‘Organics in ice’: Novel organic compounds in ice cores for use in palaeoclimate reconstruction

• Main Author: King, Amy Constance Faith
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository 2019
• Subjects: Ice core; Biomarkers; Mass Spectrometry; Liquid Chromotography; Palaeoclimate; Bouvet; Sea Ice; Belukha; Antarctic; Greenland; Bouvet Island; Monte Rosa; Antarc*; glacier; ice core; Sea ice; Alaska
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.17863/cam.44710; https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/297656

The majority of current ice core studies focus on analysing the inorganic component of atmospheric aerosol, trapped and preserved in the ice as a record of past atmosphere. However, this does not fully represent the make-up of atmospheric aerosol, which can be up to 50% organic. This thesis aims to...