isotope distillation models. A major source of uncertainty lies in the coefficient of regression, βsite which is related to the sensitivity of d to ΔTsite. We show that different ranges of temperature and selections of isotopic model outputs may increase the value of βsite by a factor of two. To explore the impacts of this coefficient on the reconstructed temperatures, we apply for the first time the exact same methodology to the isotope records from the three Antarctica ice cores. We show that uncertainties in the βsite coefficient strongly affect (i) the glacial-interglacial magnitude of ΔTsource; (ii) the imprint of obliquity in ΔTsource and in the site-source temperature gradient. By contrast, we highlight the robustness of ΔTsite reconstruction using water isotopes records.
Published: 2012
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103. Ranges of moisture-source temperature estimated from Antarctic ice cores stable isotope records over glacial–interglacial cycles

Author: Jean Jouzel, Barbara Stenni, Hideaki Motoyama, Ryu Uemura, Valérie Masson-Delmotte, Amaelle Landais, 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), National Institute of Polar Research [Tokyo] (NiPR), University of Trieste, Uemura, R., Masson Delmotte, V., Jouzel, J., Landais, A., Motoyama, H., Stenni, Barbara, 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), and Università degli studi di Trieste = University of Trieste
Subjects: Dome F, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, δ18O, lcsh:Environmental protection, Stratigraphy, supersaturation function, ice cores, site temperature, 010502 geochemistry & geophysics, Atmospheric sciences, 01 natural sciences, Proxy (climate), Deuterium excess, East Antarctica, source temperature, Vostok, EPICA Dome C, Physics::Geophysics, lcsh:Environmental pollution, Ice core, lcsh:TD169-171.8, Glacial period, [SDU.ENVI]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Continental interfaces, environment, lcsh:Environmental sciences, Physics::Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, lcsh:GE1-350, [SDU.OCEAN]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Ocean, Atmosphere, Global and Planetary Change, Isotope, Moisture, Stable isotope ratio, Paleontology, Deuterium exce, 13. Climate action, Climatology, lcsh:TD172-193.5, Interglacial, ice core, Geology
Abstract: A single isotope ratio (δD or δ18O) of water is widely used as an air-temperature proxy in Antarctic ice core records. These isotope ratios, however, do not solely depend on air-temperature but also on the extent of distillation of heavy isotopes out of atmospheric water vapor from an oceanic moisture source to a precipitation site. The temperature changes at the oceanic moisture source (Δ Tsource) and at the precipitation site (Δ Tsite) can be retrieved by using deuterium-excess (d) data. A new d record from Dome Fuji, Antarctica spanning the past 360 000 yr is presented and compared with records from Vostok and EPICA Dome C ice cores. In previous studies, to retrieve Δ Tsource and Δ Tsite information, different linear regression equations were proposed using theoretical isotope distillation models. A major source of uncertainty lies in the coefficient of regression, βsite which is related to the sensitivity of d to Δ Tsite. We show that different ranges of temperature and selections of isotopic model outputs may increase the value of βsite by more than a factor of two. To explore the impacts of this coefficient on reconstructed temperatures, we apply for the first time the exact same methodology to the isotope records from the three Antarctica ice cores. We show that uncertainties in the βsite coefficient strongly affect (i) the glacial–interglacial magnitude of Δ Tsource; (ii) the imprint of obliquity in Δ Tsource and in the site-source temperature gradient. By contrast, we highlight the robustness of Δ Tsite reconstruction using water isotopes records.
Published: 2012
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104. Interpreting last glacial to Holocene dust changes at Talos Dome (East Antarctica): implications for atmospheric variations from regional to hemispheric scales

Author: Valter Maggi, C. Mazzola, Massimo Frezzotti, Carlo Baroni, Barbara Stenni, Barbara Delmonte, J. R. Petit, Samuel Albani, Albani, S., Delmonte, B., Maggi, V., Baroni, C., Petit, J. R., Stenni, Barbara, Mazzola, C., Frezzotti, M., Graduate School in Polar Sciences, Department of Environmental Sciences, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca [Milano] (UNIMIB), Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, University of Pisa - Università di Pisa, 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), Dipartimento di Geoscienze, Università degli studi di Trieste, Italian National agency for new technologies, Energy and sustainable economic development [Frascati] (ENEA), TALDICE publication no. 18 et HOLO-CLIP Project, University Milano-Bicocca, 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), Petit, J. -R., Stenni, B., Albani, S, Delmonte, B, Maggi, V, Baroni, C, Petit, J, Stenni, B, Mazzola, C, and Frezzotti, M
Subjects: 010506 paleontology, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Atmospheric transport, Stratigraphy, lcsh:Environmental protection, GEO/04 - GEOGRAFIA FISICA E GEOMORFOLOGIA, Antarctic ice sheet, [SDU.STU]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences, local sources, Mineral dust, Paleoclimate, Antarctica, Ice Cores, 01 natural sciences, Dust flux, Ice core, lcsh:Environmental pollution, Ross Sea, Deglaciation, lcsh:TD169-171.8, Glacial period, remote sources, remote source, Glacial-interglacial cycle, Southern Hemisphere, dust, Ice cores, Dome C, Talos Dome, Last Glacial Maximum, Antarctica, Holocene, lcsh:Environmental sciences, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, lcsh:GE1-350, grain size, Global and Planetary Change, Paleontology, East Antarctica, 15. Life on land, ice core, last deglaciation, isotopic profile, Oceanography, 13. Climate action, lcsh:TD172-193.5, Geology
Abstract: Central East Antarctic ice cores preserve stratigraphic records of mineral dust originating from remote sources in the Southern Hemisphere, and represent useful indicators of climatic variations on glacial-interglacial time scales. The peripheries of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet, where ice-free areas with the potential to emit dust exist, have been less explored from this point of view. Here, we present a new profile of dust deposition flux and grain size distributions from an ice core drilled at Talos Dome (TALDICE, Northern Victoria Land, East Antarctica), where there is a significant input of dust from proximal Antarctic ice-free areas. We analyze dust and stable water isotopes variations from the Last Glacial Maximum to the Late Holocene, and compare them to the EPICA Dome C profiles from central East Antarctica. The smaller glacial-interglacial variations at Talos Dome compared to Dome C and a distinctive decreasing trend during the Holocene characterize the TALDICE dust profile. By deciphering the composite dust signal from both remote and local sources, we show the potential of this combined proxy of source activity and atmospheric transport to give information on both regional and larger spatial scales. In particular, we show how a regional signal, which we relate to the deglaciation history of the Ross Sea embayment, can be superimposed to the broader scale glacial-interglacial variability that characterizes other Antarctic sites.
Published: 2012
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105. Geochemical features and effects on deep-seated fluids during the May-June 2012 southern Po Valley seismic sequence

Author: Giovanni Martinelli, Francesca Slejko, Mauro Martelli, Andrea Luca Rizzo, Francesco Italiano, Barbara Stenni, Riccardo Petrini, Anna Riggio, Marcello Liotta, Italiano, F, Liotta, M, Martelli, M, Martinelli, G, Petrini, R, Riggio, A, Rizzo, A, Slejko, F, Stenni, B, Italiano, F., Liotta, M., Martelli, M., Martinelli, G., Petrini, Riccardo, Riggio, A., Rizzo, A. L., Slejko, FRANCESCA FEDERICA, and Stenni, B.
Subjects: fault, Provenance, Borehole, Aquifer, Fluid circulation, earthquake event, lcsh:QC851-999, temporal changes, Gas phase, Sequence (geology), Table (landform), Petrology, fluid, geochemistry, fluids, faults, geography, Fluids, geography.geographical_feature_category, Faults, lcsh:QC801-809, Temporal changes, lcsh:Geophysics. Cosmic physics, Geophysics, Geochemistry, lcsh:Meteorology. Climatology, seismicity, Seismology, Geology
Abstract: A periodic sampling of the groundwaters and dissolved and free gases in selected deep wells located in the area affected by the May-June 2012 southern Po Valley seismic sequence has provided insight into seismogenic-induced changes of the local aquifer systems. The results obtained show progressive changes in the fluid geochemistry, allowing it to be established that deep-seated fluids were mobilized during the seismic sequence and reached surface layers along faults and fractures, which generated significant geochemical anomalies. The May-June 2012 seismic swarm (mainshock on May 29, 2012, M 5.8; 7 shocks M >5, about 200 events 3 > M > 5) induced several modifications in the circulating fluids. This study reports the preliminary results obtained for the geochemical features of the waters and gases collected over the epicentral area from boreholes drilled at different depths, thus intercepting water and gases with different origins and circulation. The aim of the investigations was to improve our knowledge of the fluids circulating over the seismic area (e.g. origin, provenance, interactions, mixing of different components, temporal changes). This was achieved by collecting samples from both shallow and deep-drilled boreholes, and then, after the selection of the relevant sites, we looked for temporal changes with mid-to-long-term monitoring activity following a constant sampling rate. This allowed us to gain better insight into the relationships between the fluid circulation and the faulting activity. The sampling sites are listed in Table 1, along with the analytical results of the gas phase. […]
Published: 2012

106. A comparison of the present and last interglacial periods in six Antarctic ice cores

Author: Ryu Uemura, Catherine Ritz, Elisabeth Schlosser, Amaelle Landais, David Pollard, Jean Jouzel, Gerhard Krinner, Barbara Stenni, Valérie Masson-Delmotte, Hideaki Motoyama, Hans Oerter, K. Pol, Alexey A. Ekaykin, Harald Sodemann, Louise C. Sime, Massimo Frezzotti, Françoise Vimeux, Hubert Gallée, D. Buiron, 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), 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), CLIPS, 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 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)-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 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), Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (AARI), Russian Federal Service for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring (Roshydromet), Italian National agency for new technologies, Energy and sustainable economic development [Frascati] (ENEA), Research Organization of Information and Systems, National Institute of Polar Research [Tokyo] (NiPR), Alfred-Wegener-Institut, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung (AWI), Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, Pennsylvania State University (Penn State), Penn State System-Penn State System, EDGe, Institute of Meteorology and Geophysics [Innsbruck], Leopold Franzens Universität Innsbruck - University of Innsbruck, British Antarctic Survey (BAS), Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), Norwegian Institute for Air Research (NILU), Dipartimento di Scienze Geologiche [Trieste], Università degli studi di Trieste = University of Trieste, Department of Chemistry, Biology and Marine Science, University of the Ryukyus [Okinawa], Hydrosciences Montpellier (HSM), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Montpellier 2 - Sciences et Techniques (UM2)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), WaterSIP, HOLOCLIP, PolarCLIMATE programme, European Project: 39423,FP6-SUSTDEV,EPICA-MIS, 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), Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - 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Sciences et Techniques (UM2)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Masson-Delmotte, V., Buiron, D., Ekaykin, A., Frezzotti, M., Gallee, H., Jouzel, J., Krinner, G., Landais, A., Motoyama, H., Oerter, H., Pol, K., Pollard, D., Ritz, C., Schlosser, E., Sime, L. C., Sodemann, H., Stenni, B., Uemura, R., Vimeux, F., 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)-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), 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)-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), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Montpellier 2 - Sciences et Techniques (UM2)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Masson Delmotte, V., Gallée, H., and Stenni, Barbara
Subjects: 010506 paleontology, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Glaciology, Stratigraphy, Ice stream, lcsh:Environmental protection, Ice core, Antarctic sea ice, Eemian, 010502 geochemistry & geophysics, 01 natural sciences, precipitation intermittency, Meteorology and Climatology, lcsh:Environmental pollution, Sea ice, Cryosphere, Ice cores, East Antarctica, isotopic records, Holocene, moisture sources, elevation changes, lcsh:TD169-171.8, [SDU.STU.GM]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Geomorphology, lcsh:Environmental sciences, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, lcsh:GE1-350, Global and Planetary Change, geography, geography.geographical_feature_category, isotopic record, European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica, Paleontology, 15. Life on land, Ice-sheet model, Chemistry, 13. Climate action, Climatology, lcsh:TD172-193.5, moisture source, Ice sheet, Geology
Abstract: We compare the present and last interglacial periods as recorded in Antarctic water stable isotope records now available at various temporal resolutions from six East Antarctic ice cores: Vostok, Taylor Dome, EPICA Dome C (EDC), EPICA Dronning Maud Land (EDML), Dome Fuji and the recent TALDICE ice core from Talos Dome. We first review the different modern site characteristics in terms of ice flow, meteorological conditions, precipitation intermittency and moisture origin, as depicted by meteorological data, atmospheric reanalyses and Lagrangian moisture source diagnostics. These different factors can indeed alter the relationships between temperature and water stable isotopes. Using five records with sufficient resolution on the EDC3 age scale, common features are quantified through principal component analyses. Consistent with instrumental records and atmospheric model results, the ice core data depict rather coherent and homogenous patterns in East Antarctica during the last two interglacials. Across the East Antarctic plateau, regional differences, with respect to the common East Antarctic signal, appear to have similar patterns during the current and last interglacials. We identify two abrupt shifts in isotopic records during glacial inception at TALDICE and EDML, likely caused by regional sea ice expansion. These regional differences are discussed in terms of moisture origin and in terms of past changes in local elevation histories which are compared to ice sheet model results. Our results suggest that, for coastal sites, elevation changes may contribute significantly to inter-site differences. These elevation changes may be underestimated by current ice sheet models.
Published: 2011
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107. Links between MIS 11 millennial to sub-millennial climate variability and long term trends as revealed by new high resolution EPICA Dome C deuterium data – A comparison with the Holocene

Author: Sigfus J Johnsen, K. Pol, Bénédicte Minster, Barbara Stenni, Jean Jouzel, Maxime Debret, Amaelle Landais, Emilie Capron, Gabrielle Dreyfus, S. Falourd, Valérie Masson-Delmotte, Olivier Cattani, 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), Morphodynamique Continentale et Côtière (M2C), Université de Caen Normandie (UNICAEN), Normandie Université (NU)-Normandie Université (NU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université de Rouen Normandie (UNIROUEN), Normandie Université (NU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), 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), 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), Dipartimento di Scienze Geologiche [Trieste], Università degli studi di Trieste, Pol, K., Debret, M., Masson Delmotte, V., Capron, E., Cattani, O., Dreyfus, G., Falourd, S., Johnsen, S., Jouzel, J., Landais, A., Minster, B., Stenni, Barbara, 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), University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (UCPH)-University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (UCPH)-Faculty of Science [Copenhagen], University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (UCPH)-University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (UCPH), and Università degli studi di Trieste = University of Trieste
Subjects: 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Stratigraphy, Dome, lcsh:Environmental protection, High resolution, 010502 geochemistry & geophysics, 01 natural sciences, interglacials, Ice core, lcsh:Environmental pollution, Stage (stratigraphy), MIS 11, lcsh:TD169-171.8, Holocene, lcsh:Environmental sciences, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, lcsh:GE1-350, Global and Planetary Change, EPICA Dome C, Paleontology, interglacial, Term (time), Deuterium profile, 13. Climate action, [SDU.STU.CL]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Climatology, Climatology, Interglacial, lcsh:TD172-193.5, Period (geology), Antarctica, ice core, Geology
Abstract: We expand here the description of the Antarctic temperature variability during the long interglacial period occurring ~400 thousand years before the present (Marine Isotopic Stage, MIS 11). Our study is based on new detailed deuterium measurements conducted on the EPICA Dome C ice core, Antarctica, with a ~50 year temporal resolution. Despite an ice diffusion of a length reaching ~8 cm at MIS 11 depth, the data allow us to highlight a variability at multi-centennial scale for MIS 11, as it has already been observed for the Holocene period (MIS 1). The differences between MIS 1 and MIS 11 are analysed regarding the links between multi-millennial trends and sub-millennial variability. The EPICA Dome C deuterium record shows an increased variability and the onset of millennial to sub-millennial periodicities at the beginning of the final cooling phase of MIS 11. Our findings are robust with respect to sensitivity tests on the somewhat uncertain MIS 11 duration.
Published: 2011
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108. Isotopic composition and thermal regime of ice wedges in Northern Victoria Land, East Antarctica

Author: Barbara Stenni, Rossana Raffi, Raffi, R., and Stenni, Barbara
Subjects: geography, geography.geographical_feature_category, δ18O, Ice stream, antarctica, frost cracking, Permafrost, Atmospheric sciences, Snow, sublimation, Ice wedge, ice wedge, ice wedge, frost cracking, stable water isotopes, hoarfrost, sublimation, Antarctica, ground thermal regime, Sea ice, Cryosphere, Sublimation (phase transition), hoarfrost, ground thermal regime, stable water isotopes, Geomorphology, Geology, Earth-Surface Processes
Abstract: Ice wedges, with tops located 27 to 55 cm below the ground surface, were studied over several summers between 1998 and 2006 at three sites with differing elevations in northern Victoria Land, East Antarctica. The thermal regime, based on data-logger measurements over five years, exhibits very low temperatures, an inferred absence of snow, and high temperature gradients between the ground surface and the top of the ice wedge that may trigger cracking. A co-isotopic study of the wedge-ice oxygen (δ18O) and hydrogen (δD) isotopic values shows extremely negative deuterium excess values and a strong divergence from the expected precipitation. These values and observations of hoarfrost crystals in ice-wedge cracks during summer field surveys indicate that sublimation processes control the formation of ice in wedges, especially at high elevations within this region. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Published: 2011

109. Isotopic and temperature data from northern Victoria Land ice wedges (East Antarctica)

Author: Raffi, Rossana and Barbara, Stenni
Subjects: Ice wedge
Published: 2011

110. Expression of the bipolar see-saw in Antarctic climate records during the last deglaciation

Author: Simon Schüpbach, Mélanie Baroni, Bénédicte Lemieux-Dudon, Robert Mulvaney, Amaelle Landais, Mirko Severi, Mattia Bonazza, Emilie Capron, J. R. Petit, Emiliano Castellano, Maurine Montagnat, Massimo Frezzotti, Valérie Masson-Delmotte, Valter Maggi, Biancamaria Narcisi, D. Buiron, J. M. Barnola, Roberto Udisti, Bénédicte Minster, Catherine Ritz, Matthias Baumgartner, Adrian Schilt, L. Genoni, Jérôme Chappellaz, Barbara Delmonte, Thomas F. Stocker, Frédéric Parrenin, Carlo Barbante, Hans Oerter, Paola Iacumin, E. Selmo, Jakob Schwander, Edouard Bard, Barbara Stenni, Sepp Kipfstuhl, Claudio Scarchilli, S. Falourd, Samuel Albani, Jean Jouzel, C. Mazzola, Dipartimento di Scienze Geologiche [Trieste], Università degli studi di Trieste, CLIPS, 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)-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), Italian National agency for new technologies, Energy and sustainable economic development [Frascati] (ENEA), Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca [Milano] (UNIMIB), Institute for the Dynamics of Environmental Processes-CNR, University of Ca’ Foscari [Venice, Italy], Environmental Sciences Department, Chaire Evolution du climat et de l'océan, Centre européen de recherche et d'enseignement des géosciences de l'environnement (CEREGE), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Collège de France (CdF (institution))-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)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Collège de France (CdF (institution))-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), 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), 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), Department of Chemistry, Università degli Studi di Firenze = University of Florence [Firenze] (UNIFI), 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), Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, University of Parma = Università degli studi di Parma [Parme, Italie], Alfred-Wegener-Institut, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung (AWI), EDGe, British Antarctic Survey (BAS), Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), European Project: 331615,EC:FP7:PEOPLE,FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IIF,TALDICE HOLOCENE(2013), Università degli studi di Trieste = University of Trieste, Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers de Grenoble (OSUG), Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - 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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 Milano-Bicocca = University of Milano-Bicocca (UNIMIB), Collège de France - Chaire Evolution du climat et de l'océan, 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), Università degli Studi di Firenze = University of Florence (UniFI), 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 Parma = University of Parma (UNIPR), 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), University of Milano, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Collège de France (CdF)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), 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), Università degli Studi di Firenze [Firenze], Università degli studi di Parma [Parme, Italie], Stenni, B., Buiron, D., Frezzotti, M., Albani, S., Barbante, C., Bard, E., Barnola, J. M., Baroni, M., Baumgartner, M., Bonazza, M., Capron, E., Castellano, E., Chappellaz, J., Delmonte, B., Falourd, S., Genoni, L., Iacumin, P., Jouzel, J., Kipfstuhl, S., Landais, A., Lemieux-Dudon, B., Maggi, V., Masson-Delmotte, V., Mazzola, C., Minster, B., Montagnat, M., Mulvaney, R., Narcisi, B., Oerter, H., Parrenin, F., Petit, J. R., Ritz, C., Scarchilli, C., Schilt, A., Schupbach, S., Schwander, J., Selmo, E., Severi, M., Stocker, T. F., Udisti, R., Stenni, Barbara, Baroni, C., Baumgartner, S., Bonazza, Mattia, Genoni, Laura, Kipfsthul, J., Lemieux Dudon, B., Masson Delmotte, V., Schüpbach, S., Stocker, T., Stenni, B, Buiron, D, Frezzotti, M, Albani, S, Barbante, C, Bard, E, Barnola, J, Baroni, M, Baumgartner, M, Bonazza, M, Capron, E, Castellano, E, Chappellaz, J, Delmonte, B, Falourd, S, Genoni, L, Iacumin, P, Jouzel, J, Kipfstuhl, S, Landais, A, Lemieux Dudon, B, Maggi, V, Masson Delmotte, V, Mazzola, C, Minster, B, Montagnat, M, Mulvaney, R, Narcisi, B, Oerter, H, Parrenin, F, Petit, J, Ritz, C, Scarchilli, C, Schilt, A, Schüpbach, S, Schwander, J, Selmo, E, Severi, M, Stocker, T, and Udisti, R
Subjects: Atlantic Sector, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, polar ice cores, methane synchronization, bipolar seesaw, last deglaciation, East Antarctica, Ross Sea, GEO/04 - GEOGRAFIA FISICA E GEOMORFOLOGIA, Greenland, polar ice core, temperature effect, deglaciation, 010502 geochemistry & geophysics, 01 natural sciences, palaeoclimate, palaeoceanography, Antarctic Cold Reversal, temporal record, Arctic, Ice cap climate, core analysis, Deglaciation, [SDU.STU.GL]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Glaciology, Southern Ocean, Talos Dome, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Last Glacial, European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica, Climate oscillation, Future sea level, Ice-sheet model, climate change, Oceanography, 13. Climate action, [SDU.STU.CL]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Climatology, Climatology, Abrupt climate change, Antarctica, General Earth and Planetary Sciences, stable isotopes, paleoclimate, ice cores, antarctica, ice core, Geology
Abstract: Ice-core records of climate from Greenland and Antarctica show asynchronous temperature variations on millennial timescales during the last glacial period 1 . The warming during the transition from glacial to interglacial conditions was markedly different between the hemispheres, a pattern attributed to the thermal bipolar see-saw 2 . However, a record from the Ross Sea sector of East Antarctica has been suggested to be synchronous with Northern Hemisphere climate change 3 . Here we present a temperature record from the Talos Dome ice core, also located in the Ross Sea sector. We compare our record with ice-core analyses from Greenland, based on methane synchronization 4 , and find clearly asynchronous temperature changes during the deglaciation. We also find distinct differences in Antarctic records, pointing to differences in the climate evolution of the Indo-Pacific and Atlantic sectors of Antarctica. In the Atlantic sector, we find that the rate of warming slowed between 16,000 and 14,500 years ago, parallel with the deceleration of the rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations and with a slight cooling over Greenland. In addition, our chronology supports the hypothesis that the cooling of the Antarctic Cold Reversal is synchronous with the Bolling‐Allerod warming in the northern hemisphere 14,700 years ago 5 . The period from about 8 to 25kyr before present (bp) includes the climate transition from the last glacial to the Holocene. As documented from polar ice cores and other climate archives, the pattern of climate changes throughout this transition is different between Antarctica and the surrounding Southern Ocean and the Northern Hemisphere. The steady Antarctic deglacial warming reaches a first maximum (Antarctic Isotopic Maximum AIM1; ref.1)followedbyaninterruptiontowardscoolerconditionsduring the Antarctic Cold Reversal (ACR). Conversely, Greenland records show two rapid-warming phases at the onset of the Dansgaard Oeschger-1(DO1)event(BllingAller dinterstadial,B/A)andthe
Published: 2011
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111. Sub-millennial climate variability during MIS 11 revealed by high resolution EPICA Dome C isotopic data – a comparison with the Holocene

Author: G. Dreyfus, O. Cattani, Emilie Capron, K. Pol, Barbara Stenni, S. Falourd, Valérie Masson-Delmotte, Sigfus J Johnsen, Maxime Debret, Amaelle Landais, B. Minster, and Jean Jouzel
Subjects: Dome (geology), Oceanography, High resolution, Physical geography, Holocene, Geology
Abstract: We expand here the description of the Antarctic temperature variability during the long interglacial period occurring ~400 thousand years before present (Marine Isotopic Stage, MIS 11). This is achieved thanks to new detailed deuterium measurements conducted on the EPICA Dome C ice core, Antarctica, with a ~50 year temporal resolution. Despite an ice diffusion length reaching ~8 cm at MIS 11 depth, the data allow to highlight a variability at multi-centennial scale for MIS 11, as it has already been observed for the Holocene (MIS 1). Differences between MIS 1 and MIS 11 are analysed regarding the links between multi-millennial trends and sub-millennial variability. The EPICA Dome C deuterium record shows an increased variability and a shift in the observed periodicities at the onset of the final cooling phase of MIS 11, with stronger millennial to multi-millennial variability. Our findings are robust with respect to sensitivity tests on the somewhat uncertain MIS 11 duration.
Published: 2010
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112. Abrupt change of Antarctic moisture origin at the end of Termination II

Author: Enricomaria Selmo, Jérôme Chappellaz, Gareth J. Marshall, Sigfus J Johnsen, Jean Jouzel, Claire Waelbroeck, Kenji Kawamura, Aline Govin, Bénédicte Minster, Barbara Stenni, Olivier Cattani, Richard Lawrence Edwards, Bénédicte Lemieux-Dudon, K. Pol, Amaelle Landais, Hai Cheng, Regine Röthlisberger, Manfred Mudelsee, S. Falourd, Anna Lourantou, Valérie Masson-Delmotte, Gabrielle Dreyfus, Thomas Blunier, 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), 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), Dipartimento di Scienze Geologiche [Trieste], Università degli studi di Trieste = University of Trieste, Centre for Ice and Climate [Copenhagen], Niels Bohr Institute [Copenhagen] (NBI), Faculty of Science [Copenhagen], University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (UCPH)-University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (UCPH)-Faculty of Science [Copenhagen], University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (UCPH)-University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (UCPH), CLIPS, 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 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)-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 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), Department of Geology and Geophysics [Minnesota], University of Minnesota [Twin Cities] (UMN), University of Minnesota System-University of Minnesota System, Climat et Magnétisme (CLIMAG), National Institute of Polar Research [Tokyo] (NiPR), British Antarctic Survey (BAS), Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), Department of Bentho-pelagic processes, Alfred-Wegener-Institut, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung (AWI), Climate Risk Analysis (CRAAM), Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università degli studi di Parma = University of Parma (UNIPR), Paléocéanographie (PALEOCEAN), European Project: 39423,FP6-SUSTDEV,EPICA-MIS, 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), Università degli studi di Trieste, 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), 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), University of Minnesota [Twin Cities], Università degli studi di Parma [Parme, Italie], 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)-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), 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)-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), University of Parma = Università degli studi di Parma [Parme, Italie], Masson Delmotte, V., Stenni, Barbara, Blunier, T., Cattani, O., Chappellaz, J., Cheng, H., Dreyfus, G., Edwards, R. L., Falourd, S., Govin, A., Kawamura, K., Johnsen, S. J., Jouzel, J., Landais, A., Lemieux Dudon, B., Lourantou, A., Marshall, G. J., Minster, B., Mudelsee, M., Pol, K., Röthlisberger, R., Selmo, E., and Waelbroeck, C.
Subjects: Time Factors, deuterium excess, water stable isotopes, deglaciations, bipolar seesaw, site temperature, source temperature, polar ice cores, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Paleoclimate, Climate, Greenland, 010502 geochemistry & geophysics, 01 natural sciences, atmospheric moisture, Westerlies, Ice core, deuterium exce, Glacial period, Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean, deuterium, water stable isotope, seasonal variation, Multidisciplinary, termination II, European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica, methane, article, Temperature, interglacial, priority journal, Climatology, Physical Sciences, Interglacial, Seasons, Geology, Environmental Monitoring, warming, Atmospheric circulation, Climate Change, Climate change, Antarctic Regions, deglaciation, Paleoclimatology, [SDU.STU.GM]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Geomorphology, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Ice, Last interglacial, carbon dioxide, 13. Climate action, Antarctica
Abstract: The deuterium excess of polar ice cores documents past changes in evaporation conditions and moisture origin. New data obtained from the European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica Dome C East Antarctic ice core provide new insights on the sequence of events involved in Termination II, the transition between the penultimate glacial and interglacial periods. This termination is marked by a north–south seesaw behavior, with first a slow methane concentration rise associated with a strong Antarctic temperature warming and a slow deuterium excess rise. This first step is followed by an abrupt north Atlantic warming, an abrupt resumption of the East Asian summer monsoon, a sharp methane rise, and a CO 2 overshoot, which coincide within dating uncertainties with the end of Antarctic optimum. Here, we show that this second phase is marked by a very sharp Dome C centennial deuterium excess rise, revealing abrupt reorganization of atmospheric circulation in the southern Indian Ocean sector.
Published: 2010
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113. On the reproducibility and repeatability of laser absorption spectroscopy measurements for δ2H and δ18O isotopic analysis

Author: Mattia Bonazza, Barbara Stenni, A. Gobbi, Benjamin Fischer, Marco Borga, Sebastian Wrede, Thom Bogaard, Martin Šanda, Z. Chárová, and Daniele Penna
Subjects: Accuracy and precision, Reproducibility, Materials science, Nuclear magnetic resonance, Spectrometer, Analytical chemistry, Range (statistics), Repeatability, Absorption (electromagnetic radiation), Mass spectrometry, Spectroscopy
Abstract: The aim of this study was to analyse the reproducibility of off-axis integrated cavity output spectroscopy (OA-ICOS)-derived δ2H and δ18O measurements on a set of 35 water samples by comparing the performance of four laser spectroscopes with the performance of a conventional mass spectrometer under typical laboratory conditions. All samples were analysed using three different schemes of standard/sample combinations and related data processing to assess the improvement of results compared with mass spectrometry. The repeatability of the four OA-ICOS instruments was further investigated by multiple analyses of a sample subset to evaluate the stability of δ2H and δ18O measurements. Results demonstrated an overall agreement between OA-ICOS-based and mass spectrometry-based measurements for the entire dataset. However, a certain degree of variability existed in precision and accuracy between the four instruments. There was no evident bias or systematic deviations from the mass spectrometer values, but random errors, which were apparently not related to external factors, significantly affected the final results. Our investigation revealed that analytical precision ranged from ±0.56‰ to 1.80‰ for δ2H and from ±0.10‰ to 0.27‰ for δ18O measurements, with a marked variability among the four instruments. The overall capability of laser instruments to reproduce stable results with repeated measurements of the same sample was acceptable, and there were general differences within the range of the analytical precision for each spectroscope. Hence, averaging the measurements of three identical samples led to a higher degree of accuracy and eliminated the potential for random deviations.
Published: 2010
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114. New MIS 19 EPICA Dome C high resolution deuterium data: hints for a problematic preservation of climate variability at sub-millennial scale in the 'oldest ice'

Author: Bénédicte Minster, Catherine Ritz, Matthias Bigler, Geoffroy Durand, S. Falourd, Olivier Cattani, Sigfus J Johnsen, Barbara Stenni, K. Pol, Hans Christian Steen-Larsen, Jean Jouzel, Frédéric Parrenin, Valérie Masson-Delmotte, 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), Geophysics and Water Resources, Section for Geology [Copenhagen], Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management [Copenhagen] (IGN), 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)-Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management [Copenhagen] (IGN), University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (KU)-University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (KU), Centre for Ice and Climate [Copenhagen], Niels Bohr Institute [Copenhagen] (NBI), EDGe, 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)-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), Dipartimento di Scienze Geologiche [Trieste], Università degli studi di Trieste, ANR-05-BLAN-0312,PICC(2005), European Project: 39423,FP6-SUSTDEV,EPICA-MIS, 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 - 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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), ANR PICC, ANR Dome A,ANR PICC, ANR Dome A, Pol, K., Masson Delmotte, V., Johnsen, S., Bigler, M., Cattani, O., Durand, G., Falourd, S., Jouzel, J., Minster, B., Parrenin, F., Ritz, C., Steen Larsen, H. C., and Stenni, Barbara
Subjects: Marine isotope stage, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Earth science, water stable isotopes, ice cores, 01 natural sciences, 03 medical and health sciences, Dome (geology), Paleontology, Ice core, Geochemistry and Petrology, Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous), [SDU.STU.GL]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Glaciology, Diffusion (business), Holocene, 030304 developmental biology, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, water stable isotope, 0303 health sciences, Ice crystals, Geophysics, isotopic diffusion, 13. Climate action, Space and Planetary Science, Antarctica, Ice cores, Isotopic diffusion, Water stable isotopes, Interglacial, Precession, ice core, Geology
Abstract: International audience; Marine Isotope Stage 19 (MIS 19) is the oldest interglacial period archived in the EPICA Dome C ice core (~ 780 ky BP) and the closest "orbital analogue" to the Holocene -- albeit with a different obliquity amplitude and phase with precession. New detailed deuterium measurements have been conducted with a depth resolution of 11 cm (corresponding time resolution of ~ 130 years). They confirm our earlier low resolution profile (55 cm), showing a relatively smooth shape over the MIS 20 to MIS 18 time period with a lack of sub-millennial climate variability, first thought to be due to this low resolution. The MIS 19 high resolution profile actually reveals a strong isotopic diffusion process leading to a diffusion length of at least ~ 40 cm erasing sub-millennial climate variability. We suggest that this diffusion is caused by water-veins associated with large ice crystals at temperatures above ‑10 °C, temperature conditions in which the MIS 19 ice has spent more than 200 ky. This result has implications for the selection of the future "oldest ice" drilling site.
Published: 2010
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115. The deuterium excess records of EPICA Dome C and Dronning Maud Land ice cores (East Antarctica)

Author: S. Falourd, E. Selmo, Paola Iacumin, Sigfus J Johnsen, Barbara Stenni, Jean Jouzel, Olivier Cattani, Bénédicte Minster, Valérie Masson-Delmotte, Hubertus Fischer, Regine Röthlisberger, Hanno Meyer, Hans Oerter, Roberto Udisti, George R. Hoffmann, Stenni, Barbara, Masson Delmotte, V., Selmo, E., Oerter, H., Meyer, H., Röthlisberger, R., Jouzel, J., Cattani, O., Falourd, S., Fischer, H., Hoffmann, G., Iacumin, P., Johnsen, S. J., Minster, B., Udisti, R., Department of Geological, Environmental and Marine Sciences [Trieste], Università degli studi di Trieste = University of Trieste, 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), 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), Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research (OCCR), University of Bern, Università degli studi di Trieste, 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), and 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)
Subjects: Archeology, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, δ18O, ice cores, site temperature, 010502 geochemistry & geophysics, 01 natural sciences, Isotopes of oxygen, deuterium excess, oxygen isotopes, source temperature, East Antarctica, EPICA, calcium, sodium, EDML, EDC, Ice core, deuterium exce, oxygen isotope, Glacial period, Precipitation, [SDU.ENVI]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Continental interfaces, environment, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Holocene, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, [SDU.OCEAN]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Ocean, Atmosphere, Global and Planetary Change, Geology, Glaciology, 13. Climate action, Climatology, Seawater, ice core
Abstract: New high-resolution deuterium excess (d) data from the two EPICA ice cores drilled in Dronning Maud Land (EDML) and Dome C (EDC) are presented here. The main moisture sources for precipitation at EDC and EDML are located in the Indian Ocean and Atlantic Ocean, respectively. The more southward moisture origin for EDML is reflected in a lower present-day d value, compared to EDC. The EDML and EDC isotopic records (δ18O and d) show the main climate features common to the East Antarctic plateau and similar millennial scale climate variability during the last glacial period. However, quite large δ18O and d differences are observed during MIS5.5 and the glacial inception with a long-term behaviour. A possibility for this long-term difference could be related to uncertainties in past accumulation rate which are used in the glaciological models. Regional climate anomalies between the two sites during MIS5.5 could also be consistent with the observed EDML-EDC δ18O and d gradient anomalies. Simulations performed with the General Circulation Model ECHAM4 for different time slices provide a temporal temperature/isotope slope for the EDML region in fair agreement to the modern spatial slope. Tsite and Tsource records are extracted from both ice cores, using a modelling approach, after corrections for past δ18O seawater and elevation changes. A limited impact of d on Antarctic temperature reconstruction at both EDML and EDC has been found with a higher impact only at glacial inception. The AIM (Antarctic Isotope Maximum) events in both ice cores are visible also after the source correction, suggesting that these are real climate features of the glacial period. The different shape of the AIM events between EDC and EDML, as well as some climate features in the early Holocene, points to a slightly different climate evolution at regional scale. A comparison of our temperature reconstruction profiles with the aerosol fluxes show a strong coupling of the nssCa fluxes with Antarctic temperatures during glacial period and a tighter coupling of δ18O and Tsite with ssNa flux at EDML compared to EDC during the glacial period and MIS5.5.
Published: 2010
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116. Radiocarbon ages of pedogenic carbonate nodules from Coimbatore region, Tamil Nadu

Author: Hema Achyuthan, Barbara Stenni, Navin Shankar, O. Flora, Martina Braida, Achyuthan, H., Flora, Onelio, Braida, Martina, Shankar, N., and Stenni, Barbara
Subjects: Marine isotope stage, Radiocarbon age, Calcic nodules, Radiocarbon ages, Vertosol, Late MIS 3 period, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Vertisol, law.invention, chemistry.chemical_compound, law, Radiocarbon dating, Geology, humanities, language.human_language, Pedogenesis, chemistry, Tamil, language, Carbonate, Calcic nodule
Abstract: In this paper we discuss the limitation of radiocarbon dates on the pedogenic calcic nodules formed in situ within the vertisols in the upland region of Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu. The radiocarbon ages were obtained using low-level scintillation counters and the dates range from ∼24 to 31 14C kyrs BP. The ages correlate with the marine isotope stage of Late MIS3. However, since the calcic nodules are pedogenised and formed in an open system, the 14C ages should only be considered as estimates and not absolute ages because of the possibility of open-system behaviour with respect to carbon. Thus, we express caution in the interpretation of these and other radiocarbon ages obtained on pedogenic carbonate nodules. Multiple sub-mm size subsamples could provide more reliable age estimates.
Published: 2010

117. The dynamics of central Main Ethiopian Rift waters: Evidence from δD, δ18O and 87Sr/86Sr ratios

Author: Tenalem Ayenew, Francesca Federica Slejko, Tewodros Rango, Gianluca Bianchini, Barbara Stenni, Riccardo Petrini, and Luigi Beccaluva
Subjects: geography, geography.geographical_feature_category, Groundwater flow, δ18O, Stable isotope ratio, Geochemistry, Aquifer, Groundwater recharge, Pollution, Geochemistry and Petrology, Meteoric water, Environmental Chemistry, Geomorphology, Surface water, Geology, Groundwater
Abstract: Water samples from cold and geothermal boreholes, hot springs, lakes and rivers were analyzed for δD, δ18O and 87Sr/86Sr compositions in order to investigate lake water–groundwater mixing processes, water–rock interactions, and to evaluate groundwater flow paths in the central Main Ethiopian Rift (MER) of the Ziway–Shala basin. Different ranges of isotopic values were recorded for different water types: hot springs show δ18O −3.36 to +3.69 and δD −15.85 to +24.23, deep Aluto-Langano geothermal wells show δ18O −4.65 to −1.24 and δD −12.39 to −9.31, groundwater wells show δ18O −3.99 to +5.14 and δD −19.69 to +32.27, whereas the lakes show δ18O and δD in the range +3.98 to +7.92 and +26.19 to +45.71, respectively. The intersection of the Local Meteoric Water Line (LMWL: δD = 7 δ18O + 11.2, R2 = 0.94, n = 42) and the Local Evaporation Line (LEL: δD = 5.63δ18O + 8, n = 14, R2 = 0.82) was used to estimate the average isotopic composition of recharge water into the basin (δD = −5.15 and δ18O = −2.34). These values are depleted if compared with the modern-day average precipitation, presumably indicating paleo-groundwater components recharged during previous humid climatic phases. The measured stable isotope values indicate that the geothermal wells, some of the hot springs and groundwater wells mainly consist of meteoric water. The Sr isotopic signatures in all waters are within the range of the Sr isotopic composition of the rift basalts and rhyolites. The variability of Sr isotopic data also pinpoints complex water–rock interaction and mixing processes in groundwater and surface water. The 87Sr/86Sr ratio ranges from 0.70445 to 0.70756 in the hot springs, from 0.70426 to 0.70537 in two deep geothermal wells, and from 0.70673 to 0.70721 in the rift lakes Ziway, Langano, Shala and Awasa. The radiogenic composition recorded by the lakes indicates that the input water was predominantly affected by progressive interaction with rhyolitic volcanics and lacustrine sediments. There is a change in MER water composition between the recharge-infiltration zone (surrounding highlands) and the discharge areas, from depleted δD, δ18O and less radiogenic Sr isotope compositions to enriched δD, δ18O and more radiogenic Sr isotope compositions. Isotope analyses are therefore useful in providing further understanding of the hydrologeological processes occurring within a productive aquifer and the surface water system.
Published: 2010

118. Oxygen isotope composition as a tool for aquifer assessment: the CAMI-Life project case

Author: Flora, O., Di Varmo, J., Barbara Stenni, Genoni, L., Carniel, A., Flora, Onelio, DI VARMO, Jacopo, Stenni, Barbara, Genoni, Laura, and Carniel, A.
Subjects: Oxygen isotope composition, aquifer, North-East Italy, aquifers, precipitation, CAMI-Life
Published: 2009

119. A stable isotope study of the Garda lake, northern Italy: its hydrological balance

Author: Barbara Stenni, L. Genoni, Antonio Longinelli, C. Defrancesco, O. Flora, G. Pellegrini, Longinelli, A., Stenni, Barbara, Genoni, Laura, Flora, Onelio, Defrancesco, C., and Pellegrini, G.
Subjects: Hydrology, Water mass, geography, geography.geographical_feature_category, oxygen isotopes, tritium, hydrogen isotope, Drainage basin, Stratification (water), Aquifer, Groundwater recharge, hydrogen isotopes, Water balance, Garda lake, hydrological balance, oxygen isotope, Surface water, Groundwater, Geology, Water Science and Technology
Abstract: Summary Discontinuous measurements of the isotopic composition of surface water samples of the Garda lake carried out between 1998 and 2006 showed almost constant δ 18 O, δ D and d -excess values through time. During 2006 and 2007 monthly vertical profiles of water samples were collected in the northernmost section of the lake, not far from the main inflow (Sarca river) to check whether there was any detectable influence from this inflowing river and whether there was a vertical isotopic stratification of the lake water. The isotopic measurement of water samples from the vertical profiles yielded isotopic values which were almost equal to those obtained from surface waters showing no detectable effect of the inflowing river water and no isotopic vertical stratification. The attempt to evaluate the evaporation rate of lake water by means of current models was totally unsuccessful. Despite the marked summer warming of the surface layer no isotopic fractionation related to evaporation processes could be detected. This anomalous behaviour may be related to the large amount of spring and summer precipitation characteristic of this area. The water balance of the lake calculated according to the amount of the inflowing water (Sarca river water plus rain water on the lake plus 20% of the precipitations on the whole catchment basin) and to the amount of outflowing water (Mincio river) showed a large imbalance, the river outflow alone resulting on average, during the last decade, at least double the inflow. To explain this imbalance of the lake, a large recharge by concealed groundwater is suggested: its isotopic composition should be quite close to the mean isotopic composition of precipitations over that area. This would be in agreement with the almost constant isotopic composition of both surface and deep waters and with the lack of vertical isotopic stratification. A few measurements of the tritium concentration carried out on lake water show values that are considerably higher than modern tritium values either in precipitation or in the Sarca river water: these results are in good agreement with the hypothesis of a recharge of the lake by deep aquifers.
Published: 2008

120. A Review of Antarctic Surface Snow Isotopic Composition: Observations, Atmospheric Circulation, and Isotopic Modeling

Author: M. R. van den Broeke, Amaelle Landais, George R. Hoffmann, Alberto J. Aristarain, S. Falourd, Shugui Hou, Olivier Cattani, David Noone, M. M. Helsen, Valérie Masson-Delmotte, Françoise Vimeux, J. R. Petit, A. Royer, Jean Jouzel, Barbara Stenni, W. J. van de Berg, H. Oerter, Gavin A. Schmidt, R. S. W. van de Wal, Michel Stievenard, Eric J. Steig, Hubert Gallée, J. Lopez, Alexey A. Ekaykin, James W. C. White, L. Genoni, Jefferson Cardia Simões, Elisabeth Schlosser, Elisabeth Isaksson, Massimo Frezzotti, David H. Bromwich, Hideaki Motoyama, Vin Morgan, Ryu Uemura, Ronaldo T. Bernardo, Marc Delmotte, 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), Laboratory of Cryosphere and Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences [Beijing] (CAS), Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (AARI), Russian Federal Service for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring (Roshydromet), Laboratorio de Estratigrafía Glaciar y Geoquímica del Agua y de la Nieve, Instituto Antártico Argentino, Nucleo de Pesquisas Antarcticas e Climaticas, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul [Porto Alegre] (UFRGS), Ohio State University [Columbus] (OSU), ICOS-RAMCES (ICOS-RAMCES), Ente per le Nuove Tecnologie, l'Energia e l'Ambiente (ENEA), Centro Ricerche Casaccia, 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), 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)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-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]), Department of Geological, Environmental and Marine Sciences [Trieste], Università degli studi di Trieste, Norwegian Polar Institute, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJ), Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research [Utrecht] (IMAU), Utrecht University [Utrecht], Departamento de Geologica y Geoquimica, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (UAM), Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre (ACE-CRC), National Institute of Polar Research [Tokyo] (NiPR), Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences [Boulder] (ATOC), University of Colorado [Boulder], Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado [Boulder]-National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Abteilung Klinische Sozialmedizin, Berufs- und Umweltdermatologie, Universität Heidelberg [Heidelberg], NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), Institute of Meteorology and Geophysics [Innsbruck], University of Innsbruck, Department of Earth and Space Sciences [Seattle], University of Washington [Seattle], Géochrononologie Traceurs Archéométrie (GEOTRAC), Glaciers et ressources en eau d'altitude - Indicateurs climatiques et environnementaux (GREATICE), Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR), European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica (EPICA), 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), 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 Earth Sciences, Hebrew University, GREATICE, 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), UAM. Departamento de Geología y Geoquímica, Masson Delmotte, V., Hou, S., Ekaykin, A., Jouzel, J., Aristarain, A., Bernardo, R. T., Bromwhich, D., Cattani, O., Delmotte, M., Falourd, S., Frezzotti, M., Gallée, H., Genoni, L., Isaksson, E., Landais, A., Helsen, H., Hoffmann, G., Lopez, J., Morgan, V., Motoyama, H., Noone, D., Oerter, H., Petit, J. R., Royer, A., Uemura, R., Schmidt, G. A., Schlosser, E., Simoes, J. C., Steig, E., Stenni, Barbara, Stievenard, M., van den Broeke, M., van de Wal, R., van den Berg, W. J., Vimeux, F., White, J. W. C., 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), 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 Trieste = University of Trieste, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), Universität Heidelberg [Heidelberg] = Heidelberg University, Leopold Franzens Universität Innsbruck - University of Innsbruck, Institute of Arctic Alpine Research [University of Colorado Boulder] (INSTAAR), Masson-Delmotte, V., Bromwich, D., Delmotte, M. M., Gallee, H., Helsen, M. M., Steig, E. J., Stenni, B., Van Den Broeke, M. R., Van De Wal, R. S. W., and Van De Berg, W. J.
Subjects: Atmospheric Science, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Atmospheric circulation, elevation, Surface snow, Antarctica, oxygen and hydrogen isotopes, deuterium excess, distance from the coast, latitude, isotopic models, general circulation atmospheric models, 010502 geochemistry & geophysics, Spatial distribution, 01 natural sciences, Latitude, Snow isotopic composition, isotopic model, deuterium exce, [SDU.STU.GL]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Glaciology, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Isotope analysis, Atmospheric models, Moisture advection, Snow, Atmospheric temperature, oxygen and hydrogen isotope, Medio Ambiente, 13. Climate action, Climatology, Surface Antarctic, Environmental science, Circulation atmospheric
Abstract: A database of surface Antarctic snow isotopic composition is constructed using available measurements, with an estimate of data quality and local variability. Although more than 1000 locations are documented, the spatial coverage remains uneven with a majority of sites located in specific areas of East Antarctica. The database is used to analyze the spatial variations in snow isotopic composition with respect to geographical characteristics (elevation, distance to the coast) and climatic features (temperature, accumulation) and with a focus on deuterium excess. The capacity of theoretical isotopic, regional, and general circulation atmospheric models (including "isotopic" models) to reproduce the observed features and assess the role of moisture advection in spatial deuterium excess fluctuations is analyzed, Stable isotope analyses at LSCE have been funded by CEA, CNRS, ACI C3. Italian research was funded by National Antarctic Research Program (PNRA). The calibration of the isotope–temperature relationship is part of the European Commission 6th PCRDT EPICA-MIS and French ANR PICC projects. This work is a contribution to the European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica (EPICA), a joint European Science Foundation/European Commission scientific program, funded by the EU and by national contributions from Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. The main logistic support was provided by IPEV and PNRA (at Dome C) and AWI (at Dronning Maud Land)
Published: 2008
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121. Siderophile metal fallout to Greenland from the 1991 winter eruption of Hekla (Iceland) and during the global atmospheric perturbation of Pinatubo

Author: Paolo Cescon, Christophe Ferrari, Carlo Barbante, Barbara Stenni, Giulio Cozzi, Vania Gaspari, Tamsin A. Mather, Paolo Gabrielli, Jean Luc Jaffrezo, John M. C. Plane, Claude F. Boutron, Institute for the Dynamics of Environmental Processes-CNR, University of Ca’ Foscari [Venice, Italy], School of Earth Sciences and Byrd Polar Research Center, Ohio State University [Columbus] (OSU), Environmental Sciences Department, School of Chemistry [Leeds], University of Leeds, 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), 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), Unité de Formation et de Recherche de Physique, Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF), Department of Earth Sciences [Oxford], University of Oxford [Oxford], Dipartimento di Scienze Geologiche [Trieste], Università degli studi di Trieste, Polytech' Grenoble, Gabrielli, P., Barbante, C., Plane, J. M. C., Boutron, C., Jaffrezo, J. L., Mather, T. A., Stenni, Barbara, Gaspari, V., Cozzi, G., Ferrari, C., Cescon, P., 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), 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)
Subjects: 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Earth science, Anthropogenic emissions, Greenland, 010501 environmental sciences, snow pit, Atmospheric sciences, Iridium, 01 natural sciences, Atmosphere, Troposphere, Geochemistry and Petrology, Snow, Siderophile elements, platinum, [SDU.STU.GL]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Glaciology, Volcanic eruptions, Pinatubo, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Platinum, Siderophile element, geography, geography.geographical_feature_category, Advection, Volcanic emissions, Geology, Volcanic eruption, Aerosol, Volcano, 13. Climate action, Meteoric smoke, Seawater, Volcanic ash
Abstract: International audience; Ir and Pt are siderophile elements that are considered proxies of meteoric material of cosmic origin entrapped within polar ice layers. However, volcanic and anthropogenic fallouts have the potential to perturb their characteristic extraterrestrial signature even in remote polar areas. Here we show a record of Ir and Pt concentrations in snow samples collected from a 2.7 m pit, which was dug at Summit (Central Greenland), and covered five years from winter 1991 to summer 1995. A well-defined peak of Pt, and a spike of Ir, were found at the base of the snow pit record. These maxima occur in close concurrence with large concentration peaks in Al, Ag, Cd and Hg. Dating of the snow layers together with some geochemical evidence suggests that these peaks originated from the fallout to Greenland of volcanic ash emitted by the nearby Hekla volcano (Iceland), during the eruption of January–March 1991. Interestingly, an anomalous peak of methane sulfonic acid (MSA) in Greenland snow also corresponds to the Hekla ash fallout. This might point to an early biomass production in the North Atlantic Ocean during the first half of 1991, which was possibly stimulated by the fertilizing action of the Hekla ash fallout to seawater. During the following years (1992–1995) the global atmosphere was under the influence of the large perturbation produced by the eruption of Mt. Pinatubo (Philippines) in June 1991. Relatively high Ir and Pt concentrations with super-chondritic ratios are recorded especially during summer 1993. We discuss if this can be interpreted as the possible stratospheric input of Pinatubo's aerosol or fallout of extraterrestrial origin. During the same period the snow pit record was also influenced by the advection of air masses enriched in Pt with respect to Ir. One possibility is that this additional Pt contribution originated from widespread emissions into the troposphere produced by vehicles equipped with catalytic converters. In any case, Pt concentration levels found in recent Greenland snow are about two orders of magnitude lower than previously thought, pointing to a much lower anthropogenic contamination of the Arctic regions from Pt. This challenges the concept of an important hemispheric contamination of Pt from vehicles equipped with catalytic converters.
Published: 2008
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122. Stable isotope study of water, gypsum and carbonate samples from the Bannock and Tyro Basins, eastern Mediterranean

Author: Barbara Stenni, Antonio Longinelli, Stenni, Barbara, and Longinelli, A.
Subjects: Gypsum, Evaporite, sea water, stable isotopes, Mineralogy, engineering.material, Structural basin, Oceanography, Bottom water, chemistry.chemical_compound, Mediterranean sea, stable isotope, Mediterranean Sea, Environmental Chemistry, gypsum, Water Science and Technology, General Chemistry, chemistry, Settore GEO/08 - Geochimica e Vulcanologia, engineering, Carbonate, Seawater, Sedimentary rock, Geology
Abstract: Seawater and brine samples collected along vertical profiles above the Bannock and Tyro Basins (eastern Mediterranean), and gypsum samples collected by dredging and coring the anoxic section of the Bannock Basin, have been studied for their δ 18 O values. The following conclusions may be drawn from these data: (1) The water of the deep brines is isotopically slightly different from modern Mediterranean bottom water and might be a ‘fossil water’ possibly formed during a recent, climatically cooler stage or when the evaporation was slightly higher than nowadays. (2) The similarity between the δ 18 O values of the brine samples from the Bannock and Tyro Basins supports the possibility that the ages of the two basins are very close to each other. (3) Gypsum crystals on the bottom of the Bannock Basin are probably being formed by the dissolution and reprecipitation of sub-bottom (or outcropping) Messinian evaporites. This hypothesis is supported by the oxygen isotopic values exhibited by the gypsum crystallization water and by the oxygen and sulphur isotopic composition of gypsum. (4) The shells of pelagic organisms included in gypsum are probably very recent, but not contemporary, and may be referred to cooler environmental conditions.
Published: 1990
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123. Orbital and millennial Antarctic climate variability over the past 800,000 years

Author: Grant M. Raisbeck, Bénédicte Minster, Renato Spahni, J. C. Gallet, Jean-Marc Barnola, Jakob Schwander, Frédéric Parrenin, Valérie Masson-Delmotte, Enricomaria Selmo, Bernhard Stauffer, Jérôme Chappellaz, Dominique Raynaud, Thomas F. Stocker, Adrian Schilt, Barbara Stenni, Jean-Louis Tison, Jørgen Peder Steffensen, D. Luethi, Sigfus J Johnsen, Eric W. Wolff, Hans Oerter, Jean Jouzel, S. Falourd, O. Cattani, Hubertus Fischer, L. Loulergue, Martin Werner, Markus Leuenberger, Gabrielle Dreyfus, Julius Nouet, G. P. Hoffmann, Roland Souchez, Jouzel, J., Masson Delmotte, V., Cattani, O., Dreyfus, G., Falourd, S., Hoffmann, G., Minster, B., Nouet, J., Barnola, J. M., Chappellaz, J., Fisher, H., Gallet, J. C., Johnsen, S., Leuenberger, M., Loulergue, L., Luethi, D., Oerter, H., Parrenin, F., Raisbeck, G., Raynaud, D., Schilt, A., Schwander, J., Selmo, E., Souchez, R., Spahni, R., Stauffer, B., Steffensen, J. P., Stenni, Barbara, Stocker, T. F., Tison, J. L., Werner, M., Wolff, E. W., 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), 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), Abteilung Klinische Sozialmedizin, Berufs- und Umweltdermatologie, Universität Heidelberg [Heidelberg], Geophysics and Water Resources, Section for Geology [Copenhagen], Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management [Copenhagen] (IGN), 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)-Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management [Copenhagen] (IGN), University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (KU)-University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (KU), Science Institute, University of Iceland [Reykjavik], Physics Institute, University of Bern, 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), Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra [Parma], Università degli studi di Parma [Parme, Italie], Département des Sciences de la Terre et de l'Environnement, Université Libre de Bruxelles [Bruxelles] (ULB), Department of Geological, Environmental and Marine Sciences [Trieste], Università degli studi di Trieste, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry (MPI-BGC), Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, British Antarctic Survey (BAS), Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), 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), 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), 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), Universität Heidelberg [Heidelberg] = Heidelberg University, University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (UCPH)-University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (UCPH)-Faculty of Science [Copenhagen], University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (UCPH)-University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (UCPH)-Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management [Copenhagen] (IGN), University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (UCPH)-University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (UCPH), Università degli studi di Parma = University of Parma (UNIPR), Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Università degli studi di Trieste = University of Trieste, European Project: 39423,FP6-SUSTDEV,EPICA-MIS, 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)-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), 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), 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), and University of Parma = Università degli studi di Parma [Parme, Italie]
Subjects: Marine isotope stage, marine environment, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, EPICA Dome C, Antarctica, deuterium profile, site temperature, millennial climate variability, glacial-interglacial cycles, 010502 geochemistry & geophysics, 01 natural sciences, Ice core, Dome Concordia, Cryosphere, isotope labeling, deuterium, Multidisciplinary, geography.geographical_feature_category, methane, European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica, article, interglacial, Europe, climate change, Oceanography, priority journal, greenhouse gas, Climatology, Interglacial, temperature measurement, Geology, nitrogen oxide, general circulation model, Paleoclimatology, [SDU.STU.GL]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Glaciology, isotope, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, geography, amplitude modulation, carbon dioxide, marine isotope stage, East Antarctica, proxy climate record, climate variation, Ice-sheet model, 13. Climate action, Settore GEO/08 - Geochimica e Vulcanologia, ice core record, atmosphere, Ice sheet, glacial mass balance, ice core
Abstract: A high-resolution deuterium profile is now available along the entire European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica Dome C ice core, extending this climate record back to marine isotope stage 20.2, ~800,000 years ago. Experiments performed with an atmospheric general circulation model including water isotopes support its temperature interpretation. We assessed the general correspondence between Dansgaard-Oeschger events and their smoothed Antarctic counterparts for this Dome C record, which reveals the presence of such features with similar amplitudes during previous glacial periods. We suggest that the interplay between obliquity and precession accounts for the variable intensity of interglacial periods in ice core records. Northern and Southern hemisphere, methane, ice cores, Greenland, Antarctica, EPICA, Dansgaard–Oeschger events, Atlantic meridional overturning circulation.
Published: 2007
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124. One-to-one coupling of glacial climate variability in Greenland and Antarctica

Author: 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
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125. Rapid climate variability during warm and cold periods in polar regions and Europe

Author: Sigfus J Johnsen, Nicolas Caillon, Ulrich von Grafenstein, Amaelle Landais, Nathalie Combourieu-Nebout, Jean Jouzel, Jérôme Chappellaz, Dorthe Dahl-Jensen, Valérie Masson-Delmotte, Barbara Stenni, 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), 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), Institute of Earth Sciences, Hebrew University, Géochrononologie Traceurs Archéométrie (GEOTRAC), 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 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), Geophysics and Water Resources, Section for Geology [Copenhagen], Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management [Copenhagen] (IGN), Faculty of Science [Copenhagen], University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (UCPH)-University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (UCPH)-Faculty of Science [Copenhagen], University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (UCPH)-University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (UCPH)-Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management [Copenhagen] (IGN), University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (UCPH)-University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (UCPH), Dipartimento di Scienze Geologiche [Trieste], Università degli studi di Trieste = University of Trieste, European Commission, 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), 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)-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), 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 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)-Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management [Copenhagen] (IGN), University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (KU)-University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (KU), Università degli studi di Trieste, Masson Delmotte, V., Landais, A., Combourieu Nebout, N., von Grafenstein, U., Jouzel, J., Caillon, N., Chappellaz, J., Dahl Jensen, D., Johnsen, S. J., Stenni, Barbara, 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)-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), 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)
Subjects: 010506 paleontology, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Climate change, polar ice core, Palaeoclimate, 01 natural sciences, Lake, interglacials, Ice core, Dansgaard–Oeschger event, Rapid climate event, Glacial period, lake record, Holocene, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Global and Planetary Change, polar ice cores, Rapid climate events, Dansgaard–Oeschger events, Ice-sheet model, lake records, Settore GEO/08 - Geochimica e Vulcanologia, 13. Climate action, [SDU.STU.CL]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Climatology, Climatology, Ice cores, Interglacial, Abrupt climate change, General Earth and Planetary Sciences, Polar, Pollen, Geology
Abstract: Typical rapid climate events punctuating the last glacial period in Greenland, Europe and Antarctica are compared to two rapid events occurring under warmer conditions: ( i ) Dansgaard–Oeschger event 25, the first abrupt warming occurring during last glacial inception; ( ii ) 8.2 ka BP event, the only rapid cooling recorded during the Holocene in Greenland ice cores and in Ammersee, Germany. The rate of warming during previous warmer interglacial periods is estimated from polar ice cores to 1.5 °C per millennium, without abrupt changes. Climate change expected for the 21st century should however be at least 10 times faster. To cite this article: V. Masson-Delmotte et al., C. R. Geoscience 337 (2005).
Published: 2005
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126. Antarctic interglacial climate variability and implications for changes in ice sheet topography

Author: M. Siddall, K. Pol, H. Goosse, Valérie Masson-Delmotte, Barbara Stenni, Sarah L. Bradley, Louise C. Sime, and Emilie Capron
Subjects: Ice-sheet model, geography, geography.geographical_feature_category, Oceanography, Ice core, Ice stream, Interglacial, Sea ice, Cryosphere, Antarctic sea ice, Ice sheet, Geology
Published: 2013
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127. Chemical and isotopic snow variability in East Antarctica along the 2001/02 ITASE traverse

Author: O. Largiuni, L. Genoni, Mirko Severi, Silvia Benassai, Simone Luca Pili, Rita Traversi, O. Flora, Silvia Becagli, Barbara Stenni, Marco Proposito, R. Gragnani, Massimo Frezzotti, Roberto Udisti, Becagli, S., Proposito, M., Benassai, S., Flora, O., Genoni, L., Gragnani, R., Largiuni, O., Pili, S. L., Severi, M., Stenni, B., Traversi, R., Udisti, R., Frezzotti, M., and Stenni, Barbara
Subjects: Katabatic wind, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, chemical and isotopic profiles, Atmospheric circulation, chemical and isotopic profile, 010502 geochemistry & geophysics, Snow, 01 natural sciences, Dome (geology), snow accumulation, Altitude, Oceanography, Stratigraphy, surface snow, Settore GEO/08 - Geochimica e Vulcanologia, ITASE traverse, Antarctica, Talos Dome, Adelie Land, Spatial variability, Transect, Geology, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Earth-Surface Processes
Abstract: As part of the International Trans-Antarctic Scientific Expedition (ITASE) project, a traverse was carried out from November 2001 to January 2002 through Terre Adélie, George V Land, Oates Land and northern Victoria Land, for a total length of about 1875 km. The research goal is to determine the latitudinal and longitudinal variability of physical, chemical and isotopic parameters along three transects: one west–east transect (WE), following the 2150m contour line (about 400 km inland of the Adélie, George V and Oates coasts), and two north–south transects (inland Terre Adélie and Oates Coast–Talos Dome–Victoria Land). The intersection between the WE and Oates Coast–Victoria Land transects is in the Talos Dome area. Along the traverse, eight 2 m deep snow pits were dug and sampled with a 2.5 cm depth resolution. For spatial variability, 1 m deep integrated samples were collected every 5 km (363 sampling sites). In the snow-pit stratigraphy, pronounced annual cycles, with summer maxima, were observed for nssSO42–, MSA, NO3– and H2O2. The seasonality of these chemical trace species was used in combination with stable-isotope stratigraphy to derive reliable and temporally representative snow-accumulation rates. The study of chemical, isotopic and accumulation-rate variability allowed the identification of a distribution pattern which is controlled not only by altitude and distance from the sea, but also by the complex circulation of air masses in the study area. In particular, although the Talos Dome area is almost equidistant from the Southern Ocean and the Ross Sea, local atmospheric circulation is such that the area is strongly affected only by the Ross Sea. Moreover, we observed a decrease in concentration of aerosol components in the central portion of the WE transect and in the southern portion of the Talos Dome transect; this decrease was linked to the higher stability of atmospheric pressure due to the channelling of katabatic winds.
Published: 2004

128. A late-glacial high resolution site and source temperature record derived from the EPICA Dome C isotope records (East Antarctica)

Author: Olivier Cattani, Jean Jouzel, Barbara Stenni, Roland Souchez, Emiliano Castellano, Valérie Masson-Delmotte, Enricomaria Selmo, Antonio Longinelli, Regine Röthlisberger, S. Falourd, Jørgen Peder Steffensen, Sigfus J Johnsen, Roberto Udisti, Julian P. Sachs, Stenni, Barbara, Jouzel, J., Masson Delmotte, V., Röthlisberger, R., Castellano, E., Cattani, O., Falourd, S., Johnsen, S. J., Longinelli, A., Sachs, J. P., Selmo, E., Souchez, R., Steffensen, J. P., Udisti, R., Department of Geological, Environmental and Marine Sciences [Trieste], Università degli studi di Trieste, 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), British Antarctic Survey (BAS), Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), Università degli Studi di Firenze = University of Florence [Firenze] (UNIFI), Niels Bohr Institute [Copenhagen] (NBI), Faculty of Science [Copenhagen], University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (KU)-University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (KU), University of Parma = Università degli studi di Parma [Parme, Italie], Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Università degli studi di Trieste = University of Trieste, 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 Firenze = University of Florence (UniFI), University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (UCPH)-University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (UCPH), and Università degli studi di Parma = University of Parma (UNIPR)
Subjects: deuterium excess, deuterium, ice cores, site temperature, source temperature, East Antarctica, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, 010502 geochemistry & geophysics, Atmospheric sciences, 01 natural sciences, Ice core, Geochemistry and Petrology, Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous), deuterium exce, 14. Life underwater, Glacial period, [SDU.ENVI]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Continental interfaces, environment, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Temperature record, [SDU.OCEAN]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Ocean, Atmosphere, Stable isotope ratio, Last Glacial Maximum, Sea surface temperature, Temperature gradient, Geophysics, Settore GEO/08 - Geochimica e Vulcanologia, 13. Climate action, Space and Planetary Science, Climatology, Seawater, ice core, Geology
Abstract: The timing and synchronisation of Greenland and Antarctic climate events that occurred during the last glacial period are still under debate, as is the magnitude of temperature change associated with these events. Here we present detailed records of local and moisture-source temperature changes spanning the period 27-45 kyr BP from water stable isotope measurements (deltaD and delta(18)O) in the recently drilled EPICA Dome C ice core, East Antarctic plateau. Using a simple isotopic model, site (DeltaT(site)) and source (DeltaT(source)) temperatures are extracted from the initial 50-yr high-resolution isotopic records, taking into account the changes in seawater isotopic composition. The deuterium isotope variability is very similar to the less precise deltaD record from the Vostok ice core, and the site temperature inversion leads to a temperature profile similar to the classical palaeothermometry method, due to compensations between source and ocean water corrections. The reconstructed DeltaT(site) and DeltaT(source) profiles show different trends during the glacial: the former shows a decreasing trend from the warm Al event (38 kyr BP) toward the Last Glacial Maximum, while the latter shows increasing values from 41 to 28 kyr BP. The low-frequency deuterium excess fluctuations are strongly influenced by obliquity fluctuations, controlling the low- to high-latitude temperature gradients, and show a remarkable similarity with a high-resolution southeast Atlantic sea surface temperature record. A comparison of the temperature profiles (site and source) and temperature gradient (DeltaT(source)-DeltaT(site)) with the non-sea-salt calcium and sodium records suggests a secondary influence of atmospheric transport changes on aerosol variations.
Published: 2003
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129. Ice wedge evidence in the Mesa Range (Northern Victoria Land, Antarctica)

Author: Raffi, R., Barbara Stenni, Flora, O., Polesello, S., and Camusso, M.
Subjects: Ice wedge, ice crystal, stable water isotopes, ion concentration
Published: 2003

130. A new 27 ky high resolution East Antarctic climate record

Author: Jean Jouzel, Jakob Schwander, V. Masson, Barbara Stenni, Antonio Longinelli, S. Falourd, Roland Souchez, Olivier Cattani, S. J. Johnsen, Nartsiss I. Barkov, J. P. Steffenssen, Michel Stievenard, J. R. Petit, 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), Géochrononologie Traceurs Archéométrie (GEOTRAC), Department of Geological, Environmental and Marine Sciences [Trieste], Università degli studi di Trieste, 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 Trieste = University of Trieste, Jouzel, J., Masson, V., Cattani, O., Falourd, S., Stievenard, M., Stenni, Barbara, Longinelli, A., Johnsen, S. J., Steffensen, J. P., Petit, J. R., Schwander, J., Souchez, R., and Barkov, N. I.
Subjects: 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, 530 Physics, 010502 geochemistry & geophysics, deglaciation, 01 natural sciences, Antarctic Cold Reversal, Paleontology, Ice core, Paleoclimatology, paleoclimate, Deglaciation, Glacial period, [SDU.ENVI]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Continental interfaces, environment, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, [SDU.OCEAN]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Ocean, Atmosphere, geography, hydrogen isotopes, ice core, Antarctica, EPICA, geography.geographical_feature_category, European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica, hydrogen isotope, Future sea level, Geophysics, Oceanography, 13. Climate action, Settore GEO/08 - Geochimica e Vulcanologia, General Earth and Planetary Sciences, Ice sheet, Geology
Abstract: International audience; The ice core recently drilled at the Dome Concordia site on the East Antarctic plateau provides a new high resolution isotope record covering part of the last glacial, the last transition and the Holocene. The two step shape of the deglaciation is remarkably similar for all the ice cores now available on the East Antarctic plateau. The first warming trend ends about 14000 years ago and is followed by the well marked Antarctic Cold Reversal (ACR) with a secondary peak common to all records. During the deglaciation, there are more similarities between the near coastal site of Taylor Dome and inland East Antarctica than between Taylor Dome and central Greenland. However, the results for EPICA do appear to confirm the Taylor Dome timescale after about 14 ka, showing cooling into the ACR roughly in phase between Greenland and Antarctica. While the overall deglacial pattem is asynchronous, this suggests that the now classical picture of a temperature seesaw between Antarctica and Greenland may be too simplistic. 1. Introduction Whereas numerous deep-sea, continental and ice core records covering the last deglaciation are now available [e.g. Alley and Clark, 1999], the driving mechanisms of this climatic transition are still not fully understood. Recent studies highlight the central role of the huge unstable Northern Hemisphere ice caps and their interaction with the oceanic thermohaline circulation in the North Atlantic. They also reveal that the Antarctic deglacial warming started before the sharp Greenland warming marking the onset of the B611ing and was interrupted by the so-called Antarctic Cold Reversal [hereafter ACR; Jouzel et al., 1995].
Published: 2001
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131. An Oceanic Cold Reversal During the Last Deglaciation

Author: Sigfus J Johnsen, E. Selmo, Antonio Longinelli, Valerie Masson-Delmotte, Barbara Stenni, Eric Monnin, Regine Röthlisberger, Jean Jouzel, Department of Geological, Environmental and Marine Sciences [Trieste], Università degli studi di Trieste, 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), Niels Bohr Institute [Copenhagen] (NBI), Faculty of Science [Copenhagen], University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (KU)-University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (KU), University of Parma = Università degli studi di Parma [Parme, Italie], Climate and Environmental Physics [Bern] (CEP), Physikalisches Institut [Bern], Universität Bern [Bern]-Universität Bern [Bern], Università degli studi di Trieste = University of Trieste, 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), University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (UCPH)-University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (UCPH), Università degli studi di Parma = University of Parma (UNIPR), Universität Bern [Bern] (UNIBE)-Universität Bern [Bern] (UNIBE), Stenni, Barbara, Masson Delmotte, V., Johnsen, S., Jouzel, J., Longinelli, A., Monnin, E., Röthlisberger, R., and Selmo, E.
Subjects: 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Atmospheric circulation, ice cores, 010502 geochemistry & geophysics, deglaciation, 01 natural sciences, Antarctic Cold Reversal, Dome (geology), Anatrctica, Paleoclimatology, Deglaciation, deuterium exce, Glacial period, [SDU.ENVI]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Continental interfaces, environment, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, [SDU.OCEAN]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Ocean, Atmosphere, Multidisciplinary, European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica, Oxygen and hydrogen isotopes, EPICA, Sea surface temperature, Oceanography, 13. Climate action, Oxygen and hydrogen isotope, deuterium excess, Settore GEO/08 - Geochimica e Vulcanologia, Geology
Abstract: A detailed deuterium excess profile measured along the Dome C EPICA (European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica) core reveals the timing and strength of the sea surface temperature changes at the source regions for Dome C precipitation. We infer that an Oceanic Cold Reversal took place in the southern Indian Ocean, 800 years after the Antarctic Cold Reversal. The temperature gradient between the oceanic moisture source and Antarctica is similar to the Dome C sodium profile during the deglaciation, illustrating the strong link between this gradient and the strength of the atmospheric circulation.
Published: 2001
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132. Snow accumulation rates in northern Victoria Land, Antarctica by firn-core analysis

Author: Valter Maggi, Massimo Frezzotti, Francesca Serra, Barbara Stenni, Silvia Becagli, Roberto Udisti, Rita Traversi, Stenni, B, Serra, F, Frezzotti, M, Maggi, V, Traversi, R, Becagli, S, Udisti, R, Stenni, Barbara, Serra, F., Frezzotti, M., Maggi, V., Traversi, R., Becagli, S., and Udisti, R.
Subjects: Northern Victoria Land, 010506 paleontology, Katabatic wind, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, isotopic records, chemical records, snow accumulation rate, Antarctica, firn cores, 01 natural sciences, Glacier mass balance, Altitude, Ice core, chemical record, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Earth-Surface Processes, isotopic record, Firn, Sampling (statistics), Snow, Settore GEO/08 - Geochimica e Vulcanologia, Period (geology), Physical geography, Geology, Antarctica, ice cores, stable isotopes, climatology
Abstract: A multiparametric (chemical, isotopic and physical) study on three shallow firn cores sampled in northern Victoria Land was carried out to obtain glaciological information and climatic data in this Antarctic region. Sampling areas were accurately prospected to identify sites, located at different altitudes and distances from the sea, where the snow accumulation was not influenced by katabatic wind redistribution or summer melting. Stratigraphic, isotopic (δl8O) and chemical (H2O2, MSA and nssSO42−) profiles were mutually examined for dating purposes and to determine the mean snow-accumulation rates at three different stations. Annual accumulation rates of 85–420 kg m−2 a−1 were determined in the period 1971–92. An inverse pattern between accumulation rate and altitude was shown by the progression of the mean annual rates of 160, 203 and 260 kg m−2 a−1, respectively, in the highest, medium and lowest stations. The mean accumulation value of all northern Victoria Land data available, 170 kg m−2 a−1, represents a decrease of up to 35% with respect to the estimated value most widely used until now. Our accumulation value is very close to that required for a zero net surface mass balance according to ice discharge. A linear relationship with a gradient of 0.81‰ °C−1 has been found between mean δ18O values and mean annual surface temperature for different ice cores drilled in northern Victoria Land.
Published: 2000

133. 200 years of isotope and chemical records in a firn core from Hercules Névé, Northern Victoria Land, Antarctica

Author: Valter Maggi, L. Cimino, Barbara Stenni, S. ToRcini, Carlo Cremisini, Antonio Longinelli, Raffaela Caprioli, O. Flora, R. Gragnani, Stenni, Barbara, Caprioli, R., Cimino, L., Cremisini, C., Flora, Onelio, Gragnani, R., Longinelli, A., Maggi, V., Torcini, S., Stenni, B, Caprioli, R, Cimino, L, Cremisini, C, Flora, O, Gragnani, R, Longinelli, A, Maggi, V, and Torcini, S
Subjects: 010506 paleontology, geography, Antarctica, ice cores, stable isotopes, atmospheric chemistry, geography.geographical_feature_category, Plateau, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, δ18O, Stable isotope ratio, European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica, Firn, 01 natural sciences, Oceanography, Volcano, Ice core, Settore GEO/08 - Geochimica e Vulcanologia, Deposition (chemistry), Geology, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Earth-Surface Processes
Abstract: A 42.2 m firn core was collected at the Hercules Névé plateau (100 km inland and 2960 m a.s.L), northern Victoria Land, during the 1994-95 Italian Antarctic Expedition. Chemical (Cl–, NO3–, SO42–’; δ18O δ18O δ18O; m-2a-1) and isotope (5180) analyses were performed to evaluate the snow-accumulation rate at this site. Tritium measurements were performed in the upper part of the core to narrow down the dating of the core.High nssSO42- concentrations seem to be related to some explosive volcanic eruptions, such as Tambora (AD 1815) and the preceding event called "Unknown" (AD 1809), Coseguina (AD 1835), Makjan (AD 1861), Krakatoa (AD 1883) and Tarawera (AD 1886).A comparison between the seasonal variations observed in the isotope and chemical profiles was carried out in order to reduce the dating uncertainty, using the tritium and the volcanic markers as time constraints. A deposition period of 222 years was determined.The 3 year smoothed «5180 profile shows more negative values from the bottom of the core (dated AD 1770) throughout the 19th century, suggesting "cooler" conditions, in agreement with other East Antarctic ice-core records! Subsequently, a general increase in δ180-values is observed.The calculated average snow-accumulation rates between the above-mentioned time markers are 111-129 kg m-2a-1.
Published: 1999

134. Chemical and isotopic profiles from snow pits and shallow firn cores on Campbell Glacier, northern Victoria Land, Antarctica

Author: Barbara Stenni, R. Gragnani, S. ToRcini, Claudio Smiraglia, Gragnani, R., Smiraglia, C., Stenni, Barbara, and Torcini, S.
Subjects: geography, stable isotopes, firn cores, chemical profiles, Antarctica, snow accumulation rate, geography.geographical_feature_category, chemical profile, Firn, Glacier, Snow, Oceanography, Settore GEO/08 - Geochimica e Vulcanologia, stable isotope, firn core, Geology, Earth-Surface Processes
Abstract: The chemical (Na+, K+, Mg2+, Ca2+, CH3SO3 − (MSA), Cl− , NO3 − , SO4 2-) and isotopic (δl8O) composition of snow and firn samples from Campbell Glacier, northern Victoria Land, Antarctica, was studied to evaluate the accumulation rate of snow and to investigate the chemical contribution from some emission sources (marine biogenic activity, sea and crust). During the 1994-95 Italian Antarctic Expedition, snow and firn were collected from snow pits and from cores obtained from drilling at three sites (A: 74°41'S, 164°30' E; B: 74°15' S, 164° '04' E; C: 73°45' S, 163°20' E), located ai 50 m (on the floating glacier tongue), 800 m and 1580 m a.s.l., respectively. The mean concentration of sea salt decreased with increasing distance from the coast and with altitude. Generally, the Na+/K+ and Na+/Ca2+ ratios were much lower than the bulk sea-water ratios at sites B and C. The MSA showed mean concentrations (0.27 and 0.17 ¿teq 1 at sites B and C, respectively) consistent with data obtained from other Antarctic sites. The mean concentrations of NO3 ranged from 2.1 μeq 1−1 (site A) to 0.97 μeq1 1 (site C).The mean nss (non-sea-salt) SO4 2-/SO4 2- ratio was -0.055,0.54 and 0.42 at sites A, B and C, respectively. Moreover, the relationship between a2+, nssCa2+, SO4 2- and nssSO4 was quite different at sites B and C. in order to expla in the relationships between the elements and compounds studied at these sites, chemical fractionation and/or reactions inside air masses and différent origin of the air masses at the two sites should be considered. A comparison of the isotopic and chemical profiles was carried out in order to provide a more reliable chronological scale. The chemical and δ18O seasonal variations recorded along the firn cores from the upper site of Campbell Glacier seem to be fairly homogeneous. This made it possible to identify many annual cycles (14-18 years for the 7 m firn core). Using the measured density values, the accumulation rale was also calculated for lower and upper Campbell Glacier. It did not appear to differ between the two sites (150-170 kg m −2a−1 at site B and 140-180 kg m−2a−1at site C) and is in keeping with rates calculated previously for the same area.
Published: 1998

135. Oxygen isotope variations of phosphate in mammalian bone and tooth enamel

Author: Barbara Stenni, Begoña Sánchez Chillón, Antonio Longinelli, Paola Iacumin, Antonio Delgado Huertas, Delgado Huertas, A., Iacumin, P., Stenni, Barbara, Sanchez Chillon, B., and Longinelli, A.
Subjects: bone phospahte, oxygen isotopes, chemistry.chemical_element, Mineralogy, Fossil bone, Phosphate, Tooth enamel, Oxygen, Isotopes of oxygen, Isotopic composition, chemistry.chemical_compound, tooth enamel, medicine.anatomical_structure, chemistry, Geochemistry and Petrology, Settore GEO/08 - Geochimica e Vulcanologia, mammalian, medicine, Meteoric water, mammalians, oxygen isotope, Relative humidity
Abstract: About eighty specimens from ten different species of mammals, collected from different areas under different climatic and environmental conditions, were measured for the oxygen isotopic composition of their bone and tooth phosphate. The equations relating these values to the mean oxygen isotopic composition of local meteoric water were also derived. The same equation can be used for goats, roe-bucks, and mouflons, despite the biological differences among these species. Measurements were made on about fourty different specimens of rabbit and hare from Europe, Africa, and Canada, but in this case the data obtained clearly show no direct relationship between the oxygen isotopic composition of local meteoric water and the isotopic composition of the skeletal phosphate. However, there seems to be an inverse relationship between the relative humidity of the studied areas and the δ 18O(PO43−) of the skeletal phosphate, thus suggesting the use of fossil bones of these mammal species as recorders of palaeoenvironmental relative humidity. Finally, a new equation was derived for the isotopic scale for horses, on the basis of all the previous data and of a few newly obtained results.
Published: 1995

136. Oxygen isotopic composition of fossil equid tooth and bone phosphate: an archive of difficult interpretation

Author: Antonio Longinelli, Begoña Sánchez Chillón, Barbara Stenni, Francesco Bonadonna, María Teresa Alberdi, Gabriello Leone, Sanchez Chillon, B., Alberdi, M. T., Leone, G., Bonadonna, F. P., Stenni, Barbara, and Longinelli, A.
Subjects: Taphonomy, fossil equid, biology, Pleistocene, ved/biology, δ18O, oxygen isotopes, Villafranchian, ved/biology.organism_classification_rank.species, Paleontology, Oceanography, biology.organism_classification, Equus, Isotopes of oxygen, Diagenesis, Equus stenonis, stomatognathic system, Settore GEO/08 - Geochimica e Vulcanologia, bone phosphate, oxygen isotope, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Geology, Earth-Surface Processes
Abstract: Variation in the concentration of the stable isotopes of hydrogen, oxygen and carbon have been tested in continental records as tools for quantitative or semi-quantitative paleoclimatological studies. Among the different methods, the potential use of oxygen isotopes in mammal bone and tooth phosphate has recently been recognized. Measurements carried out on fossil mammal bones of Holocene age and their paleoclimatological interpretation corresponded well with paleontological and paleobotanical records. In the case of considerably older fossils, diagenetic processes may change the primary oxygen isotopic composition of phosphate. Fossil horse bones and teeth (principally of the species Equus stenonis) were studied to ascertain how far back in time fossil mammal remains may be considered reliable material for paleoclimatological studies. The samples come from 13 different locations in southeastern Spain, their age ranging from Maspinian (late Pleistocene) to Middle Villafranchian (Pliocene). Apart from the variations of the δ18O(PO43−) values which may be related to climatic changes, it is apparent that the isotopic composition of bones and teeth from the same deposit are frequently rather different from one another. The isotopic differences range from a few tenths of one % to several %. This suggests a strong influence of taphonomy over the measured isotopic values of fossils in each deposit. Time can be considered neither the only variable nor the most important one responsible for the change of the primary isotopic composition of fossils. Under these conditions it is rather difficult to establish lower or upper limits for the age of fossils to be studied for reliable paleoclimatological information since the limits are directly related to taphonomic history. This, in turn, is related to local environmental conditions and not only to the age of fossils.
Published: 1994

137. Holocene climate variability at high-southern latitudes: An integrated perspective (HOLOCLIP)

Author: C. Escutia Dotti, H. Goosse, Hans Renssen, H. Oerter, Xavier Crosta, Barbara Stenni, Robert B. Dunbar, Jennifer Pike, and Climate Change and Landscape Dynamics
Subjects: Geography, Climatology, Perspective (graphical), Holocene, Latitude
Published: 2011
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138. Eight centuries of volcanic signal and climate change at Talos Dome (East Antarctica)

Author: Marco Proposito, Barbara Stenni, Jean Jouzel, S. Falourd, R. Gragnani, O. Flora, and Massimo Frezzotti
Subjects: Atmospheric Science, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Dome, Soil Science, Climate change, Aquatic Science, 010502 geochemistry & geophysics, Oceanography, 01 natural sciences, Ice core, Geochemistry and Petrology, Paleoclimatology, Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous), medicine, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Earth-Surface Processes, Water Science and Technology, geography, geography.geographical_feature_category, Vulcanian eruption, Ecology, Firn, Paleontology, Forestry, Seasonality, medicine.disease, Geophysics, Volcano, 13. Climate action, Space and Planetary Science, Climatology, Geology
Abstract: [1] During the 1996 Programma Nazionale di Ricerche in Antartide-International Trans-Antarctic Scientific Expedition traverse, two firn cores were retrieved from the Talos Dome area (East Antarctica) at elevations of 2316 m (TD, 89 m long) and 2246 m (ST556, 19 m long). Cores were dated by using seasonal variations in non-sea-salt (nss) SO42− concentrations coupled with the recognition of tritium marker level (1965–1966) and nss SO42− spikes due to the most important volcanic events in the past (Pinatubo 1991, Agung 1963, Krakatoa 1883, Tambora 1815, Kuwae 1452, Unknown 1259). The number of annual layers recognized in the TD and ST556 cores was 779 and 97, respectively. The δD record obtained from the TD core has been compared with other East Antarctic isotope ice core records (Dome C EPICA, South Pole, Taylor Dome). These records suggest cooler climate conditions between the middle of 16th and the beginning of 19th centuries, which might be related to the Little Ice Age (LIA) cold period. Because of the high degree of geographical variability, the strongest LIA cooling was not temporally synchronous over East Antarctica, and the analyzed records do not provide a coherent picture for East Antarctica. The accumulation rate record presented for the TD core shows a decrease during part of the LIA followed by an increment of about 11% in accumulation during the 20th century. At the ST556 site, the accumulation rate observed during the 20th century was quite stable.
Published: 2002
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139. Climate dependent contrast in surface mass balance in East Antarctica over the past 216 ka

Author: Valérie Masson-Delmotte, Ayako Abe-Ouchi, Fuyuki Saito, Frédéric Parrenin, Mirko Severi, Shuji Fujita, Ryu Uemura, Kenji Kawamura, Barbara Stenni, Eric W. Wolff, Hideaki Motoyama, Institut des Géosciences de l’Environnement (IGE), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Grenoble Alpes [2016-2019] (UGA [2016-2019]), National Institute of Polar Research [Tokyo] (NiPR), Center for Climate System Research [Kashiwa] (CCSR), The University of Tokyo (UTokyo), 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), Research Organization of Information and Systems, Department of Chemistry, Dipartimento di Scienze Geologiche [Trieste], Università degli studi di Trieste, British Antarctic Survey (BAS), Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), 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]), 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 Trieste = University of Trieste, Wolff, Eric [0000-0002-5914-8531], and Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Subjects: 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, surface mass balance, sub-01, ice cores, 010502 geochemistry & geophysics, Atmospheric sciences, 01 natural sciences, vertical thinning, volcanic synchronization, Glacier mass balance, Ice core, Earth-Surface Processes, Sea ice, Cryosphere, Glacial period, [SDU.STU.GL]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Glaciology, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, geography, geography.geographical_feature_category, Stable isotope ratio, 13. Climate action, [SDU.STU.CL]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Climatology, Settore GEO/08 - Geochimica e Vulcanologia, Climatology, Interglacial, Ice sheet, Geology
Abstract: Documenting past changes in the East Antarctic surface mass balance is important to improve ice core chronologies and to constrain the ice-sheet contribution to global mean sea-level change. Here we reconstruct past changes in the ratio of surface mass balance (SMB ratio) between the EPICA Dome C (EDC) and Dome Fuji (DF) East Antarctica ice core sites, based on a precise volcanic synchronization of the two ice cores and on corrections for the vertical thinning of layers. During the past 216 000 a, this SMB ratio, denoted SMBEDC/SMBDF, varied between 0.7 and 1.1, being small during cold periods and large during warm periods. Our results therefore reveal larger amplitudes of changes in SMB at EDC compared with DF, consistent with previous results showing larger amplitudes of changes in water stable isotopes and estimated surface temperature at EDC compared with DF. Within the last glacial inception (Marine Isotope Stages, MIS-5c and MIS-5d), the SMB ratio deviates by up to 0.2 from what is expected based on differences in water stable isotope records. Moreover, the SMB ratio is constant throughout the late parts of the current and last interglacial periods, despite contrasting isotopic trends.
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140. Chemical and isotopic signals in surface snow from the ITASE TNB-DC traverse

Author: Barbara Stenni, Genoni, L., Flora, O., Udisti, R., Becagli, S., Largiuni, O., Frezzotti, M., Massimo Frezzotti, Valter Maggi, Stenni, Barbara, Genoni, L., Flora, R., Udisti, R., Becagli, S., Largiuni, O., and Frezzotti, M.
Subjects: snow pits, Settore GEO/08 - Geochimica e Vulcanologia, chemical profile, ITASE, Antarctica, chemical profiles, Stable isotopes, snow pit, Stable isotope

141. 70 years of northern Victoria Land (Antarctica) accumulation rate

Author: Valter Maggi, O. Flora, Giuseppe Orombelli, Barbara Stenni, Roberto Udisti, Rita Traversi, S. Vermigli, Silvia Becagli, Jean-Robert Petit, Maggi, V., Orombelli, G., Stenni, Barbara, Flora, Onelio, Udisti, R., Becagli, S., Traversi, R., Vermigli, S., Petit, J. R., Maggi, V, Orombelli, G, Stenni, B, Flora, O, Udisti, R, Becagli, S, Traversi, R, Vermigli, S, and Petit, J
Subjects: Antarctica, ice cores, accumulation rate, 010506 paleontology, Ice cap climate, Oceanography, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Ice core, Settore GEO/08 - Geochimica e Vulcanologia, Future sea level, 01 natural sciences, Geology, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Earth-Surface Processes
Abstract: Measurements of oxygen isotope ratio , major anions and cations, insoluble dust and tritium were performed every 4-6 cm along the Hercules Névé (northern Victoria Land, Antarctica) 22 m firn core. Concentration/depth profiles for H2O2, methane sulphonic acid and non-sea-salt sulphate (nssSO4 2-) were used to obtain a dating for the core by a multiparametric method involving a normalisation procedure and a linear combination of original profiles. This dating was compared with the and dust records to obtain a reliable identification of successive annual snow layers. The time-scale obtained from the seasonally varying signals was confirmed by an absolute date obtained from the 1965 thermonuclear atmospheric bomb test tritium peak. Around 70 years (1926-94) of annual accumulation rate data were obtained from the core. variations recorded along the core may be ascribed to seasonal variations of this parameter related to temperature variations.

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