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Sigl, Michael (2024): Tsambagarav 2009 ice core (Mongolia, 4130 m asl) refractory black carbon record over the past 6,700 years [dataset]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.972735

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Published: 2024-10-29 • DOI registered: 2024-11-27

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Abstract:
In June 2009, a 72-m long surface-to-bedrock ice core was drilled on Khukh Nuru Uul, a glacier in the Tsambagarav mountain range of the Mongolian Altai (4130 m asl, 48° 39.338' N, 90° 50.826' E). The small ice cap has low ice temperatures and flat bedrock topography at the drill site. This indicates minimal lateral glacier flow and thereby preserved climate signals. The upper two-thirds of the ice core contain 200 years of climate information with annual resolution, whereas the lower third is subject to strong thinning of the annual layers. Here we provide a continuous high resolution (median 2.1 cm per sample) record of concentrations of refractory black carbon (rBC) from the Tsambagarav ice core encompassing the period from 6.7 ka BP to 2008 CE. We analyzed rBC over the entire core (in 2452 discrete samples) with a Single Particle Soot Photometer (SP2, Droplet Measurement Technologies) and a jet (APEX-Q, Elemental Scientific Inc.) nebulizer to aerosolize the aqueous samples using methods described in detail by Sigl et al., (2018) and Osmont et al., (2019). The depth-age model is described in Herren et al., (2013). This dataset underpins and supports analyses of anthropogenic and natural emissions of aerosol species form forest fires, biomass burning and industrial emissions over the industrial (Bauer et al., 2020; Eckhardt et al., 2023) and over pre-industrial periods (Brugger et al., 2018).
Keyword(s):
aerosol forcing; aerosols; Asian Monsoon; Atmosphere; black carbon; Central Asia; climate; climate forcing; CMIP6; emission inventories; fire; glacier; Holocene; Holocene climate; Ice core; Last millennium; Mongolia; Mongolian Altai; Paleoclimate; pollution; soot
References:
Bauer, Susanne E; Tsigaridis, Kostas; Faluvegi, G; Kelley, Maxwell; Lo, Ken K; Miller, Ron L; Nazarenko, Larissa; Schmidt, Gavin A; Wu, Jingbo (2020): Historical (1850–2014) Aerosol Evolution and Role on Climate Forcing Using the GISS ModelE2.1 Contribution to CMIP6. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 12(8), e2019MS001978, https://doi.org/10.1029/2019MS001978
Brügger, Sandra Olivia; Gobet, Erika; Sigl, Michael; Osmont, Dimitri; Papina, Tatyana; Rudaya, Natalia; Schwikowski, Margit; Tinner, Willy (2018): Ice records provide new insights into climatic vulnerability of Central Asian forest and steppe communities. Global and Planetary Change, 169, 188-201, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2018.07.010
Eckhardt, Sabine; Pisso, Ignacio; Evangeliou, Nikolaos; Zwaaftink, Christine Groot; Plach, Andreas; McConnell, Joseph R; Sigl, Michael; Ruppel, Meri; Zdanowicz, Christian; Lim, Saehee; Chellman, Nathan J; Opel, Thomas; Meyer, Hanno; Steffensen, Jørgen Peder; Schwikowski, Margit; Stohl, Andreas (2023): Revised historical Northern Hemisphere black carbon emissions based on inverse modeling of ice core records. Nature Communications, 14(1), 271, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-35660-0
Herren, Pierre-Alain; Eichler, Anja; Machguth, Horst; Papina, Tatyana; Tobler, Leonhard; Zapf, Alexander; Schwikowski, Margit (2013): The onset of Neoglaciation 6000 years ago in western Mongolia revealed by an ice core from the Tsambagarav mountain range. Quaternary Science Reviews, 69, 59-68, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.02.025
Osmont, Dimitri; Sigl, Michael; Eichler, Anja; Jenk, Theo M; Schwikowski, Margit (2019): A Holocene black carbon ice-core record of biomass burning in the Amazon Basin from Illimani, Bolivia. Climate of the Past, 15(2), 579-592, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-15-579-2019
Sigl, Michael; Abram, Nerilie J; Gabrieli, Jacopo; Jenk, Theo M; Osmont, Dimitri; Schwikowski, Margit (2018): 19th century glacier retreat in the Alps preceded the emergence of industrial black carbon deposition on high-alpine glaciers. The Cryosphere, 12(10), 3311-3331, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-12-3311-2018
Funding:
Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF), grant/award no. 154450: Paleo fires from high-alpine ice cores
Coverage:
Latitude: 48.655630 * Longitude: 90.847100
Minimum DEPTH, ice/snow: 0.558 m * Maximum DEPTH, ice/snow: 72.134 m
Event(s):
Tsambagarav2009 * Latitude: 48.655630 * Longitude: 90.847100 * Elevation: 4130.0 m * Location: Khukh Nuru Uul glacier * Method/Device: Ice drill (ICEDRILL)
Parameter(s):
#NameShort NameUnitPrincipal InvestigatorMethod/DeviceComment
1AGEAgeka BPSigl, MichaelGeocode
2AgeAgea AD/CESigl, Michael
3DEPTH, ice/snowDepth ice/snowmSigl, MichaelGeocode – Sample mid depth
4Depth water equivalentDepth w.e.mSigl, MichaelSample mid depth
5Black carbon, refractoryrBCng/gSigl, MichaelSingle particle soot photometer, Droplet Measurement Technologies, SP2; coupled with jet nebulizer, Elemental Scientific, APEX-Q
License:
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY-4.0)
Status:
Curation Level: Enhanced curation (CurationLevelC)
Size:
7352 data points

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