Münch, Thomas; Kipfstuhl, Sepp; Freitag, Johannes; Meyer, Hanno; Laepple, Thomas (2016): Oxygen isotopes from two snow trenches from Kohnen Station, Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica from the 2012/13 field season [dataset publication series]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.861675, Supplement to: Münch, T et al. (2016): Regional climate signal vs. local noise: a two-dimensional view of water isotopes in Antarctic firn at Kohnen Station, Dronning Maud Land. Climate of the Past, 12(7), 1565-1581, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-12-1565-2016
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Abstract:
In low-accumulation regions, the reliability of d18O-derived temperature signals from ice cores within the Holocene is unclear, primarily due to the small climate changes relative to the intrinsic noise of the isotopic signal. In order to learn about the representativity of single ice cores and to optimise future ice-core-based climate reconstructions, we studied the stable-water isotope composition of firn at Kohnen station, Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica. Analysing d18O in two 50 m long snow trenches allowed us to create an unprecedented, two-dimensional image characterising the isotopic variations from the centimetre to the hundred-metre scale. This data set includes the complete trench oxygen isotope record together with the meta data used in the study.
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Data tables in original format [dataset]. trench_data.zip
Further details:
Nixdorf, Uwe (2012): Expedition programs Antarctica (ANT - Land 2012/2013). Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany, 50 pp, hdl:10013/epic.44240.d008
Coverage:
Median Latitude: -75.007450 * Median Longitude: 0.080950 * South-bound Latitude: -75.008490 * West-bound Longitude: 0.074970 * North-bound Latitude: -75.006410 * East-bound Longitude: 0.086930
Date/Time Start: 2013-01-03T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 2013-01-05T00:00:00
Comment:
This work was supported by the Initiative and Networking Fund of the Helmholtz Association Grant VG-NH900 and is part of the "Coldest Firn Associated Projects" (CoFiAP).
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Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC-BY-3.0)
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Datasets listed in this publication series
- Münch, T; Kipfstuhl, S; Freitag, J et al. (2016): Oxygen isotopes measured along snow Trench 1 from Kohnen Station, Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.861673
- Münch, T; Kipfstuhl, S; Freitag, J et al. (2016): Oxygen isotopes measured along snow Trench 2 from Kohnen Station, Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.861674