Ethane measurements in air extracted from Greenland and Antarctic ice cores
Ethane is one of the most abundant hydrocarbon gases in the atmosphere with emissions from production and use of fossil fuels, from biomass burning, and from a variety of geologic sources. All ethane sources also emit methane, the second most important greenhouse gas in the atmosphere. However, etha...
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ftdatacite:10.18739/a25717n6t 2023-05-15T13:44:35+02:00 Ethane measurements in air extracted from Greenland and Antarctic ice cores Nicewonger, Melinda Verhulst, Kristal Aydin, Murat Saltzman, Eric 2017 text/xml https://dx.doi.org/10.18739/a25717n6t https://arcticdata.io/catalog/#view/doi:10.18739/A25717N6T en eng EOL Data Support. UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory Antarctic Arctic climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere dataset Dataset 2017 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.18739/a25717n6t 2021-11-05T12:55:41Z Ethane is one of the most abundant hydrocarbon gases in the atmosphere with emissions from production and use of fossil fuels, from biomass burning, and from a variety of geologic sources. All ethane sources also emit methane, the second most important greenhouse gas in the atmosphere. However, ethane does not share the biological source of methane, making it a useful proxy for specific methane sources. This project will analyze of paleo-atmospheric ethane (C2H6), using a wet-extraction technique that has been used to measure ethane in Antarctic ice cores, using ice core samples from Summit, Greenland and producing the first northern hemisphere ethane record. The results will enable answers to questions about the importance of geological emissions of methane to the preindustrial atmosphere, and about the timing and magnitude of changes in biomass burning emissions during the late Holocene. In conjunction with measurements on Antarctic ice cores, the data from this project will help establish the north-south interhemispheric gradient of ethane in the preindustrial atmosphere. Dataset Antarc* Antarctic Arctic Greenland ice core DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) Arctic Antarctic Greenland |
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Ethane is one of the most abundant hydrocarbon gases in the atmosphere with emissions from production and use of fossil fuels, from biomass burning, and from a variety of geologic sources. All ethane sources also emit methane, the second most important greenhouse gas in the atmosphere. However, ethane does not share the biological source of methane, making it a useful proxy for specific methane sources. This project will analyze of paleo-atmospheric ethane (C2H6), using a wet-extraction technique that has been used to measure ethane in Antarctic ice cores, using ice core samples from Summit, Greenland and producing the first northern hemisphere ethane record. The results will enable answers to questions about the importance of geological emissions of methane to the preindustrial atmosphere, and about the timing and magnitude of changes in biomass burning emissions during the late Holocene. In conjunction with measurements on Antarctic ice cores, the data from this project will help establish the north-south interhemispheric gradient of ethane in the preindustrial atmosphere. |
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Ethane measurements in air extracted from Greenland and Antarctic ice cores |
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Ethane measurements in air extracted from Greenland and Antarctic ice cores |
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Ethane measurements in air extracted from Greenland and Antarctic ice cores |
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Ethane measurements in air extracted from Greenland and Antarctic ice cores |
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Ethane measurements in air extracted from Greenland and Antarctic ice cores |
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ethane measurements in air extracted from greenland and antarctic ice cores |
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EOL Data Support. UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory |
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Antarc* Antarctic Arctic Greenland ice core |
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Antarc* Antarctic Arctic Greenland ice core |
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