Vostok Ice Core N2O Isotope Data: Readme file
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              World Data Center for Paleoclimatology, Boulder
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                   NOAA Paleoclimatology Program
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NOTE: PLEASE CITE ORIGINAL REFERENCE WHEN USING THIS DATA!!!!!

NAME OF DATA SET: Vostok Ice Core N2O Isotope Data
LAST UPDATE: 10/2001 (Original receipt by WDC Paleo)

CONTRIBUTORS: Todd Sowers, Pennsylvania State University

IGBP PAGES/WDCA CONTRIBUTION SERIES NUMBER: 2002-003

SUGGESTED DATA CITATION: Sowers, T.A., 2002,
Vostok Ice Core N2O Isotope Data, 
IGBP PAGES/World Data Center for Paleoclimatology 
Data Contribution Series #2002-003. 
NOAA/NGDC Paleoclimatology Program, Boulder CO, USA. 

ORIGINAL REFERENCE:  Sowers, T.A., 2001, The N2O record 
spanning the penultimate deglaciation from the Vostok ice core,
Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres, 
Vol. 106, No. D23, p. 31,903,  Dec. 16, 2001.
 

FUNDING SOURCE: US National Science Foundation, Office of Polar Programs 
(Grant#  NSF/OPP 95-26556 to Todd Sowers/PSU) 

GEOGRAPHIC REGION: Antarctica

PERIOD OF RECORD: 158-93 KYrBP

LIST OF FILES: Readme_Vostok_N2O.txt (this file),
Vostok_N2O_iso.xls (Microsoft Excel format)
Vostok_N2O_iso.txt (ASCII text format) 
                

DESCRIPTION: Vostok Ice Core N2O Isotope Data

Latitude 78o 28' S, 
Longitude 106o 48' E 
Elevation : 3488 masl 

Variable names :  Depth; Gas Age; [N2O], d15N of N2O, d18O of N2O 

Variable units   (meters below surface), (kyears before present),  (ppbV), 
(permil with respect to atmospheric N2), (permil with respect to SMOW) 

Data precision (± 0.1m), (± 5,000 years), (±5ppb), (± 0.8 permil), (±2 permil)