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10 Oct 2022
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Canadian forest fires, Icelandic volcanoes and increased local dust observed in six shallow Greenland firn cores
Physics for Ice, Climate and Earth Sciences (PICE), Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen 2100, Denmark
Patrick Zens
Physics for Ice, Climate and Earth Sciences (PICE), Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen 2100, Denmark
Samuel Black
Physics for Ice, Climate and Earth Sciences (PICE), Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen 2100, Denmark
NatureScot, Inverness, IV3 8NW, United Kingdom
Kasper Holst Lund
Physics for Ice, Climate and Earth Sciences (PICE), Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen 2100, Denmark
Anders Svensson
Physics for Ice, Climate and Earth Sciences (PICE), Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen 2100, Denmark
Paul Vallelonga
Physics for Ice, Climate and Earth Sciences (PICE), Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen 2100, Denmark
UWA Oceans Institute, University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA, Australia
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Short summary
Six shallow cores from northern Greenland spanning a distance of 426 km were retrieved during a traversal in 2015. We identify several recent acid horizons associated with Icelandic eruptions and eruptions in the Barents Sea region and obtain a robust forest fire proxy associated primarily with Canadian forest fires. We also observe an increase in the large dust particle fluxes that we attribute to an activation of Greenland local sources in recent years (1998–2015).
Six shallow cores from northern Greenland spanning a distance of 426 km were retrieved during a...
