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Research article |
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| 06 Sep 2018
An 800-year high-resolution black carbon ice core record from Lomonosovfonna, Svalbard
Dimitri Osmont
Laboratory of Environmental Chemistry, Paul Scherrer Institute, 5232 Villigen, Switzerland
Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, 3012 Bern,
Switzerland
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Bern, 3012 Bern, Switzerland
Isabel A. Wendl
Laboratory of Environmental Chemistry, Paul Scherrer Institute, 5232 Villigen, Switzerland
Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, 3012 Bern,
Switzerland
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Bern, 3012 Bern, Switzerland
Loïc Schmidely
Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, 3012 Bern,
Switzerland
Climate and Environmental Physics, University of Bern, 3012 Bern, Switzerland
Michael Sigl
Laboratory of Environmental Chemistry, Paul Scherrer Institute, 5232 Villigen, Switzerland
Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, 3012 Bern,
Switzerland
Carmen P. Vega
Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University, 752 36 Uppsala, Sweden
now at: School of Physics and Centre for Geophysical Research, University of Costa Rica, 11501-2060, San José, Costa Rica
Elisabeth Isaksson
Norwegian Polar Institute, Fram Centre, 9296 Tromsø, Norway
Margit Schwikowski
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Laboratory of Environmental Chemistry, Paul Scherrer Institute, 5232 Villigen, Switzerland
Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, 3012 Bern,
Switzerland
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Bern, 3012 Bern, Switzerland
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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.
This study presents the first long-term and high-resolution refractory black carbon (rBC) ice...
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