Information on the CO2 cycle from ice core studies ...

• Main Authors: Berner, Werner, Oeschger, Hans, Stauffer, Bernhard
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Arizona Board of Regents, University of Arizona 1980
• Subjects: 530 Physics; Antarc*; Antarctica; Greenland; ice core; North Greenland; West Antarctica
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.48350/158690; https://boris.unibe.ch/158690/

Information on the history of the atmospheric CO2 content and the 13C/12 and 14C/C ratios is recorded in natural ice. Measurements on samples from very cold accumulation regions show that CO2 is occluded not only in air bubbles, but also in the ice lattice. The two CO2 components are of similar size. It is very difficult to measure CO2 in the bubbles and CO2 in the ice lattice separately. By melting the samples and extracting the evolving gases in two fractions, it is possible to estimate CO2 concentration in the bubbles and the ice lattice. Enrichment or depletion of CO2 in the bubbles by exchange with the ice is difficult to estimate. Information about this effect is expected from 13C/12C analysis on the extracted CO2 fractions. To investigate whether atmospheric CO2 content was different during the last glaciation than during the present one, sets of 16 and 20 samples distributed over the last 40,000 years from the two deep ice cores from Camp Century (North Greenland) and Byrd Station (West Antarctica) ...