Age model and stable oxygen isotope mean values of ice core SZ99 from Akademii Nauk ice cap on Severnaya Zemlya ...

• Main Authors: Fritzsche, Diedrich, Schütt, Rainer, Meyer, Hanno, Miller, Heinz, Wilhelms, Frank, Opel, Thomas, Savatyugin, Lev M
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2006
• Subjects: DEPTH, ice/snow; AGE; δ18O, water; Depth water equivalent; Age; δ18O; Ice drill; Calculated average/mean values; Calculated from density; Age model, layer counting; Calculated moving averages; RU-Land_1999/2001_SevernayaZemly; AWI Arctic Land Expedition; Permafrost Research Periglacial Dynamics @ AWI AWI_PerDyn; Ice; Ice cap; ice core; permafrost; Severnaya Zemlya
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.511330; https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.511330

Between 1999 and 2001, a 724 m long ice core was drilled on Akademii Nauk, the largest glacier on Severnaya Zemlya, Russian Arctic. The drilling site is located near the summit. The core is characterized by high melt-layer content. The melt layers are caused by melting and even by rain during the summer. We present high-resolution data of density, electrical conductivity (dielectrical profiling), stable water isotopes and melt-layer content for the upper 136 m (120 m w.e.) of the ice core. The dating by isotopic cycles and electrical conductivity peak identification suggests that this core section covers approximately the past 275 years. Singularities of volcanogenic and anthropogenic origin provide well-defined additional time markers. Long-term temperatures inferred from 12 year running mean averages of d18O reach their lowest level in the entire record around 1790. Thereafter the d18O values indicate a continuously increasing mean temperature on the Akademii Nauk ice cap until 1935, interrupted only by ... : Supplement to: Fritzsche, Diedrich; Schütt, Rainer; Meyer, Hanno; Miller, Heinz; Wilhelms, Frank; Opel, Thomas; Savatyugin, Lev M (2005): A 275 year ice core record from Akademii Nauk ice cap, Severnaya Zemlya, Russian Arctic. Annals of Glaciology, 42, 361-366 ...