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21 Jun 2021
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| 21 Jun 2021
| 21 Jun 2021
Variations in mineralogy of dust in an ice core obtained from northwestern Greenland over the past 100 years
Naoko Nagatsuka
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
National Institute of Polar Research, Tokyo 190-8518, Japan
Kumiko Goto-Azuma
National Institute of Polar Research, Tokyo 190-8518, Japan
Department of Polar Science, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, SOKENDAI, Tokyo 190-8518, Japan
Akane Tsushima
Graduate School of Science, Chiba University, Chiba 277-0882, Japan
Koji Fujita
Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8601, Japan
Sumito Matoba
Institute of Low Temperature Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0819, Japan
Yukihiko Onuma
Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa 277-8574, Japan
Remi Dallmayr
Alfred Wegener Institute, Am Alten Hafen 26, 27568 Bremerhaven, Germany
Moe Kadota
Institute of Low Temperature Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0819, Japan
Graduate School of Environmental Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0810, Japan
Motohiro Hirabayashi
National Institute of Polar Research, Tokyo 190-8518, Japan
Jun Ogata
National Institute of Polar Research, Tokyo 190-8518, Japan
Yoshimi Ogawa-Tsukagawa
National Institute of Polar Research, Tokyo 190-8518, Japan
Kyotaro Kitamura
National Institute of Polar Research, Tokyo 190-8518, Japan
Masahiro Minowa
Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8601, Japan
Yuki Komuro
National Institute of Polar Research, Tokyo 190-8518, Japan
Hideaki Motoyama
National Institute of Polar Research, Tokyo 190-8518, Japan
Department of Polar Science, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, SOKENDAI, Tokyo 190-8518, Japan
Teruo Aoki
National Institute of Polar Research, Tokyo 190-8518, Japan
Department of Polar Science, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, SOKENDAI, Tokyo 190-8518, Japan
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We present O2/N2 and Ar/N2 records from the Dome Fuji ice core through the bubbly ice, bubble–clathrate transition, and clathrate ice zones without gas-loss fractionation. The insolation signal is preserved through the clathrate formation. The relationship between Ar/Ν2 and Ο2/Ν2 suggests that the fractionation for the bubble–clathrate transition is mass independent, while the bubble close-off process involves a combination of mass-independent and mass-dependent fractionation for O2 and Ar.
Ikumi Oyabu, Kenji Kawamura, Kyotaro Kitamura, Remi Dallmayr, Akihiro Kitamura, Chikako Sawada, Jeffrey P. Severinghaus, Ross Beaudette, Anaïs Orsi, Satoshi Sugawara, Shigeyuki Ishidoya, Dorthe Dahl-Jensen, Kumiko Goto-Azuma, Shuji Aoki, and Takakiyo Nakazawa
Atmos. Meas. Tech., 13, 6703–6731, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-6703-2020, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-6703-2020, 2020
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Air in polar ice cores provides information on past atmosphere and climate. We present a new method for simultaneously measuring eight gases (CH4, N2O and CO2 concentrations; isotopic ratios of N2 and O2; elemental ratios between N2, O2 and Ar; and total air content) from single ice-core samples with high precision.
Pavel Talalay, Yazhou Li, Laurent Augustin, Gary D. Clow, Jialin Hong, Eric Lefebvre, Alexey Markov, Hideaki Motoyama, and Catherine Ritz
The Cryosphere, 14, 4021–4037, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-4021-2020, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-4021-2020, 2020
Xavier Fettweis, Stefan Hofer, Uta Krebs-Kanzow, Charles Amory, Teruo Aoki, Constantijn J. Berends, Andreas Born, Jason E. Box, Alison Delhasse, Koji Fujita, Paul Gierz, Heiko Goelzer, Edward Hanna, Akihiro Hashimoto, Philippe Huybrechts, Marie-Luise Kapsch, Michalea D. King, Christoph Kittel, Charlotte Lang, Peter L. Langen, Jan T. M. Lenaerts, Glen E. Liston, Gerrit Lohmann, Sebastian H. Mernild, Uwe Mikolajewicz, Kameswarrao Modali, Ruth H. Mottram, Masashi Niwano, Brice Noël, Jonathan C. Ryan, Amy Smith, Jan Streffing, Marco Tedesco, Willem Jan van de Berg, Michiel van den Broeke, Roderik S. W. van de Wal, Leo van Kampenhout, David Wilton, Bert Wouters, Florian Ziemen, and Tobias Zolles
The Cryosphere, 14, 3935–3958, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3935-2020, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3935-2020, 2020
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We evaluated simulated Greenland Ice Sheet surface mass balance from 5 kinds of models. While the most complex (but expensive to compute) models remain the best, the faster/simpler models also compare reliably with observations and have biases of the same order as the regional models. Discrepancies in the trend over 2000–2012, however, suggest that large uncertainties remain in the modelled future SMB changes as they are highly impacted by the meltwater runoff biases over the current climate.
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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).
Here we present a first high-temporal-resolution record of mineral composition in a Greenland...
