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<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">CPD</journal-id>
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<journal-title>Climate of the Past Discussions</journal-title>
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<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="nlm-ta">Clim. Past Discuss.</abbrev-journal-title>
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<issn pub-type="epub">1814-9359</issn>
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<publisher-loc>Göttingen, Germany</publisher-loc>
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<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.5194/cp-2020-132</article-id>
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<article-title>Comparison of Holocene temperature reconstructions based on GISP2 multiple-gas-isotope measurements</article-title>
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<contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Döring</surname>
<given-names>Michael</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5575-0747</ext-link>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Leuenberger</surname>
<given-names>Markus Christian</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4299-6793</ext-link>
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<addr-line>Climate and Environmental Physics, University of Bern, Switzerland</addr-line>
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<addr-line>Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research (OCCR), Bern, Switzerland</addr-line>
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<award-id>icoCEP project 172550</award-id>
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<funding-source></funding-source>
<award-id>159563</award-id>
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<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>07</day>
<month>10</month>
<year>2020</year>
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<volume>2020</volume>
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<lpage>26</lpage>
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<copyright-statement>Copyright: &#x000a9; 2020 Michael Döring</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2020</copyright-year>
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<license-p>This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this licence, visit <ext-link ext-link-type="uri"  xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</ext-link></license-p>
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<p>&lt;p&gt;Nitrogen and argon stable-isotope data extracted from ancient air in ice cores provides the possibility to reconstruct Greenland past temperatures when inverting firn-densification and heat-diffusion models (firn-models) to fit the gas-isotope data (δ&lt;sup&gt;15&lt;/sup&gt;N, δ&lt;sup&gt;40&lt;/sup&gt;Ar, δ&lt;sup&gt;15&lt;/sup&gt;N&lt;sub&gt;excess&lt;/sub&gt;). This study uses the Döring and Leuenberger (2018) fitting-algorithm coupled on two state of the art firn-models to fit multiple Holocene gas-isotope data measured on the GISP2 ice core. We present for the first time the resulting temperature estimates when fitting δ&lt;sup&gt;15&lt;/sup&gt;N, δ&lt;sup&gt;40&lt;/sup&gt;Ar and δ&lt;sup&gt;15&lt;/sup&gt;N&lt;sub&gt;excess&lt;/sub&gt; as single targets with misfits generally in the low permeg level. Whereas the comparison between the reconstructions using δ&lt;sup&gt;15&lt;/sup&gt;N and δ&lt;sup&gt;40&lt;/sup&gt;Ar shows a high agreement, the use of δ&lt;sup&gt;15&lt;/sup&gt;N&lt;sub&gt;excess&lt;/sub&gt; for reconstructing temperature is problematic, due to higher statistical and systematic data uncertainty influencing especially multi-decadal to multi-centennial signals, and results in an unrealistic temperature estimate that differs significantly from the two other reconstructions. We find evidence for systematic too high δ&lt;sup&gt;40&lt;/sup&gt;Ar data in the early- and late-Holocene potentially caused by post coring gas-loss or an insufficient correction of this mechanism. Next, we compare the performance of the Goujon et al. (2003) firn-model and the Schwander et al. (1997) firn-model for Holocene temperature reconstructions. Besides small differences of the reconstructed temperature anomalies – potentially caused by slightly different implementation of firn physics and parameters in the two models – the reconstructed temperature anomalies are highly comparable. We were able to quantify the contribution of the firn-model difference to the uncertainty budget of our reconstruction. Furthermore, the fractions of uncertainty on the reconstructed temperatures, arising from the non-perfect reproducibility of the fitting algorithm and from the remaining final misfits (low permeg level), were quantified. Together with the published measurement uncertainty of the gas-isotope data and the analysis of the impact of accumulation-rate uncertainty on the reconstruction, we were able to calculate the mean uncertainty (2σ) for the nitrogen and the argon based temperature estimates with 2σ&lt;sub&gt;T&lt;/sub&gt;&amp;thinsp;=&amp;thinsp;0.80 ... 0.88&amp;thinsp;K for T(δ&lt;sup&gt;15&lt;/sup&gt;N), and 2σ&lt;sub&gt;T&lt;/sub&gt;&amp;thinsp;=&amp;thinsp;0.87 ... 1.81&amp;thinsp;K for T(δ&lt;sup&gt;40&lt;/sup&gt;Ar), respectively. Finally, we compare our reconstructed temperatures to two recent reconstructions based on the same gas-isotope data as used here, but following different reconstruction strategies: first the study of Buizert et al. (2018), which uses a combination of δ&lt;sup&gt;18&lt;/sup&gt;O&lt;sub&gt;ice&lt;/sub&gt;-calibration and δ&lt;sup&gt;15&lt;/sup&gt;N-fitting, and second the study of Kobashi et al. (2017), where δ&lt;sup&gt;15&lt;/sup&gt;N&lt;sub&gt;excess&lt;/sub&gt; was fitted in order to conduct the temperature reconstruction. We find generally higher agreement between our T(δ&lt;sup&gt;15&lt;/sup&gt;N) estimate and the Buizert et al. (2018) temperature – in terms of variability and correlation in three investigated periodic-time bands (multi-decadal, multi-centennial and multi-millennial) – as if our T(δ&lt;sup&gt;15&lt;/sup&gt;N) reconstruction is compared to the Kobashi et al. (2017) temperature. However, all three reconstruction strategies lead to distinct temperature realizations.&lt;/p&gt;</p>
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