NEEM ice core Late Holocene continuous methane

Local artifacts in ice core methane data are superimposed on consistent records of past atmospheric variability. These artifacts are not related to past atmospheric history and care should be taken to avoid interpreting them as such. By investigating five polar ice cores from sites with different co...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Oregon State University, Rachael Rhodes
Format: Dataset
Language:unknown
Published: Arctic Data Center 2016
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Online Access:https://search.dataone.org/view/urn:uuid:5c0bde7d-5a9f-4710-973d-49de15441bd9
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Summary:Local artifacts in ice core methane data are superimposed on consistent records of past atmospheric variability. These artifacts are not related to past atmospheric history and care should be taken to avoid interpreting them as such. By investigating five polar ice cores from sites with different conditions, we relate isolated methane spikes to melt layers and decimetre-scale variations as "trapping signal" associated with a difference in timing of air bubble closure in adjacent firn layers.