© Author(s) 2009. This work is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. The Cryosphere

• Main Authors: E. Beaudon, J. Moore
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: Arctic; Nordaustlandet; Svalbard; Vestfonna; Antarc*; Antarctica; Hinlopen Strait; Ice cap; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.456.744; http://www.the-cryosphere.net/3/147/2009/tc-3-147-2009.pdf

Abstract. The chemistry of snow and ice cores from Sval-bard is influenced by variations in local sea ice margin and distance to open water. Snow pits sampled at two summits of Vestfonna ice cap (Nordaustlandet, Svalbard), exhibit spa-tially heterogeneous soluble ions concentrations despite sim-ilar...