Challenges associated with the climatic interpretation of water stable isotope records from a highly resolved firn core from Adélie Land, coastal Antarctica

• Published in: The Cryosphere
• Main Authors: Goursaud, Sentia, Masson-Delmotte, Valérie, Favier, Vincent, Preunkert, Suzanne, Legrand, Michel, Minster, Bénédicte, Werner, Martin
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Antarctic; Austral; Terre Adélie; Terre-Adélie; Antarc*; Antarctica; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-1297-2019; https://tc.copernicus.org/articles/13/1297/2019/

A new 21.3 m firn core was drilled in 2015 at a coastal Antarctic high-accumulation site in Adélie Land (66.78 ∘ S; 139.56 ∘ E, 602 m a.s.l.), named Terre Adélie 192A (TA192A). The mean isotopic values ( <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" id="M3" display="in...