Modelled age-depth profile at location of the Beyond EPICA drill site (BELDC) based on the Little Dome C-Very High Frequency radar system (LDC-VHF) survey

• Main Authors: Chung, Ailsa, Parrenin, Frédéric, Steinhage, Daniel, Mulvaney, Robert, Martín, Carlos, Cavitte, Marie G P, Lilien, David A, Helm, Veit, Taylor, Drew, Gogineni, Prasad, Ritz, Catherine, Frezzotti, Massimo, O'Neill, Charles, Miller, Heinrich, Dahl-Jensen, Dorthe, Eisen, Olaf
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2024
• Subjects: Accumulation rate in ice equivalent per year; Age; 1D numerical model; Age density; BELDC_site; BE-OI; Beyond EPICA drill site; Beyond EPICA - Oldest Ice; DEPTH; ice/snow; Ice age; uncertainty; MULT; Multiple investigations; Thinning function; Velocity; vertical; Antarc*; Antarctic; Antarctica; EPICA; The Cryosphere
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.966745; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.966745

We used a 1D numerical model constrained by radar horizons to find the age-depth profile at the European Beyond EPICA - Oldest Ice project drill site (BELDC; 75.29917 °S, 122.44516 °E) on Little Dome C (LDC), Antarctica. Further details on the model can be found in the associated publication: Chung et al., 2023 (The Cryosphere). The model was constrained by 19 horizons from the radar survey conducted during the 2019-20 Antarctic field season in a collaboration between the University of Alabama (UA), the University of Copenhagen (CPH) and the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI), using the Little Dome C-Very High Frequency radar system (LDC-VHF; Chung et al., 2023, PANGAEA). The age-depth profile extends to the deepest point where modelled age density < 20 ka/m - the threshold for which a paleoclimatic signal can reasonably be extracted.