Articles | Volume 16, issue 13
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-8521-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-8521-2016
Research article
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13 Jul 2016
Research article |  | 13 Jul 2016

Continuous measurements of isotopic composition of water vapour on the East Antarctic Plateau

Mathieu Casado, Amaelle Landais, Valérie Masson-Delmotte, Christophe Genthon, Erik Kerstel, Samir Kassi, Laurent Arnaud, Ghislain Picard, Frederic Prie, Olivier Cattani, Hans-Christian Steen-Larsen, Etienne Vignon, and Peter Cermak

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Climatic conditions in Concordia are very cold (−55 °C in average) and very dry, imposing difficult conditions to measure the water vapour isotopic composition. New developments in infrared spectroscopy enable now the measurement of isotopic composition in water vapour traces (down to 20 ppmv). Here we present the results results of a first campaign of measurement of isotopic composition of water vapour in Concordia, the site where the 800 000 years long ice core was drilled.
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