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https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-12-1979-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-12-1979-2016
Research article
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14 Oct 2016
Research article |  | 14 Oct 2016

Climatic and insolation control on the high-resolution total air content in the NGRIP ice core

Olivier Eicher, Matthias Baumgartner, Adrian Schilt, Jochen Schmitt, Jakob Schwander, Thomas F. Stocker, and Hubertus Fischer

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A new high-resolution total air content record over the NGRIP ice core, spanning 0.3–120 kyr is presented. In agreement with Antarctic ice cores, we find a strong local insolation signature but also 3–5 % decreases in total air content as a local response to Dansgaard–Oeschger events, which can only partly be explained by changes in surface pressure and temperature. Accordingly, a dynamic response of firnification to rapid climate changes on the Greenland ice sheet must have occurred.