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Titel |
High-resolution records of the beryllium-10 solar activity proxy in ice from Law Dome, East Antarctica: measurement, reproducibility and principal trends |
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J. B. Pedro, A. M. Smith, K. J. Simon, T. D. Ommen, M. A. J. Curran |
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Artikel
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Sprache |
Englisch
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1814-9324
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Erschienen |
In: Climate of the Past ; 7, no. 3 ; Nr. 7, no. 3 (2011-07-12), S.707-721 |
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250004606
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Publikation (Nr.) |
copernicus.org/cp-7-707-2011.pdf |
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Zusammenfassung |
Three near-monthly resolution 10Be records are presented from
the Dome Summit South (DSS) ice core site, Law Dome, East
Antarctica. The chemical preparation and Accelerator Mass
Spectrometer (AMS) measurement of these records is described. The
reproducibility of 10Be records at DSS is assessed through
intercomparison of the ice core data with data from two previously
published and contemporaneous snow pits. We find generally good
agreement between the five records, comparable to that observed
between other trace chemical records from the site. This result
allays concerns raised by a previous Antarctic study
(Moraal et al., 2005) about poor reproducibility of ice core 10Be
records. A single composite series is constructed from the three ice
cores providing a monthly-resolved record of 10Be
concentrations at DSS over the past decade (1999 to 2009). To our
knowledge, this is the first published ice core data spanning the
recent exceptional solar minimum of solar cycle 23. 10Be
concentrations are significantly correlated to the cosmic ray flux
recorded by the McMurdo neutron monitor (rxy = 0.64, with
95 % CI of 0.53 to 0.71), suggesting that solar modulation of the
atmospheric production rate may explain up to ~40 % of the
variance in 10Be concentrations at DSS. Sharp concentration
peaks occur in most years during the summer-to-autumn, possibly
caused by stratospheric incursions. Our results underscore the
presence of both production and meteorological signals in ice core
10Be data. |
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