Abstract:
The Vostok Ice Core Data is one of the primary Antarctic Paleoclimate Datasets. It covers the time from the present back to 422,000 years before the present. It is available from the World Data Center - Paleoclimatology). The Vostok Ice Core Data consists of:
Methane: Contains depth, age, and methane (CH4) concentration from the Barnola et ... al. (1991) model and from Chappellaz et al. (1990).
Carbon Dioxide: Contains depth, age, carbon dioxide (CO2) concentration from Barnola et al., 1987, Chappellaz et al, 1990.
Dust Flux: Contains depth, dust volume concentration (in 10-9cm3 of dust per g of snow). Insoluble microparticles published in Nature paper (Petit et al., 1990)
Dust Concentrations: Contains dust volume concentration as published by Petit et al. (1990) and Jouzel et al. (1993). Contains number of dust particles larger than 0.8 m per g of ice and deuterium measurements.
Stable isotopes and temperature reconstructions: Contains stable isotopes of hydrogen (deuterium), oxygen, nitrogen and temperature reconstructions from Jouzel et al. (1987, 1993, and 1996).
Sodium Concentrations: Contains sodium ion concentrations from Legrand et al.(1988),down to 2080 m.
Oxygen Isotope: d18o oxygen data published in Sowers et al.(1993) and Jouzel et al.(1993).
Nitrous Oxide (N2O): Trapped gas bubbles record the history of atmospheric N2O concentrations plus d15N and18O in Sowers (2001).
In-situ 14C data: 14C concentrations in Vostok ice in Lal et al. (2001)
Timescales: Different timescales used for interpretation of Vostok ice core records reported in ky BP. See:
Institut Pierre Simon Laplace
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement
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Publications/References
Petit J.R., Jouzel J., Raynaud D., Barkov N.I., Barnola J.M., Basile I., Bender M., Chappellaz J., Davis J., Delaygue G., Delmotte M., Kotlyakov V.M., Legrand M., Lipenkov V., Lorius C., Pepin L., Ritz C., Saltzman E., Stievenard M., 1999, Climate and Atmospheric History of the Past 420,000 years from the Vostok Ice Core, Antarctica, Nature, 399, pp.429-436.
... Barnola, J.M., Raynaud, D., Korotkevich, Y.S. & Lorius, C., 1987. Vostok ice core provides 160,000-year record of atmospheric CO2. Nature, 329, 408-414.
Barnola, J.M., Pimienta, P., Raynaud, D. & Korotkevich, Y.S., 1991. CO2 climate relationship as deduced from the Vostok ice core: a re-examination based on new measurements and on a re-evaluation of the air dating. Tellus, 43B, 83-91.
Brook, E.J., Kurz, M.D., Curtice, J., and Cowburn, S., 2000, Accretion of Interplantary Dust in Polar Ice, Geophysical Research Letters, Vol. 27, No. 19, p. 3145.
Chappellaz, J., Barnola, J.-M., Raynaud, D., Korotkevich, Y.S. & Lorius, C. 1990. Ice-core record of atmospheric methane over the past 160,000 years. Nature, 345, 127-131.
Jouzel, J., C. Lorius, J. R. Petit, C. Genthon, N. I. Barkov, V. M. Kotlyakov and V. M. Petrov, Vostok ice core: a continuous isotope temperature record over the last climatic cycle (160,000 years), Nature, 329, 1987, 402-408.
Jouzel, J., N. I. Barkov, J. M. Barnola, M. Bender, J. Chappelaz, C. Genthon, V. M. Kotlyakov, V. Lipenkov, C. Lorius, J. R. Petit, D. Raynaud, G. Raisbeck, C. Ritz, T. Sowers, M. Stievenard, F. Yiou and P. Yiou, Extending the Vostok ice-core record of paleoclimate to the penultimate glacial period, Nature, 364, 1993, 407-412.
Jouzel, J., C. Waelbroeck, B. Malaiz, M. Bender, J. R. Petit, N. I. Barkov, J. M. Barnola, T. King, V. M. Kotlyakov, V. Lipenkov, C. Lorius, D. Raynaud, C. Ritz and T. Sowers, Climatic interpretation of the recently extended Vostok ice records, Clim.Dyn., 12(8), 513-521.
C. Lorius, J. Jouzel, C. Ritz, L. Merlivat, N. I. Barkov, Y. S. Korotkevitch and V. M. Kotlyakov, A 150,000-year climatic record from Antarctic ice, Nature, 316, 1985, 591-596.
Petit, J.R., L. Mounier, J. Jouzel, Y. Korotkevitch, V. Kotlyakov and C. Lorius, Paleoclimatological implications of the Vostok core dust record, Nature, 343, 1990, 56-58.
Ritz, C. Un modele thermo-mecanique d'evolution pour le bassin glaciaire Antarctique Vostok-Glacier Byrd: sensibilite aux valeurs des parametres mal connus (Univ. de Grenoble, 1992).
Sowers, T., M. Bender, L. D. Labeyrie, J. Jouzel, D. Raynaud, D. Martinson and Y. S. Korotkevich, 135 000 year Vostok - SPECMAP common temporal framework., Paleoceanogr., 8, 1993, p. 737-766.
Waelbroeck, C., J. Jouzel, L. Labeyrie, C. Lorius, M. Labracherie, M. Stievenard and N. I. Barkov, Comparing the Vostok ice deuterium record and series from Southern Ocean core MD 88-770 over the last two glacial-interglacial cycles, Clim. Dyn., 12, 1995, 113 - 123.
A bibliography of papers resulting from ice core studies and derivative uses of these data would be extensive. One review cites 345 ice core research papers:
P. D. Mackinnon, compiler, 'Ice Cores.' Glaciological Data, May 1980, GD-8, 139 p. ( Available from World Data Center for Glaciology (Snow and Ice), Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309 )
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