Environmental information from the Svalbard ice core for the past 800 years

• Main Author: Kekonen, T. (Teija)
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: University of Oulu 2006
• Subjects: Arctic; anions; cations; ions; paleoclimate; particles; volcanic eruption; Laki; Lomonosovfonna; Svalbard; Ice cap; ice core; Iceland
• Online Access: http://urn.fi/urn:isbn:9514281853

Abstract Major water soluble ions (Cl-, NO3-, SO42-, CH3SO3-, Na+, K+, NH4+, Mg2+, Ca2+) were determined and the results interpreted from a 121 m long ice core drilled at the summit of the Lomonosovfonna dome, Svalbard. The core covers about the past 800 years. The reliability of anion chemistry for...