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Research article
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08 Oct 2019
Research article |
| 08 Oct 2019
| 08 Oct 2019
The SP19 chronology for the South Pole Ice Core – Part 1: volcanic matching and annual layer counting
Dominic A. Winski
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
School of Earth and Climate Sciences, University of Maine, Orono, Maine, USA
Climate Change Institute, University of Maine, Orono, Maine, USA
Tyler J. Fudge
Department of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
David G. Ferris
Department of Earth Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA
Erich C. Osterberg
Department of Earth Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA
John M. Fegyveresi
School of Earth and Sustainability, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, USA
Jihong Cole-Dai
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, South Dakota State University, Brookings, South Dakota, USA
Zayta Thundercloud
Department of Earth Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA
Thomas S. Cox
Physical Science Department, Butte College, Oroville, California, USA
Karl J. Kreutz
School of Earth and Climate Sciences, University of Maine, Orono, Maine, USA
Climate Change Institute, University of Maine, Orono, Maine, USA
Nikolas Ortman
Department of Earth Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA
Christo Buizert
College of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, USA
Jenna Epifanio
College of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, USA
Edward J. Brook
College of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, USA
Ross Beaudette
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA
Jeffrey Severinghaus
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA
Todd Sowers
Department of Geosciences and Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA
Eric J. Steig
Department of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
Emma C. Kahle
Department of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
Tyler R. Jones
Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA
Valerie Morris
Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA
Murat Aydin
Department of Earth System Science, UC Irvine, Irvine, California, USA
Melinda R. Nicewonger
Department of Earth System Science, UC Irvine, Irvine, California, USA
Kimberly A. Casey
Earth Sciences Division, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA
National Land Imaging Program, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, Virginia, USA
Richard B. Alley
Department of Geosciences and Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA
Edwin D. Waddington
Department of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
Nels A. Iverson
New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources, Socorro, New Mexico, USA
Nelia W. Dunbar
New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources, Socorro, New Mexico, USA
Ryan C. Bay
Physics Department, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA
Joseph M. Souney
Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans and Space, University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire, USA
Michael Sigl
Department of Climate and Environmental Physics, University of Bern, Switzerland
Joseph R. McConnell
Division of Hydrologic Sciences, Desert Research Institute, Reno, Nevada, USA
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Short summary
A deep ice core was recently drilled at the South Pole to understand past variations in the Earth's climate. To understand the information contained within the ice, we present the relationship between the depth and age of the ice in the South Pole Ice Core. We found that the oldest ice in our record is from 54 302 ± 519 years ago. Our results show that, on average, 7.4 cm of snow falls at the South Pole each year.
A deep ice core was recently drilled at the South Pole to understand past variations in the...
