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Sigl, Michael; McConnell, Joseph R; Hörhold, Maria (2024): Annual-resolved sulfur and non-sea-salt sulfur concentrations and inferred volcanic sulfate deposition rates from six Greenland ice cores, 699-1002 CE [dataset]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.967093, In: Sigl, M et al. (2024): Sulfur and volcanic sulfate deposition from 6 ice cores in Greenland [dataset bundled publication]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.967071

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Abstract:
Annual-resolved sulfur and non-sea-salt sulfur concentrations and inferred volcanic sulfate deposition rates from the six ice cores NEEM-2011-S1 (Sigl et al., 2013), NGRIP1 (Plummer et al., 2012), NGRIP2 (McConnell et al., 2018), TUNU2013 (Sigl et al., 2015) and B19 between 699 and 1001 CE.
Keyword(s):
Greenland; Ice core; Iceland; medieval climate anomaly; sulfate; Sulfur; volcanic activity; Volcanic aerosol
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References:
McConnell, Joseph R; Wilson, Andrew I; Stohl, Andreas; Arienzo, Monica M; Chellman, Nathan J; Eckhardt, Sabine; Thompson, Elisabeth M; Pollard, A Mark; Steffensen, Jørgen Peder (2018): Lead pollution recorded in Greenland ice indicates European emissions tracked plagues, wars, and imperial expansion during antiquity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 115(22), 5726-5731, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1721818115
Plummer, C T; Curran, Mark A J; van Ommen, Tas D; Rasmussen, Sune Olander; Moy, Andrew D; Vance, Tessa R; Clausen, Henrik Brink; Vinther, Bo Møllesøe; Mayewski, P A (2012): An independently dated 2000-yr volcanic record from Law Dome, East Antarctica, including a new perspective on the dating of the 1450s CE eruption of Kuwae, Vanuatu. Climate of the Past, 8(6), 1929-1940, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-8-1929-2012
Sigl, Michael; McConnell, Joseph R; Layman, Lawrence; Maselli, Olivia J; McGwire, Ken; Pasteris, Daniel R; Dahl-Jensen, Dorthe; Steffensen, Jørgen Peder; Vinther, Bo Møllesøe; Edwards, Ross; Mulvaney, Robert; Kipfstuhl, Sepp (2013): A new bipolar ice core record of volcanism from WAIS Divide and NEEM and implications for climate forcing of the last 2000 years. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 118(3), 1151-1169, https://doi.org/10.1029/2012JD018603
Sigl, Michael; Winstrup, Mai; McConnell, Joseph R; Welten, Kees C; Plunkett, Gill; Ludlow, F; Büntgen, Ulf; Caffee, Marc W; Chellman, Nathan J; Dahl-Jensen, Dorthe; Fischer, H; Kipfstuhl, Sepp; Kostick, C; Maselli, Olivia J; Mekhaldi, Florian; Mulvaney, Robert; Muscheler, Raimund; Pasteris, Daniel R; Pilcher, John R; Salzer, Matthew W; Schüpbach, Simon; Steffensen, J P; Vinther, Bo Møllesøe; Woodruff, Thomas E (2015): Timing and climate forcing of volcanic eruptions for the past 2,500 years. Nature, 523(7562), 543-549, https://doi.org/10.1038/nature14565
Funding:
European Research Council (ERC), grant/award no. 820047: Timing of Holocene volcanic eruptions and their radiative aerosol forcing (THERA)
Coverage:
Median Latitude: 76.551767 * Median Longitude: -40.326300 * South-bound Latitude: 75.100000 * West-bound Longitude: -51.060000 * North-bound Latitude: 78.030000 * East-bound Longitude: -33.880000
Date/Time Start: 1993-01-01T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 2003-08-31T00:00:00
Minimum Elevation: 2100.0 m * Maximum Elevation: 2917.0 m
Event(s):
EGRIP (EastGRIP) * Latitude: 75.630000 * Longitude: -35.980000 * Location: Greenland * Method/Device: Ice drill (ICEDRILL)
NEEM-2011-S1 * Latitude: 77.450000 * Longitude: -51.060000 * Elevation: 2545.0 m * Penetration: 410 m * Location: Greenland * Method/Device: Ice drill (ICEDRILL) * Comment: Drilled in 2011, 200 m from the main NEEM borehole
NGRIP1 (NorthGRIP) * Latitude: 75.100000 * Longitude: -42.320000 * Date/Time Start: 1996-07-01T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1997-08-31T00:00:00 * Elevation: 2917.0 m * Recovery: 1371.8 * Location: Greenland * Method/Device: Ice drill (ICEDRILL) * Comment: Ice thickness is 3085 m at the drill site.
Parameter(s):
#NameShort NameUnitPrincipal InvestigatorMethod/DeviceComment
1AgeAgea AD/CESigl, MichaelMidpoint
2AGEAgeka BPSigl, MichaelGeocode
3Sulfur, non-sea-saltnssSµg/kgSigl, MichaelB19
4Sulfur, non-sea-saltnssSµg/kgSigl, MichaelTUNU2013
5SulfurSµg/kgSigl, MichaelNGRIP1
6SulfurSµg/kgSigl, MichaelNGRIP2
7Sulfur, non-sea-saltnssSµg/kgSigl, MichaelNEEM-2011-S1
8Sulfur, non-sea-saltnssSµg/kgSigl, MichaelEastGRIP
9Sulfur, non-sea-saltnssSµg/kgSigl, MichaelStack (N=6)
10Deposition of sulfate, volcanicVolc [SO4]2- deposkg/km2/aSigl, MichaelB19
11Deposition of sulfate, volcanicVolc [SO4]2- deposkg/km2/aSigl, MichaelTUNU2013
12Deposition of sulfate, volcanicVolc [SO4]2- deposkg/km2/aSigl, MichaelNGRIP1
13Deposition of sulfate, volcanicVolc [SO4]2- deposkg/km2/aSigl, MichaelNGRIP2
14Deposition of sulfate, volcanicVolc [SO4]2- deposkg/km2/aSigl, MichaelNEEM-2011-S1
15Deposition of sulfate, volcanicVolc [SO4]2- deposkg/km2/aSigl, MichaelEastGRIP
16Deposition of sulfate, volcanicVolc [SO4]2- deposkg/km2/aSigl, MichaelStack (N=6)
Status:
Curation Level: Enhanced curation (CurationLevelC)
Size:
4438 data points

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