Oerter, Hans; Meyer, Hanno; Wilhelms, Frank; Painer, Florian (2025): Stable water isotopes (δ18O) of ice core EDML from 2416 m to 2773.5 m [dataset]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.984706
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Published: 2025-09-15 • DOI registered: 2025-09-30
Abstract:
The European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica (EPICA) focused on the drilling of two deep ice cores, the first at Dome C (EDC) and the second at Kohnen station (75°00' S, 0°04' E) in Dronning Maud Land (EDML). This dataset presents the stable water isotopes (δ18O) of the EDML ice core from 2416 m to 2773.5 m in 0.5 m resolution. Ice samples were measured at the Alfred Wegener Institute in Bremerhaven and Potsdam using mass spectrometry.
This dataset can be seen as an extension to EPICA Community Members (2010). However, note that the EDML ice core is dated down to approx. 2416 m depth because the match between EDML and EDC becomes ambiguous further down (Ruth et al., 2007).
References:
EPICA Community Members (2010): Stable oxygen isotopes of ice core EDML [dataset]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.754444
Ruth, Urs; Barnola, Jean-Marc; Beer, Jürg; Bigler, Matthias; Blunier, Thomas; Castellano, Emiliano; Fischer, Hubertus; Fundel, Felix; Huybrechts, Philippe; Kaufmann, Patrik R; Kipfstuhl, Sepp; Lambrecht, Anja; Morganti, Andrea; Oerter, Hans; Parrenin, Frédéric; Rybak, Oleg; Severi, Mirko; Udisti, Roberto; Wilhelms, Frank; Wolff, Eric William (2007): EDML1: a chronology for the EPICA deep ice core from Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica, over the last 150 000 years. Climate of the Past, 3, 475-484, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-3-475-2007
Project(s):
Funding:
Fifth Framework Programme (FP5), grant/award no. EVK2-CT-2000-00077: European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica
Fourth Framework Programme (FP4), grant/award no. ENV4980702: European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica
Coverage:
Latitude: -75.002500 * Longitude: 0.068400
Date/Time Start: 2001-01-10T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 2006-01-17T00:00:00
Minimum DEPTH, ice/snow: 2416.00 m * Maximum DEPTH, ice/snow: 2773.50 m
Event(s):
EDML (EPICA Dronning Maud Land, DML28C01_00) * Latitude: -75.002500 * Longitude: 0.068400 * Date/Time Start: 2001-01-10T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 2006-01-17T00:00:00 * Elevation: 2891.7 m * Recovery: 2774.15 m * Campaign: EPICA-Campaigns * Basis: Kohnen Station * Method/Device: EPICA drill (EDRILL) * Comment: Elevation is given with reference to WGS84
Parameter(s):
| # | Name | Short Name | Unit | Principal Investigator | Method/Device | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | DEPTH, ice/snow | Depth ice/snow | m | Oerter, Hans | Geocode | |
| 2 | δ18O, water | δ18O H2O | ‰ SMOW | Oerter, Hans | Mass spectrometer (MSPEC) |
License:
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY-4.0)
Status:
Curation Level: Enhanced curation (CurationLevelC)
Size:
716 data points