Stable isotope stacks from GRIP and GISP ice cores ...

• Main Authors: White, James W C, Barlow, L K, Fisher, D, Grootes, Pieter Meiert, Jouzel, Jean, Johnsen, Sigfús Jóhann, Stuiver, Minze, Clausen, Henrik Brink
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2009
• Subjects: Drilling/drill rig; ISTUK electromechanical drill; GISP; GRIP; Sampling/drilling ice; Greenland Ice Core Projects GRIP/GISP/NGRIP; Greenland; Greenland ice core; Greenland Ice core Project; Greenland Ice Sheet Project; ice core; Ice Sheet; NGRIP; North Atlantic; North Atlantic oscillation
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.716878; https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.716878

Recent efforts to link the isotopic composition of snow in Greenland with meteorological and climatic parameters have indicated that relatively local information such as observed annual temperatures from coastal Greenland sites, as well as more synoptic scale features such as the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) and the temperature seesaw between Jakobshaven, Greenland, and Oslo, Norway, are significantly correlated with d18O and dD values from the past few hundred years measured in ice cores. In this study we review those efforts and then use a new record of isotope values from the Greenland Ice Sheet Project 2 and Greenland Ice Core Project sites at Summit, Greenland, to compare with meteorological and climatic parameters. This new record consists of six individual annually resolved isotopic records which have been average to produce a Summit stacked isotope record. The stacked record is significantly correlated with local Greenland temperatures over the past century (r=0.471), as well as a number of other ... : Supplement to: Steig, Eric J; Grootes, Pieter Meiert; Stuiver, Minze (1994): Seasonal precipitation timing and ice core records. Science, 266(5192), 1885-1886 ...