Historical Isotopic Temperature Record from the Vostok Ice Core (420,000 years BP-present) ...

• Main Authors: Petit, J., Raynaud, D., Lorius, C., Jouzel, J., Delaygue, G., Barkov, N., Kotlyakov, V.
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Environmental System Science Data Infrastructure for a Virtual Ecosystem; Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center (CDIAC), Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States) 2000
• Subjects: 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; East Antarctica; Vostok Station; Antarc*; Antarctica; ice core
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.3334/cdiac/cli.006; https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1394913/

Because isotopic fractions of the heavier oxygen-18 (18O) and deuterium (D) in snowfall are temperature-dependent and a strong spatial correlation exists between the annual mean temperature and the mean isotopic ratio (18O or δD) of precipitation, it is possible to derive ice-core climate records. T...