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Summary
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:

For more details on the data in each file see:
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/icecore/antarctica/vostok/vostok.html

NOTE: PLEASE CITE ORIGINAL REFERENCES WHEN USING THIS DATA!

Geographic Coverage Spatial coordinates   

N: -79.0

S: -79.0

E: -107.0

W: -107.0

Data Set Citation

Dataset Creator: Petit J.R., et al. Dataset Title: Vostok Ice Core Data for 420,000 Years Dataset Series Name: IGBP PAGES/WDC Paleoclimatology Contribution #92-018 Dataset Release Date: 2001 Dataset Release Place: Boulder, CO Dataset Publisher: IGBP PAGES/World Data Center for Paleoclimatology Issue Identification: Data Contribution Series #2001-076 Online Resource: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/icecore/antarctica/vostok/vostok.html

Paleo Temporal Coverage

Paleo Start Date: 422,000 ybp Paleo Stop Date: 0 ybp Chrono Unit: PHANEROZOIC  >  CENOZOIC  >  QUATERNARY Chrono Unit: PHANEROZOIC  >  CENOZOIC  >  QUATERNARY  >  PLEISTOCENE

Location Keywords

CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR > Antarctica

Science Keywords

ATMOSPHERE > AEROSOLS > DUST/ASH/SMOKE ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY > CARBON AND HYDROCARBON COMPOUNDS > CARBON DIOXIDE ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY > CARBON AND HYDROCARBON COMPOUNDS > METHANE PALEOCLIMATE > ICE CORE RECORDS > CARBON DIOXIDE PALEOCLIMATE > ICE CORE RECORDS > ICE CORE AIR BUBBLES PALEOCLIMATE > ICE CORE RECORDS > ISOTOPES PALEOCLIMATE > ICE CORE RECORDS > METHANE PALEOCLIMATE > ICE CORE RECORDS > VOLCANIC DEPOSITS PALEOCLIMATE > ICE CORE RECORDS > PARTICULATE MATTER PALEOCLIMATE > ICE CORE RECORDS > NITROUS OXIDE PALEOCLIMATE > PALEOCLIMATE RECONSTRUCTIONS > AIR TEMPERATURE RECONSTRUCTION

ISO Topic Category

CLIMATOLOGY/METEOROLOGY/ATMOSPHERE GEOSCIENTIFIC INFORMATION

Platform

GROUND STATIONS

Project

IGBP > International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme PAGES > Past Global Changes, IGBP DODS > Distributed Oceanographic Data System ESIP > Earth Science Information Partners Program OPENDAP > Open-source Project for a Network Data Access Protocol

Ancillary Keywords

ANTARCTICA CARBON DIOXIDE CH4 CLIMATE CHANGE CO2 DEUTERIUM CONCENTRATIONS CORE DUST ICE ICE CAP ICE CORE ICE CORES METHANE OXYGEN ISOTOPES PALEOCLIMATE PALEOENVIRONMENT PLEISTOCENE QUATERNARY SNOW TEMPERATURE RECONSTRUCTIONS

Data Set Progress

IN WORK

Originating Center

NOAA/NESDIS/NGDC

Data Center

Climate Data Library, International Research Institute for Climate Prediction, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University Data Center URL: http://ingrid.ldeo.columbia.edu/ Dataset ID: VOSTOK Data Center Personnel Name: BENNO BLUMENTHAL Phone: (845) 680-4450 Fax: (845) 680-4864 Email: benno at iri.ldeo.columbia.edu Contact Address: Data Library Manager International Research Institute for Climate Prediction Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Columbia University City: Palisades Province or State: NY Postal Code: 10964-8000 Country: USA World Data Center for Paleoclimatology, Boulder Data Center URL: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/ Data Center Personnel Name: WDC/PALEOCLIMATOLOGY, BOULDER Phone: +1 (303) 497-6160 Fax: +1 (303) 497-6513 Email: paleo at noaa.gov Contact Address: World Data Center for Paleoclimatology NOAA/NCDC Code E/GCx3 325 Broadway City: Boulder Province or State: CO Postal Code: 80303 Country: USA

Distribution

Distribution Media: online ftp, WWW Distribution Size: 415 KB Distribution Format: ASCII Fees: None

Personnel

J. R. PETIT Role: INVESTIGATOR Contact Address: Laboratoire de Glaciologie et de Geophysique de l'Environnement Gif-su-Yvette Cedex CNRS-CEA Country: FRANCE DOMINIQUE RAYNAUD Role: INVESTIGATOR Phone: 76-42-58-72 Contact Address: Laboratoire de Glaciologie et Geophysique de l''Environnement 54 Rue Molieres City: St. Martin d'Heres Cedex Postal Code: 38402 Country: FRANCE N. I. BARKOV Role: INVESTIGATOR Contact Address: Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute Beringa Street 38 City: St. Petersburg Postal Code: 199226 Country: Russia JEAN-MARC BARNOLA Role: INVESTIGATOR Contact Address: Laboratoire de Glaciologie et de Geophysique de l''Environnement City: Saint Martin d''Heres Cedex Postal Code: 38402 Country: FRANCE MICHAEL LESLIE BENDER Role: INVESTIGATOR Phone: 609 258-2936 Fax: 609 258 0796 Email: bender at princeton.edu Contact Address: Department of Geosciences Princeton University M48 Guyot Hall City: Princeton Province or State: NJ Postal Code: 08544 Country: USA VLADIMIR M. KOTLYAKOV Role: INVESTIGATOR Phone: 7-095-121-8362 Email: kun at mikun.msk.su Contact Address: Russian Academy of Sciences Institute of Geography Staromonetny pereulok 29 City: Moscow Postal Code: 109017 Country: Russia C. LORIUS Role: INVESTIGATOR Contact Address: Laboratoire de Glaciologie et de Geophysique de l'Environnement CNRS-CEA 91198 Gif-su-Yvette Cedex Country: France J. CHAPELLAZ Role: INVESTIGATOR Contact Address: Laboratoire de Glaciologie et de Geophysique de l''Environnement City: Saint Martin d''Heres Cedex Postal Code: 38402 Country: France JEAN JOUZEL Role: INVESTIGATOR Contact Address: Institut Pierre Simon Laplace Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement CEA-CNRS 1572 CE Saclay Orme des Merisiers City: Gif-sur-Yvette Postal Code: 91191 Country: France

Related URL

Link: GET DATA Description: Vostok Ice Core data files at WDC Paleoclimatology Link: GET DATA Description: Vostok ice core data at LDEO/IRI Link: GET DATA Description: World Data Centers Ice Core Gateway Link: GET DATA Description: DODS Base URL to Vostok ice core data at LDEO/IRI Link: GET DATA Description: Vostok ice core stable isotope and temperature reconstruction data Link: GET DATA Description: Vostok ice core CO2 data Link: GET DATA Description: Vostok ice core methane (CH4) data Link: GET DATA Description: Vostok ice core nitrous oxide (N2O) data Link: GET DATA Description: Vostok ice core dust flux and dust concentrations data Link: GET DATA Description: Vostok ice core sodium (Na+) concentration data Link: GET DATA Description: Vostok in-situ C14 (Carbon-14) data Link: GET DATA Description: Vostok ice core depth and timescales data

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.
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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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Last DIF Revision Date: 2005-10-04

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