16°C rapid temperature variation in Central Greenland 70,000 years ago
Variations in the 29N2/28N2 ratio of air bubbles trapped in polar ice cores and their relation to variations of the 18O/16O of the ice allow past surface temperature variations and ice age–gas age differences to be determined. High-resolution measurements of29N2/28N2 in Dansgaard-Oeschger event 19 (...
Published in: | Science |
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Main Authors: | , , , |
Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
Language: | English |
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American Association for the Advancement of Science
1999
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Online Access: | https://boris.unibe.ch/158271/1/lang99sci.pdf https://boris.unibe.ch/158271/ |
Summary: | Variations in the 29N2/28N2 ratio of air bubbles trapped in polar ice cores and their relation to variations of the 18O/16O of the ice allow past surface temperature variations and ice age–gas age differences to be determined. High-resolution measurements of29N2/28N2 in Dansgaard-Oeschger event 19 (around 70,000 years before the present) in ice from Central Greenland show that at the beginning of the event, the ice age–gas age difference was 1090 ± 100 years. With the use of a combined firn densification, temperature, and gas diffusion model, the δ18Oice-temperature coefficient α was determined to be 0.42 ± 0.05 per mil per kelvin. This coefficient implies a mean surface temperature change of 16.0 kelvin (between 14.3 and 18.1 kelvin), which differs substantially from values derived from borehole temperatures and modern spatial δ18Oice–surface temperature correlations. |
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