Low time resolution analysis of polar ice cores cannot detect impulsive nitrate events
Ice cores are archives of climate change and possibly large solar proton events (SPEs). Wolff et al. (2012) used a single event, a nitrate peak in the GISP2-H core, which McCracken et al. (2001a) time associated with the poorly quantified 1859 Carrington event, to discredit SPE-produced, impulsive n...
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ftdatacite:10.48550/arxiv.1501.01204 2023-05-15T16:29:23+02:00 Low time resolution analysis of polar ice cores cannot detect impulsive nitrate events Smart, D. F. Shea, M. A. Melott, A. L. Laird, C. M. 2015 https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1501.01204 https://arxiv.org/abs/1501.01204 unknown arXiv https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2014ja020378 arXiv.org perpetual, non-exclusive license http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/ Geophysics physics.geo-ph High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena astro-ph.HE Solar and Stellar Astrophysics astro-ph.SR Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics physics.ao-ph Space Physics physics.space-ph FOS Physical sciences article-journal Article ScholarlyArticle Text 2015 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1501.01204 https://doi.org/10.1002/2014ja020378 2022-04-01T12:23:58Z Ice cores are archives of climate change and possibly large solar proton events (SPEs). Wolff et al. (2012) used a single event, a nitrate peak in the GISP2-H core, which McCracken et al. (2001a) time associated with the poorly quantified 1859 Carrington event, to discredit SPE-produced, impulsive nitrate deposition in polar ice. This is not the ideal test case. We critique the Wolff et al. analysis and demonstrate that the data they used cannot detect impulsive nitrate events because of resolution limitations. We suggest re-examination of the top of the Greenland ice sheet at key intervals over the last two millennia with attention to fine resolution and replicate sampling of multiple species. This will allow further insight into polar depositional processes on a sub-seasonal scale, including atmospheric sources, transport mechanisms to the ice sheet, post-depositional interactions, and a potential SPE association. : 22 pages, 7 figures in Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics 119, 2014 Text Greenland Ice Sheet DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) Greenland |
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Ice cores are archives of climate change and possibly large solar proton events (SPEs). Wolff et al. (2012) used a single event, a nitrate peak in the GISP2-H core, which McCracken et al. (2001a) time associated with the poorly quantified 1859 Carrington event, to discredit SPE-produced, impulsive nitrate deposition in polar ice. This is not the ideal test case. We critique the Wolff et al. analysis and demonstrate that the data they used cannot detect impulsive nitrate events because of resolution limitations. We suggest re-examination of the top of the Greenland ice sheet at key intervals over the last two millennia with attention to fine resolution and replicate sampling of multiple species. This will allow further insight into polar depositional processes on a sub-seasonal scale, including atmospheric sources, transport mechanisms to the ice sheet, post-depositional interactions, and a potential SPE association. : 22 pages, 7 figures in Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics 119, 2014 |
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Low time resolution analysis of polar ice cores cannot detect impulsive nitrate events |
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Low time resolution analysis of polar ice cores cannot detect impulsive nitrate events |
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Low time resolution analysis of polar ice cores cannot detect impulsive nitrate events |
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Low time resolution analysis of polar ice cores cannot detect impulsive nitrate events |
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