Articles | Volume 15, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-15-751-2019
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-15-751-2019
Research article
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10 Apr 2019
Research article |  | 10 Apr 2019

A 2700-year annual timescale and accumulation history for an ice core from Roosevelt Island, West Antarctica

Mai Winstrup, Paul Vallelonga, Helle A. Kjær, Tyler J. Fudge, James E. Lee, Marie H. Riis, Ross Edwards, Nancy A. N. Bertler, Thomas Blunier, Ed J. Brook, Christo Buizert, Gabriela Ciobanu, Howard Conway, Dorthe Dahl-Jensen, Aja Ellis, B. Daniel Emanuelsson, Richard C. A. Hindmarsh, Elizabeth D. Keller, Andrei V. Kurbatov, Paul A. Mayewski, Peter D. Neff, Rebecca L. Pyne, Marius F. Simonsen, Anders Svensson, Andrea Tuohy, Edwin D. Waddington, and Sarah Wheatley

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ED: Reconsider after major revisions (13 Jun 2018) by Marit-Solveig Seidenkrantz
AR by Mai Winstrup on behalf of the Authors (30 Sep 2018)  Author's response   Manuscript 
ED: Reconsider after major revisions (05 Oct 2018) by Marit-Solveig Seidenkrantz
AR by Paul Vallelonga on behalf of the Authors (06 Oct 2018)  Author's response   Manuscript 
ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (08 Oct 2018) by Marit-Solveig Seidenkrantz
RR by Anonymous Referee #3 (01 Nov 2018)
RR by Anonymous Referee #4 (13 Nov 2018)
ED: Reconsider after major revisions (13 Nov 2018) by Marit-Solveig Seidenkrantz
AR by Mai Winstrup on behalf of the Authors (15 Feb 2019)  Author's response   Manuscript 
ED: Publish as is (20 Feb 2019) by Marit-Solveig Seidenkrantz
AR by Mai Winstrup on behalf of the Authors (16 Mar 2019)
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We present a 2700-year timescale and snow accumulation history for an ice core from Roosevelt Island, Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica. We observe a long-term slightly decreasing trend in accumulation during most of the period but a rapid decline since the mid-1960s. The latter is linked to a recent strengthening of the Amundsen Sea Low and the expansion of regional sea ice. The year 1965 CE may thus mark the onset of significant increases in sea-ice extent in the eastern Ross Sea.