Three-year monitoring of stable isotopes of precipitation at Concordia Station, East Antarctica
Past temperature reconstructions from Antarctic ice cores require a good quantification and understanding of the relationship between snow isotopic composition and 2 m air or inversion (condensation) temperature. Here, we focus on the French–Italian Concordia Station, central East Antarctic plateau,...
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ftcopernicus:oai:publications.copernicus.org:tc51951 2023-05-15T13:54:27+02:00 Three-year monitoring of stable isotopes of precipitation at Concordia Station, East Antarctica Stenni, Barbara Scarchilli, Claudio Masson-Delmotte, Valerie Schlosser, Elisabeth Ciardini, Virginia Dreossi, Giuliano Grigioni, Paolo Bonazza, Mattia Cagnati, Anselmo Karlicek, Daniele Risi, Camille Udisti, Roberto Valt, Mauro 2018-09-27 application/pdf https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-2415-2016 https://tc.copernicus.org/articles/10/2415/2016/ eng eng doi:10.5194/tc-10-2415-2016 https://tc.copernicus.org/articles/10/2415/2016/ eISSN: 1994-0424 Text 2018 ftcopernicus https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-2415-2016 2020-07-20T16:23:58Z Past temperature reconstructions from Antarctic ice cores require a good quantification and understanding of the relationship between snow isotopic composition and 2 m air or inversion (condensation) temperature. Here, we focus on the French–Italian Concordia Station, central East Antarctic plateau, where the European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica (EPICA) Dome C ice cores were drilled. We provide a multi-year record of daily precipitation types identified from crystal morphologies, daily precipitation amounts and isotopic composition. Our sampling period (2008–2010) encompasses a warmer year (2009, +1.2 °C with respect to 2 m air temperature long-term average 1996–2010), with larger total precipitation and snowfall amounts (14 and 76 % above sampling period average, respectively), and a colder and drier year (2010, −1.8 °C, 4 % below long-term and sampling period averages, respectively) with larger diamond dust amounts (49 % above sampling period average). Relationships between local meteorological data and precipitation isotopic composition are investigated at daily, monthly and inter-annual scale, and for the different types of precipitation. Water stable isotopes are more closely related to 2 m air temperature than to inversion temperature at all timescales (e.g. R 2 = 0.63 and 0.44, respectively for daily values). The slope of the temporal relationship between daily δ 18 O and 2 m air temperature is approximately 2 times smaller (0.49 ‰ °C −1 ) than the average Antarctic spatial (0.8 ‰ °C −1 ) relationship initially used for the interpretation of EPICA Dome C records. In accordance with results from precipitation monitoring at Vostok and Dome F, deuterium excess is anti-correlated with δ 18 O at daily and monthly scales, reaching maximum values in winter. Hoar frost precipitation samples have a specific fingerprint with more depleted δ 18 O (about 5 ‰ below average) and higher deuterium excess (about 8 ‰ above average) values than other precipitation types. These datasets provide a basis for comparison with shallow ice core records, to investigate post-deposition effects. A preliminary comparison between observations and precipitation from the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) reanalysis and the simulated water stable isotopes from the Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique Zoom atmospheric general circulation model (LMDZiso) shows that models do correctly capture the amount of precipitation as well as more than 50 % of the variance of the observed δ 18 O, driven by large-scale weather patterns. Despite a warm bias and an underestimation of the variance in water stable isotopes, LMDZiso correctly captures these relationships between δ 18 O, 2 m air temperature and deuterium excess. Our dataset is therefore available for further in-depth model evaluation at the synoptic scale. Text Antarc* Antarctic Antarctica East Antarctica EPICA ice core Copernicus Publications: E-Journals Antarctic Concordia Station ENVELOPE(123.333,123.333,-75.100,-75.100) Dome F ENVELOPE(39.700,39.700,-77.317,-77.317) East Antarctica The Cryosphere 10 5 2415 2428 |
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Past temperature reconstructions from Antarctic ice cores require a good quantification and understanding of the relationship between snow isotopic composition and 2 m air or inversion (condensation) temperature. Here, we focus on the French–Italian Concordia Station, central East Antarctic plateau, where the European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica (EPICA) Dome C ice cores were drilled. We provide a multi-year record of daily precipitation types identified from crystal morphologies, daily precipitation amounts and isotopic composition. Our sampling period (2008–2010) encompasses a warmer year (2009, +1.2 °C with respect to 2 m air temperature long-term average 1996–2010), with larger total precipitation and snowfall amounts (14 and 76 % above sampling period average, respectively), and a colder and drier year (2010, −1.8 °C, 4 % below long-term and sampling period averages, respectively) with larger diamond dust amounts (49 % above sampling period average). Relationships between local meteorological data and precipitation isotopic composition are investigated at daily, monthly and inter-annual scale, and for the different types of precipitation. Water stable isotopes are more closely related to 2 m air temperature than to inversion temperature at all timescales (e.g. R 2 = 0.63 and 0.44, respectively for daily values). The slope of the temporal relationship between daily δ 18 O and 2 m air temperature is approximately 2 times smaller (0.49 ‰ °C −1 ) than the average Antarctic spatial (0.8 ‰ °C −1 ) relationship initially used for the interpretation of EPICA Dome C records. In accordance with results from precipitation monitoring at Vostok and Dome F, deuterium excess is anti-correlated with δ 18 O at daily and monthly scales, reaching maximum values in winter. Hoar frost precipitation samples have a specific fingerprint with more depleted δ 18 O (about 5 ‰ below average) and higher deuterium excess (about 8 ‰ above average) values than other precipitation types. These datasets provide a basis for comparison with shallow ice core records, to investigate post-deposition effects. A preliminary comparison between observations and precipitation from the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) reanalysis and the simulated water stable isotopes from the Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique Zoom atmospheric general circulation model (LMDZiso) shows that models do correctly capture the amount of precipitation as well as more than 50 % of the variance of the observed δ 18 O, driven by large-scale weather patterns. Despite a warm bias and an underestimation of the variance in water stable isotopes, LMDZiso correctly captures these relationships between δ 18 O, 2 m air temperature and deuterium excess. Our dataset is therefore available for further in-depth model evaluation at the synoptic scale. |
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Stenni, Barbara Scarchilli, Claudio Masson-Delmotte, Valerie Schlosser, Elisabeth Ciardini, Virginia Dreossi, Giuliano Grigioni, Paolo Bonazza, Mattia Cagnati, Anselmo Karlicek, Daniele Risi, Camille Udisti, Roberto Valt, Mauro |
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Stenni, Barbara Scarchilli, Claudio Masson-Delmotte, Valerie Schlosser, Elisabeth Ciardini, Virginia Dreossi, Giuliano Grigioni, Paolo Bonazza, Mattia Cagnati, Anselmo Karlicek, Daniele Risi, Camille Udisti, Roberto Valt, Mauro |
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Three-year monitoring of stable isotopes of precipitation at Concordia Station, East Antarctica |
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Three-year monitoring of stable isotopes of precipitation at Concordia Station, East Antarctica |
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Three-year monitoring of stable isotopes of precipitation at Concordia Station, East Antarctica |
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Three-year monitoring of stable isotopes of precipitation at Concordia Station, East Antarctica |
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