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Articles | Volume 13, issue 3
Articles | Volume 13, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-13-217-2017
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https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-13-217-2017
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Articles | Volume 13, issue 3
Research article
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10 Mar 2017
Research article |  | 10 Mar 2017

An improved north–south synchronization of ice core records around the 41 kyr 10Be peak

Grant M. Raisbeck, Alexandre Cauquoin, Jean Jouzel, Amaelle Landais, Jean-Robert Petit, Vladimir Y. Lipenkov, Juerg Beer, Hans-Arno Synal, Hans Oerter, Sigfus J. Johnsen, Jorgen P. Steffensen, Anders Svensson, and Françoise Yiou

Abstract. Using new high-resolution 10Be measurements in the NGRIP, EDML and Vostok ice cores, together with previously published data from EDC, we present an improved synchronization between Greenland and Antarctic ice cores during the Laschamp geomagnetic excursion  ∼  41 kyr ago. We estimate the precision of this synchronization to be ±20 years, an order of magnitude better than previous work. We discuss the implications of this new synchronization for making improved estimates of the depth difference between ice and enclosed gas of the same age (Δdepth), difference between age of ice and enclosed gas at the same depth (Δage) in the EDC and EDML ice cores, spectral properties of the 10Be profiles and phasing between Dansgaard–Oeschger-10 (in NGRIP) and AIM-10 (in EDML and EDC).

How to cite. Raisbeck, G. M., Cauquoin, A., Jouzel, J., Landais, A., Petit, J.-R., Lipenkov, V. Y., Beer, J., Synal, H.-A., Oerter, H., Johnsen, S. J., Steffensen, J. P., Svensson, A., and Yiou, F.: An improved north–south synchronization of ice core records around the 41 kyr 10Be peak, Clim. Past, 13, 217–229, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-13-217-2017, 2017.
Received: 10 Jul 2016 – Discussion started: 28 Jul 2016 – Revised: 17 Dec 2016 – Accepted: 05 Feb 2017 – Published: 10 Mar 2017
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Using records of a long-lived radioactive nuclide (10Be) that is formed globally in the atmosphere and deposited within a few years to the earth’s surface, we have synchronized three Antarctic ice cores to one from Greenland. This permits the climate and other environmental parameters registered in these ice cores to be put on a common timescale with a precision of a few decades, thus allowing different models and mechanisms associated with these parameters to be tested with the same precision.
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