Ion concentration and deduced chemical compounds of the GRIP and Dome Fuji ice cores, Greenland and Antarctica

• Main Authors: Iizuka, Yoshinori, Horikawa, Shinichiro, Sakurai, Toshimitsu, Johnson, Sigfus, Dahl-Jensen, Dorthe, Steffensen, Jørgen Peder, Hondoh, Takeo
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2008
• Subjects: Greenland Ice Core Projects; GRIP/GISP/NGRIP; International Polar Year (2007-2008); IPY; Antarc*; Antarctica; GISP; Greenland; Greenland ice core; GRIP; ice core; International Polar Year; NGRIP
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.811534; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.811534

We have proposed a method of deducing the chemical compounds found in deep polar ice cores by analyzing the balance between six major ions (Cl-, NO3-, SO4**2-, Na+, Mg2+, and Ca2+). The method is demonstrated for the Holocene and last glacial maximum regions of the Dome Fuji and GRIP ice cores. The...