# Antarctic Ice Core 155,000 Year CO2 and Gas Stable Isotope Data #----------------------------------------------------------------------- # World Data Service for Paleoclimatology, Boulder # and # NOAA Paleoclimatology Program # National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) #----------------------------------------------------------------------- # # NOTE: Please cite Publication, and Online_Resource and date accessed when using these data. # If there is no publication information, please cite Investigators, Title, and Online_Resource and date accessed. # # Online_Resource: https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/study/19942 # Online_Resource: http://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/icecore/antarctica/eggleston2016edc-iso.txt # # Original_Source_URL: # # Description/Documentation lines begin with # # Data lines have no # # # Archive: Ice core # # Parameter_Keywords: atmospheric gas, instrumental data, carbon isotopes #-------------------- # Contribution_Date # Date: 2016-03-28 #-------------------- # Title # Study_Name: Antarctic Ice Core 155,000 Year CO2 and Gas Stable Isotope Data #-------------------- # Investigators # Investigators: Eggleston, S.; Schmitt, J.; Bereiter, B.; Schneider, R.; Fischer, H. #-------------------- # Description_Notes_and_Keywords # Description: CO2 concentration and atmospheric gas stable isotope (d13CO2 and d15N2) measurements from 3 Antarctic ice cores # (EDC, EDML, Talos Dome) over the last glacial cycle. # Additional data: # Schmitt, J et al. (2012): Measurements of stable carbon isotope ratios of CO2 over the last 24000 years and CO2 concentration measurements on Antarctic ice cores using three different methods. doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.772713 # Schneider, R et al. (2013): A reconstruction of atmospheric carbon dioxide and its stable carbon isotopic composition from the penultimate glacial maximum to the glacial inception. doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.817041 # # Citations: # Bazin, L., et al. (2013), An optimized multi-proxy, multi-site Antarctic ice and gas orbital chronology (AICC2012): 120-800 ka, Clim. Past, 9(4), 1715-1731, doi:10.5194/cp-9-1715-2013. # Bereiter, B., D. Luethi, M. Siegrist, S. Schuepbach, T. F. Stocker, and H. Fischer (2012), Mode change of millennial CO2 variability during the last glacial cycle associated with a bipolar marine carbon seesaw, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 109(25), 9755-9760, doi:10.1073/pnas.1204069109. # Luethi, D., et al. (2010), CO2 and O2/N2 variations in and just below the bubble-clathrate transformation zone of Antarctic ice cores, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 297(1-2), 226-233, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2010.06.023. # Schneider, R. (2011), Quantifying past changes of the global carbon cycle based on d13CO2 measurements in Antarctic ice cores, PhD thesis, Univ. of Bern, Switzerland. # Veres, D., et al. (2013), The Antarctic ice core chronology (AICC2012): An optimized multi-parameter and multi-site dating approach for the last 120 thousand years, Clim. Past, 9(4), 1733-1748, doi:10.5194/cp-9-1733-2013. # #-------------------- # Publication # Authors: Eggleston, S.; Schmitt, J.; Bereiter, B.; Schneider, R.; Fischer, H. # Published_Date_or_Year: 2016-03-24 # Published_Title: Evolution of the stable carbon isotope composition of atmospheric CO2 over the last glacial cycle # Journal_Name: Paleoceanography # Volume: 31 # Edition: # Issue: # Pages: # Report_Number: # DOI: 10.1002/2015PA002874 # Online_Resource: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2015PA002874/full # Full_Citation: # Abstract: We present new d13C measurements of atmospheric CO2 covering the last glacial/interglacial cycle, complementing previous records covering Terminations I and II. Most prominent in the new record is a significant depletion in d13C(atm) of 0.5per mil occurring during marine isotope stage (MIS) 4, followed by an enrichment of the same magnitude at the beginning of MIS 3. Such a significant excursion in the record is otherwise only observed at glacial terminations, suggesting that similar processes were at play, such as changing sea surface temperatures, changes in marine biological export in the Southern Ocean (SO) due to variations in aeolian iron fluxes, changes in the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation, upwelling of deep water in the SO, and long-term trends in terrestrial carbon storage. Based on previous modeling studies, we propose constraints on some of these processes during specific time intervals. The decrease in d13C(atm) at the end of MIS 4 starting approximately 64 kyr B.P. was accompanied by increasing [CO2]. This period is also marked by a decrease in aeolian iron flux to the SO, followed by an increase in SO upwelling during Heinrich event 6, indicating that it is likely that a large amount of d13C-depleted carbon was transferred to the deep oceans previously, i.e., at the onset of MIS 4. Apart from the upwelling event at the end of MIS 4 (and potentially smaller events during Heinrich events in MIS 3), upwelling of deep water in the SO remained reduced until the last glacial termination, whereupon a second pulse of isotopically light carbon was released into the atmosphere. #------------------ # Funding_Agency # Funding_Agency_Name: Swiss National Science Foundation # Grant: #------------------ # Site_Information # Site_Name: EPICA Dome C # Location: Antarctica # Country: # Northernmost_Latitude: -75.100000 # Southernmost_Latitude: -75.100000 # Easternmost_Longitude: 123.350000 # Westernmost_Longitude: 123.350000 # Elevation: 3233.0 m # #------------------ # Data_Collection # Collection_Name: Eggleston2016EDCiso # Earliest_Year: 149449 # Most_Recent_Year: 43424 # Time_Unit: Cal. year BP # Core_Length: 3270.2 m #------------------ # Chronology_Information # Chronology: AICC2012 (Bazin et al., 2013; Veres et al., 2013) # #---------------- # Variables # # Data variables follow are preceded by "##" in columns one and two. # Data line variables format: Variables list, one per line, shortname-tab-longname-tab-longname components (9 components: what, material, error, units, seasonality, archive, detail, method, C or N for Character or Numeric data) # ## depth_m depth,,,m,,,measured from top of core,,N ## age_gas_calBP age gas, , , calendar years before present (1950AD), , , AICC2012 age scale, ,N ## d13CO2 delta13C, carbon dioxide, , per mil, ,ice cores, corrected for gravitational fractionation, ,N ## d13CO2std delta13C standard deviation, carbon dioxide, , per mil, ,ice cores, , ,N ## d15N2 delta15N2,air,,permil,,,,,N ## d15N2std d15N2 standard deviation of replicate measurements,air,,permil,,,,,N ## numanal number of analyses,,,number of data points averaged,,,,N ## flag error flag,,,,,,0 = good; 1 = error,,N ## notes notes - reference,,,,,,1 = this study (sublimation); 2 = Schneider (2011) (sublimation),,N # #---------------- # Data: # Data lines follow (have no #) # Data line format - tab-delimited text, variable short name as header # Missing Values: nan # depth_m age_gas_calBP d13CO2 d13CO2std d15N2 d15N2std numanal flag notes 809.455 43424 -6.33 0.014 0.38 0.017 2 1 1 826.425 44726 -6.71 0.064 0.37 0.02 3 0 1 831.415 45177 -6.69 nan 0.4 nan 1 0 1 836.345 45594 -6.56 nan 0.38 nan 1 0 1 847.985 46675 -6.68 nan 0.42 nan 1 0 1 914.075 53352 -6.9 nan 0.41 nan 1 0 1 1062.575 68540 -6.54 nan 0.43 nan 1 0 1 1090.075 71327 -6.63 nan 0.42 nan 1 0 1 1106.575 72652 -6.33 nan 0.42 nan 1 0 1 1222.075 83133 -6.53 nan 0.44 nan 1 0 1 1244.075 84608 -6.68 nan 0.43 nan 1 0 1 1279.075 87932 -6.41 nan 0.37 nan 1 0 1 1282.495 88403 -6.42 nan 0.39 nan 1 0 1 1309.995 91184 -6.28 nan 0.4 nan 1 0 1 1326.495 92900 -6.45 nan 0.4 nan 1 0 1 1359.575 95527 -6.75 nan 0.39 nan 1 0 1 1370.575 96463 -6.61 nan 0.42 nan 1 0 1 1409 99996 -6.51 0.006 0.43 0.007 3 0 1 1419.55 100776 -6.55 nan 0.43 nan 1 0 1 1463.55 105228 -6.67 nan 0.44 nan 1 0 1 1853.835 149449 -6.76 nan 0.42 nan 1 0 1