Inferences from stable water isotopes on the Holocene evolution of Scharffenbergbotnen blue-ice area, East Antarctica

• Main Authors: Sinisalo, Anna, Grinsted, Aslak, Moore, John C., Meijer, Harro A. J., Martma, Tonu, Van De Wal, Roderik S. W.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2007
• Subjects: DRONNING-MAUD-LAND; SURFACE MASS-BALANCE; TEMPERATURE-CHANGES; DEUTERIUM EXCESS; METEOROLOGICAL CONDITIONS; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; PRECIPITATION; VOSTOK; CORES; SNOW; Bia; Dronning Maud Land; East Antarctica; Scharffenbergbotnen; Antarc*; Antarctica; Antarctica Journal; Ice Sheet; Journal of Glaciology
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/11370/5e4adef6-8e82-483b-bf3c-9415bbf62e39; https://research.rug.nl/en/publications/5e4adef6-8e82-483b-bf3c-9415bbf62e39

We show that it is possible to extract a high-resolution (annual) paleoclimate record from the surface of a blue-ice area (BIA). The variability of the surface stable-isotope values suggests that almost all the surface ice in Scharffenbergbotnen BIA, East Antarctica, is of Holocene age. The isotopic...