Ice core ethane and acetylene measurements, Greenland and Antarctica, 0-1900 CE

• Main Authors: Melinda Nicewonger, Murat Aydin, Eric Saltzman
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Arctic Data Center 2019
• Subjects: ethane; ice core; Greenland; Antarctica; WAIS Divide; South Pole; GISP2; Arctic; acetylene; Antarctic; West Antarctic Ice Sheet; Antarc*; Ice Sheet; South pole
• Online Access: https://search.dataone.org/view/urn:uuid:f4eb9e44-26e5-40c0-8b7e-447ed7d42d6e

Ethane and acetylene are non-methane hydrocarbons released from combustion processes, with shared sources from fossil fuel use, biofuel and biomass burning. Ethane is also thought to have a source through natural geologic outgassing (Etiope and Ciccioli, 2009). Ethane and acetylene levels in the atm...