High resolution aerosol data from the top 3.8 ka of the EGRIP ice core

• Main Authors: Erhardt, Tobias, Jensen, Camilla Marie, Adolphi, Florian, Kjær, Helle Astrid, Dallmayr, Remi, Twarloh, Birthe, Behrens, Melanie, Hirabayashi, Motohiro, Fukuda, Kaori, Ogata, Jun, Burgay, François, Scoto, Federico, Crotti, Ilaria, Spagnesi, Azzurra, Maffezzoli, Niccoló, Segato, Delia, Paleari, Chiara, Mekhaldi, Florian, Muscheler, Raimund, Darfeuil, Sophie, Fischer, Hubertus
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2023
• Subjects: Greenland; East Greenland; Greenland ice core; ice core
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2023-176; https://essd.copernicus.org/preprints/essd-2023-176/

Here we present the high-resolution CFA data from the top 479 m of the East Greenland Ice coring Project (EGRIP) ice core covering the past 3.8 thousand years. The data consists of 1 mm-depth-resolution profiles of calcium, sodium, am- monium, nitrate and electrolytic conductivity as well as decadal averages of these profiles. Alongside the data we provide a description of the measurement setup, procedures, the relevant references for the specific methods as well as an assessment of the precision of the measurements, the sample to depth assignment and the depth and temporal resolution of the data set. The nominally 1-mm data represents an oversampling of the record as the true resolution is limited by the analytical setup to approximately 1 cm. The error of absolute depth assignment of the data may be on the order of 1 cm, however relative depth offsets be- tween the records of the individual species is only on the order of 1 mm. The presented data has sub-annual resolution over the entire depth range and has already formed part of the data for an annually layer-counted time scale for the EGRIP ice core used to improve and revise the multi-core Greenland ice-core chronology (GICC05) to a new version,GICC21 (Sinnl et al., 2021). The data is available in full 1-mm resolution and decadal averages on PANGAEA ( https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.945293 (Erhardt et al., 2022b))