The Ortles ice cores: uncovering an extended climate archive from the Eastern Alps

During the last half century, oxygen and hydrogen stable isotope content of ice cores has been extensively used for air temperature reconstructions. The most suitable glaciers of the Alpine area, most exclusively in the Western Alps, havebeen utilizedfor icecoring formore thanfour decades.The paleoc...

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Main Authors: DREOSSI, GIULIANO, BARBANTE, Carlo, BERTÒ, MICHELE, GABRIELI, Jacopo, Spolaor, Andrea, STENNI, Barbara, Carturan, Luca, De Blasi, Fabrizio, Seppi, Roberto, Zanoner, Thomas
Other Authors: Dreossi, Giuliano, Barbante, Carlo, Bertò, Michele, Gabrieli, Jacopo, Stenni, Barbara
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Language:English
Published: Geophysical Research Abstracts 2017
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spelling ftuniveneziairis:oai:iris.unive.it:10278/3686873 2024-01-28T10:06:28+01:00 The Ortles ice cores: uncovering an extended climate archive from the Eastern Alps DREOSSI, GIULIANO BARBANTE, Carlo BERTÒ, MICHELE GABRIELI, Jacopo Spolaor, Andrea STENNI, Barbara Carturan, Luca De Blasi, Fabrizio Seppi, Roberto Zanoner, Thomas Dreossi, Giuliano Barbante, Carlo Bertò, Michele Carturan, Luca De Blasi, Fabrizio Gabrieli, Jacopo Seppi, Roberto Spolaor, Andrea Stenni, Barbara Zanoner, Thomas 2017 http://hdl.handle.net/10278/3686873 eng eng Geophysical Research Abstracts ispartofbook:EGU General Assembly 2017 EGU General Assembly 2017 http://hdl.handle.net/10278/3686873 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Settore GEO/08 - Geochimica e Vulcanologia info:eu-repo/semantics/conferenceObject 2017 ftuniveneziairis 2024-01-03T17:47:18Z During the last half century, oxygen and hydrogen stable isotope content of ice cores has been extensively used for air temperature reconstructions. The most suitable glaciers of the Alpine area, most exclusively in the Western Alps, havebeen utilizedfor icecoring formore thanfour decades.The paleoclimatic potential of theEastern Alps isstilllargelyunexploitedandwasscarcelyutilizedinthepastmainlybecauseofthelowerelevation(comparedto Western Alps) and hence the difficulty to find glaciers in cold conditions. The warming temperature trend appears to be particularly pronounced in the Alps, threatening the preservation of the glaciated areas and creating a sense of urgency in retrieving climatic archives before it is too late. In autumn 2011, four deep cores were drilled on Mt Ortles, South Tyrol, Italy, at 3859 m a.s.l. An extensive reconstructed temperature record for the Ortles summit, based on the surrounding meteorological station data, is available for the last 150 years, while an automatic weather station had been operating from 2011 to 2015 in proximity of the drilling site. The new ice core chronology, based on 210Pb, tritium, beta emissions analysis and 14C measurements of the particulate organic carbon, indicates that the bottom ice is 7000 years old, making it the second most extended glaciological archive ever retrieved in the Alps. The three equally long ice cores have been analyzed for oxygen and hydrogen stable isotopes throughout their length, and the goal is to create an Ortles stacked record for d18O and dD and compare the isotopic data to instrumental temperatures and to other Alpine records. Since 2008, several snow pits were dug in proximity of the drilling site during summer, when the temperature can oftenexceedthemeltingpoint.Theisotopicprofilesofthe2015snowpit,dugattheendofanexceptionallywarm summer,showhowtheisotopesignalisnowaffectedbythepost-depositionalprocessesthathaveoccurredduring that summer. Conference Object ice core Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia: ARCA (Archivio Istituzionale della Ricerca)
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DREOSSI, GIULIANO
BARBANTE, Carlo
BERTÒ, MICHELE
GABRIELI, Jacopo
Spolaor, Andrea
STENNI, Barbara
Carturan, Luca
De Blasi, Fabrizio
Seppi, Roberto
Zanoner, Thomas
The Ortles ice cores: uncovering an extended climate archive from the Eastern Alps
topic_facet Settore GEO/08 - Geochimica e Vulcanologia
description During the last half century, oxygen and hydrogen stable isotope content of ice cores has been extensively used for air temperature reconstructions. The most suitable glaciers of the Alpine area, most exclusively in the Western Alps, havebeen utilizedfor icecoring formore thanfour decades.The paleoclimatic potential of theEastern Alps isstilllargelyunexploitedandwasscarcelyutilizedinthepastmainlybecauseofthelowerelevation(comparedto Western Alps) and hence the difficulty to find glaciers in cold conditions. The warming temperature trend appears to be particularly pronounced in the Alps, threatening the preservation of the glaciated areas and creating a sense of urgency in retrieving climatic archives before it is too late. In autumn 2011, four deep cores were drilled on Mt Ortles, South Tyrol, Italy, at 3859 m a.s.l. An extensive reconstructed temperature record for the Ortles summit, based on the surrounding meteorological station data, is available for the last 150 years, while an automatic weather station had been operating from 2011 to 2015 in proximity of the drilling site. The new ice core chronology, based on 210Pb, tritium, beta emissions analysis and 14C measurements of the particulate organic carbon, indicates that the bottom ice is 7000 years old, making it the second most extended glaciological archive ever retrieved in the Alps. The three equally long ice cores have been analyzed for oxygen and hydrogen stable isotopes throughout their length, and the goal is to create an Ortles stacked record for d18O and dD and compare the isotopic data to instrumental temperatures and to other Alpine records. Since 2008, several snow pits were dug in proximity of the drilling site during summer, when the temperature can oftenexceedthemeltingpoint.Theisotopicprofilesofthe2015snowpit,dugattheendofanexceptionallywarm summer,showhowtheisotopesignalisnowaffectedbythepost-depositionalprocessesthathaveoccurredduring that summer.
author2 Dreossi, Giuliano
Barbante, Carlo
Bertò, Michele
Carturan, Luca
De Blasi, Fabrizio
Gabrieli, Jacopo
Seppi, Roberto
Spolaor, Andrea
Stenni, Barbara
Zanoner, Thomas
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author DREOSSI, GIULIANO
BARBANTE, Carlo
BERTÒ, MICHELE
GABRIELI, Jacopo
Spolaor, Andrea
STENNI, Barbara
Carturan, Luca
De Blasi, Fabrizio
Seppi, Roberto
Zanoner, Thomas
author_facet DREOSSI, GIULIANO
BARBANTE, Carlo
BERTÒ, MICHELE
GABRIELI, Jacopo
Spolaor, Andrea
STENNI, Barbara
Carturan, Luca
De Blasi, Fabrizio
Seppi, Roberto
Zanoner, Thomas
author_sort DREOSSI, GIULIANO
title The Ortles ice cores: uncovering an extended climate archive from the Eastern Alps
title_short The Ortles ice cores: uncovering an extended climate archive from the Eastern Alps
title_full The Ortles ice cores: uncovering an extended climate archive from the Eastern Alps
title_fullStr The Ortles ice cores: uncovering an extended climate archive from the Eastern Alps
title_full_unstemmed The Ortles ice cores: uncovering an extended climate archive from the Eastern Alps
title_sort ortles ice cores: uncovering an extended climate archive from the eastern alps
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