Burning-derived vanillic acid in an Arctic ice core from Tunu, northeastern Greenland

Grieman, Mackenzie M.; Aydin, Murat; McConnell, Joseph R.; Saltzman, Eric S.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-14-1625-2018

Articles | Volume 14, issue 11

https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-14-1625-2018

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https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-14-1625-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 14, issue 11

Research article

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05 Nov 2018

Research article |

| 05 Nov 2018

Burning-derived vanillic acid in an Arctic ice core from Tunu, northeastern Greenland

Mackenzie M. Grieman, Murat Aydin, Joseph R. McConnell, and Eric S. Saltzman

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-14-1625-2018-supplement

Data sets

Vanillic acid concentrations from ice cores, Tunu, Northeastern Greenland, 268-2013 M. M. Grieman and E. S. Saltzman https://doi.org/10.18739/A2G73735Q

Tunu, Greenland 2013 ice core chemistry, NSF Arctic Data Center J. R. McConnell https://doi.org/10.18739/A2ZQ1G

2000 Year Hemispheric and Global Temperature Recons M. E. Mann, Z. Zhang, M. K. Hughes, R. S. Bradley, S. K. Miller, S. Rutherford, and F. Ni https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/study/6252

1200 Year Atlantic Multidecadal Variability and Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation Reconstructions J. L. Wang, B. Yang, F. C. Ljungqvist, J. Luterbacher, T. J. Osborn, K. R. Briffa, and E. Zorita https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo-search/study/22031

Continental-scale temperature variability during the past two millennia Pages2k https://doi.org/10.1038/NGEO1797

Short summary

Vanillic acid is reported in the Tunu ice core from northeastern Greenland. It is an aerosol-borne acid produced by biomass burning. North American boreal forests are likely the source regions of the vanillic acid deposited at the ice core site. Vanillic acid levels were elevated during warm climate periods and lower during cooler climate periods. There is a positive correlation between the vanillic acid ice core record and ammonium and black carbon in the NEEM ice core from northern Greenland.