Articles | Volume 13, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-13-395-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-13-395-2017
Research article
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20 Apr 2017
Research article |  | 20 Apr 2017

Aromatic acids in a Eurasian Arctic ice core: a 2600-year proxy record of biomass burning

Mackenzie M. Grieman, Murat Aydin, Diedrich Fritzsche, Joseph R. McConnell, Thomas Opel, Michael Sigl, and Eric S. Saltzman

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Wildfires impact ecosystems, climate, and atmospheric chemistry. Records that predate instrumental records and industrialization are needed to study the climatic controls on biomass burning. In this study, we analyzed organic chemicals produced from burning of plant matter that were preserved in an ice core from the Eurasian Arctic. These chemicals are elevated during three periods that have similar timing to climate variability. This is the first millennial-scale record of these chemicals.