Articles | Volume 17, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-17-1341-2021
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-17-1341-2021
Research article
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21 Jun 2021
Research article |  | 21 Jun 2021

Variations in mineralogy of dust in an ice core obtained from northwestern Greenland over the past 100 years

Naoko Nagatsuka, Kumiko Goto-Azuma, Akane Tsushima, Koji Fujita, Sumito Matoba, Yukihiko Onuma, Remi Dallmayr, Moe Kadota, Motohiro Hirabayashi, Jun Ogata, Yoshimi Ogawa-Tsukagawa, Kyotaro Kitamura, Masahiro Minowa, Yuki Komuro, Hideaki Motoyama, and Teruo Aoki

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ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (05 Mar 2021) by Elizabeth Thomas
AR by Naoko Nagatsuka on behalf of the Authors (25 Mar 2021)  Author's response    Manuscript
ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (14 Apr 2021) by Elizabeth Thomas
AR by Naoko Nagatsuka on behalf of the Authors (15 Apr 2021)  Author's response    Manuscript

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AA by Naoko Nagatsuka on behalf of the Authors (26 May 2021)   Author's adjustment   Manuscript
EA: Adjustments approved (27 May 2021) by Elizabeth Thomas
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Short summary
Here we present a first high-temporal-resolution record of mineral composition in a Greenland ice core (SIGMA-D) over the past 100 years using SEM–EDS analysis. Our results show that the ice core dust composition varied on multi-decadal scales, which was likely affected by local temperature changes. We suggest that the ice core dust was constantly supplied from distant sources (mainly northern Canada) as well as local ice-free areas in warm periods (1915 to 1949 and 2005 to 2013).