www.clim-past.net/3/485/2007/ © Author(s) 2007. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. Climate of the Past The EDC3 chronology for the EPICA Dome C ice core

• Main Authors: F. Parrenin, J. -m. Barnola, J. Beer, T. Blunier, E. Castellano, G. Dreyfus, H. Fischer, S. Fujita, J. Jouzel, K. Kawamura, B. Lemieux-dudon, L. Loulergue, V. Masson-delmotte, B. Narcisi, J. -r. Petit, G. Raisbeck, D. Raynaud, U. Ruth, J. Schw, M. Severi, R. Spahni, J. P. Steffensen, A. Svensson, R. Udisti, C. Waelbroeck, E. Wolff
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2007
• Subjects: Dome Fuji; East Antarctica; Antarc*; Antarctica; EPICA; ice core
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.391.5388; http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00/33/07/61/PDF/cp-3-485-2007.pdf

Antarctica) Dome C drilling in East Antarctica has now been completed to a depth of 3260 m, at only a few meters above bedrock. Here we present the new EDC3 chronology, which is based on the use of 1) a snow accumulation and mechanical flow model, and 2) a set of independent age markers along the co...