Studies on climatic and environmental changes during the last few hundred years using ice cores from various sites in Nordaustlandet, Svalbard (scientific paper)

• Main Authors: Watanabe, Okitsugu, Motoyama, Hideaki, Igarashi, Makoto, Kamiyama, Kokichi, Matoba, Sumito, Goto-Azuma, Kumiko, Narita, Hideki, Kameda, Takao
• Language: English
• Published: 国立極地研究所
• Subjects: Svalbard; Nordaustlandet; Austfonna; Vestfonna; ice core; Memoirs of National Institute of Polar Research; Polar Research
• Online Access: https://kitami-it.repo.nii.ac.jp/record/7220/files/5121.pdf

Ice coring and snow cover observations have been carried out at 3 sites in Nordaustlandet, Svalbard since 1995. The results of stratigraphic analyses, and chemical and δ^<18>O analyses from Vestfonna and Austfonna cores are presented here. The results from these sites show that most of the che...