Core characteristics and events detected in ice cores from Svalbard

• Main Authors: Watanabe, Okitsugu, Motoyama, Hideaki, Igarashi, Makoto, Kamiyama, Kokichi, Matoba, Sumito, Goto-Azuma, Kumiko, Narita, Hideki, Kameda, Takao
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2001
• Subjects: Austfonna; Nordaustlandet; Svalbard; Vestfonna; ice core; Memoirs of National Institute of Polar Research; Polar Research
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.807186; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.807186

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 d18O analyses from Vestfonna and Austfonna cores are presented here. The results from these sites show that most of the chemical con...