An 800-year high-resolution black carbon ice core record from Lomonosovfonna, Svalbard

Osmont, Dimitri; Wendl, Isabel A.; Schmidely, Loïc; Sigl, Michael; Vega, Carmen P.; Isaksson, Elisabeth; Schwikowski, Margit

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-12777-2018

Articles | Volume 18, issue 17

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-12777-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-12777-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 18, issue 17

Research article

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06 Sep 2018

Research article |

| 06 Sep 2018

An 800-year high-resolution black carbon ice core record from Lomonosovfonna, Svalbard

Dimitri Osmont, Isabel A. Wendl, Loïc Schmidely, Michael Sigl, Carmen P. Vega, Elisabeth Isaksson, and Margit Schwikowski

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RC1: 'Reviewer's comments', Mauro Rubino, 14 May 2018
RC2: 'Review comment from Legrand M', Legrand Michel, 17 May 2018
RC3: 'Review Comment to Dimitri Osmont et al.', Anonymous Referee #2, 22 May 2018
AC1: 'Combined response to RC1, RC2 and RC3', Dimitri Osmont, 24 Jul 2018

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ED: Publish as is (08 Aug 2018) by Aurélien Dommergue

AR by Dimitri Osmont on behalf of the Authors (17 Aug 2018)

Short summary

This study presents the first long-term and high-resolution refractory black carbon (rBC) ice core record from Svalbard, spanning the last 800 years. Our results show that rBC has had a predominant anthropogenic origin since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution in Europe and that rBC concentrations have been declining in the last 40 years. We discuss the impact of 20th century snowmelt on our record. We reconstruct biomass burning trends prior to 1800 by using a multi-proxy approach.