Aromatic acids in an Arctic ice core from Svalbard: A proxy record of biomass burning

• Main Authors: Grieman, MM, Aydin, M, Isaksson, E, Schwikowski, M, Saltzman, ES
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: eScholarship, University of California 2018
• Subjects: Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience; Paleontology; Arctic; Lomonosovfonna; Svalbard; ice core; North Atlantic; North Atlantic oscillation; Siberia
• Online Access: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9dh457g1

This study presents vanillic acid and parahydroxybenzoic acid levels in an Arctic ice core from Lomonosovfonna, Svalbard covering the past 800 years. These aromatic acids are likely derived from lignin combustion in wildfires and long-range aerosol transport. Vanillic and para-hydroxybenzoic acid ar...