Ice Core Chemistry: Enhanced Sea Ice Proxy and Micrometer Resolution Analysis

• Main Author: Buchanan Sneed, Sharon
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: DigitalCommons@UMaine 2013
• Subjects: Sea ice; Ice cores; Analysis; Antarctica; Climate; Antarctic; Greenland; Siple; Siple Dome; South Pole; The Antarctic; Antarc*; ice core; South pole
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/etd/2015; https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/context/etd/article/3048/viewcontent/SneedSB2013_OCR.pdf

This dissertation is in two parts. The first presents an expanded examination of a proxy for sea ice extent around Antarctica. Maximum and mean concentrations of sodium, non-sea salt sulfate, and methylsullfonate are measured on six ice cores. Four cores were collected as part of the International T...