Very old firn air linked to strong density layering at Styx Glacier, coastal Victoria Land, East Antarctica

• Published in: The Cryosphere
• Main Authors: Jang, Youngjoon, Hong, Sang Bum, Buizert, Christo, Lee, Hun-Gyu, Han, Sang-Young, Yang, Ji-Woong, Iizuka, Yoshinori, Hori, Akira, Han, Yeongcheol, Jun, Seong Joon, Tans, Pieter, Choi, Taejin, Kim, Seong-Joong, Hur, Soon Do, Ahn, Jinho
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2019
• Subjects: article; Verlagsveröffentlichung; East Antarctica; Ross Sea; Styx Glacier; Victoria Land; Antarc*; Antarctica; The Cryosphere
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-2407-2019; https://noa.gwlb.de/receive/cop_mods_00040356; https://noa.gwlb.de/servlets/MCRFileNodeServlet/cop_derivate_00039980/tc-13-2407-2019.pdf; https://tc.copernicus.org/articles/13/2407/2019/tc-13-2407-2019.pdf

Firn air provides plenty of old air from the near past, and can therefore be useful for understanding human impact on the recent history of the atmospheric composition. Most of the existing firn air records cover only the last several decades (typically 40 to 55 years) and are insufficient to unders...