High resolution, continous, carbon monoxide records from Greenland ice cores

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We present high-resolution measurements of CO mixing ratios from ice cores drilled at five different sites on the Greenland ice sheet. An optical-feedback cavity-enhanced absorption spectrometer (OF-CEAS) was coupled with continuous melter systems and operated during four analytical campaigns conducted between 2013 and 2019 at the Desert Research Institute (DRI, USA) and the Institut des Géoscience de l'Environnement (IGE, France). The CFA-based CO measurements exhibit excellent external precision (ranging from 3.3 to 6.6 ppbv, 1 sigma) and achieve consistently low blanks (ranging from 4.1 +/- 1.2 to 12.6 +/- 4.4 ppbv), enabling paleoatmospheric interpretations. Consistent baseline CO records from four Greenlandic sites (PLACE, D4, NGRIP, and NEEM) are combined to produce a multisite average ice core reconstruction of past atmospheric CO for the Northern Hemisphere high latitudes, covering the period from 1700 to 1957 CE. Such a reconstruction should be taken as an upper bound of past atmospheric CO abundance.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.941920
Related Identifier References https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-18-631-2022
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Creator Faïn, Xavier ORCID logo; Rhodes, Rachael H ORCID logo; Place, Philip ORCID logo; Petrenko, Vasilii V ORCID logo; Fourteau, Kévin ORCID logo; Chellman, Nathan J; Crosier, Edward; McConnell, Joseph R ORCID logo; Brook, Edward J; Blunier, Thomas ORCID logo; Legrand, Michel; Chappellaz, Jérôme A
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2022
Funding Reference Agence Nationale de la Recherche https://doi.org/10.13039/501100001665 Crossref Funder ID 07-VULN-09-001 North Greenland Eemian Ice Drilling; Agence Nationale de la Recherche https://doi.org/10.13039/501100001665 Crossref Funder ID 10-RPDOC-002-01 COCLICO; European Commission https://doi.org/10.13039/501100000780 Crossref Funder ID 291062 ICE and LASER; European Commission https://doi.org/10.13039/501100000780 Crossref Funder ID ENV-2010/265148 PEGASOS; Institut Polaire Français Paul Émile Victor https://doi.org/10.13039/501100004796 Crossref Funder ID 1159 GREEN-CO; National Science Foundation https://doi.org/10.13039/100000001 Crossref Funder ID 0221515 Development of High-Resolution, Multi-Century Records of Trace Element Deposition in West-Central Greenland Using ICP-MS; National Science Foundation https://doi.org/10.13039/100000001 Crossref Funder ID 0909541 https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0909541 Biomass Burning, Dust, Sea Salt, Volcanic & Pollution Aerosols in the Arctic during the Last 2 Millennia: High Resolution Aerosol Records from NEEM & an Aray of Archived Ic; National Science Foundation https://doi.org/10.13039/100000001 Crossref Funder ID 0968391 International Collaboration and Education in Ice Core Science (ICE-ICS); National Science Foundation https://doi.org/10.13039/100000001 Crossref Funder ID 1204176 https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1204176 Collaborative Research: Continuous Records of Greenhouse Gases and Aerosol Deposition During the Holocene: Testing the Fidelity of New Methods for Reconstructing Atmospheric Change; National Science Foundation https://doi.org/10.13039/100000001 Crossref Funder ID 1406219 Collaborative Research: Reconstruction of Carbon Monoxide in the Pre-Industrial Arctic Atmosphere from Ice Cores at Summit, Greenland; National Science Foundation https://doi.org/10.13039/100000001 Crossref Funder ID 1406236 Collaborative Research: Reconstruction of Carbon Monoxide in the Pre-Industrial Arctic Atmosphere from Ice Cores at Summit, Greenland; National Science Foundation https://doi.org/10.13039/100000001 Crossref Funder ID 2015-869123 Reconstruction of Carbon Monoxide in the Pre-Industrial Arctic Atmosphere from Ice Cores at Summit, Greenland
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Resource Type Bundled Publication of Datasets; Collection
Format application/zip
Size 7 datasets
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (-51.060W, 71.400S, -33.880E, 78.030N)