Table 3.5 Content and composition of air in fresh ice

• Main Author: Stauffer, Bernhard
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 1981
• Subjects: Air content; Aletsch Glacier; Bernese Alps; Switzerland; ALG; Area/locality; Argon; Carbon dioxide; DEPTH; ice/snow; Event label; GLAC; GRG; Griesgletscher; Lepontine Alps; Kesselwandferner; Ötztaler Alpen; Austria; KWF; Nitrogen; gas; Oxygen; Sampling/measurements on glacier; Antarctic; Greenland; Antarc*; glacier; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.803180; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.803180

Natural ice is formed by freezing of water or by sintering of dry or wet snow. Each of these processes causes atmospheric air to be enclosed in ice as bubbles. The air amount and composition as well as the bubble sizes and density depend not only on the kind of process but also on several environmen...