Significant mass loss in the accumulation area of the Adamello glacier indicated by the chronology of a 46 m ice core
Dating glaciers is an arduous yet essential task in ice core studies, which becomes even more challenging when dating glaciers suffering from mass loss in the accumulation zone as result of climate warming. In this context, we dated a 46 m deep ice core from the Central Italian Alps retrieved in 201...
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ftcopernicus:oai:publications.copernicus.org:tcd90994 2023-05-15T16:38:40+02:00 Significant mass loss in the accumulation area of the Adamello glacier indicated by the chronology of a 46 m ice core Festi, Daniela Schwikowski, Margit Maggi, Valter Oeggl, Klaus Jenk, Theo Manuel 2020-11-20 application/pdf https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-2020-334 https://tc.copernicus.org/preprints/tc-2020-334/ eng eng doi:10.5194/tc-2020-334 https://tc.copernicus.org/preprints/tc-2020-334/ eISSN: 1994-0424 Text 2020 ftcopernicus https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-2020-334 2020-11-23T17:22:14Z Dating glaciers is an arduous yet essential task in ice core studies, which becomes even more challenging when dating glaciers suffering from mass loss in the accumulation zone as result of climate warming. In this context, we dated a 46 m deep ice core from the Central Italian Alps retrieved in 2016 from the Adamello glacier in the locality Pian di Neve (3100 m a.s.l.). Here we present a timescale for the core obtained by integrating results from the analyses of the radionuclides 210 Pb and 137 Cs with annual layer counting derived from pollen and refractory black carbon concentrations. Our results clearly indicate that the surface of the glacier is older than the drilling date of 2016 by about 20 years and that the 46 m ice core reaches back to around 1944. Despite the severe mass loss affecting this glacier even in the accumulation zone, we show that it is possible to obtain a reliable timescale for such a temperate glacier. Our results are therefore very encouraging and open new perspectives on the potential of such glaciers as informative palaeoarchives. Text ice core Copernicus Publications: E-Journals |
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Dating glaciers is an arduous yet essential task in ice core studies, which becomes even more challenging when dating glaciers suffering from mass loss in the accumulation zone as result of climate warming. In this context, we dated a 46 m deep ice core from the Central Italian Alps retrieved in 2016 from the Adamello glacier in the locality Pian di Neve (3100 m a.s.l.). Here we present a timescale for the core obtained by integrating results from the analyses of the radionuclides 210 Pb and 137 Cs with annual layer counting derived from pollen and refractory black carbon concentrations. Our results clearly indicate that the surface of the glacier is older than the drilling date of 2016 by about 20 years and that the 46 m ice core reaches back to around 1944. Despite the severe mass loss affecting this glacier even in the accumulation zone, we show that it is possible to obtain a reliable timescale for such a temperate glacier. Our results are therefore very encouraging and open new perspectives on the potential of such glaciers as informative palaeoarchives. |
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Festi, Daniela Schwikowski, Margit Maggi, Valter Oeggl, Klaus Jenk, Theo Manuel Significant mass loss in the accumulation area of the Adamello glacier indicated by the chronology of a 46 m ice core |
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Significant mass loss in the accumulation area of the Adamello glacier indicated by the chronology of a 46 m ice core |
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Significant mass loss in the accumulation area of the Adamello glacier indicated by the chronology of a 46 m ice core |
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Significant mass loss in the accumulation area of the Adamello glacier indicated by the chronology of a 46 m ice core |
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Significant mass loss in the accumulation area of the Adamello glacier indicated by the chronology of a 46 m ice core |
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Significant mass loss in the accumulation area of the Adamello glacier indicated by the chronology of a 46 m ice core |
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significant mass loss in the accumulation area of the adamello glacier indicated by the chronology of a 46 m ice core |
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