Guillevic, M.; Bazin, L.; Landais, A.; Kindler, Philippe; Orsi, A.; Masson-Delmotte, V.; Blunier, T.; Buchardt, S. L.; Capron, E.; Leuenberger, Markus; Martinerie, P.; Prié, F.; Vinther, B. M. (2013). Spatial gradients of temperature, accumulation and delta18O-ice in Greenland over a series of Dansgaard-Oeschger events. Climate of the past, 9(3), pp. 1029-1051. Copernicus Publications 10.5194/cp-9-1029-2013
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Air and water stable isotope measurements from four Greenland deep ice cores (GRIP, GISP2, NGRIP and NEEM) are investigated over a series of Dansgaard–Oeschger events (DO 8, 9 and 10), which are representative of glacial millennial scale variability. Combined with firn modeling, air isotope data allow us to quantify abrupt temperature increases for each drill site (1σ = 0.6 °C for NEEM, GRIP and GISP2, 1.5 °C for NGRIP). Our data show that the magnitude of stadial–interstadial temperature increase is up to 2 °C larger in central and North Greenland than in northwest Greenland: i.e., for DO 8, a magnitude of +8.8 °C is inferred, which is significantly smaller than the +11.1 °C inferred at GISP2. The same spatial pattern is seen for accumulation increases. This pattern is coherent with climate simulations in response to reduced sea-ice extent in the Nordic seas. The temporal water isotope (δ18O)–temperature relationship varies between 0.3 and 0.6 (±0.08) ‰ °C−1 and is systematically larger at NEEM, possibly due to limited changes in precipitation seasonality compared to GISP2, GRIP or NGRIP. The gas age−ice age difference of warming events represented in water and air isotopes can only be modeled when assuming a 26% (NGRIP) to 40% (GRIP) lower accumulation than that derived from a Dansgaard–Johnsen ice flow model.
Item Type: |
Journal Article (Original Article) |
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Division/Institute: |
10 Strategic Research Centers > Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research (OCCR) 08 Faculty of Science > Physics Institute > Climate and Environmental Physics 08 Faculty of Science > Physics Institute |
UniBE Contributor: |
Kindler, Philippe, Leuenberger, Markus |
Subjects: |
500 Science > 530 Physics 500 Science > 550 Earth sciences & geology |
ISSN: |
1814-9324 |
Publisher: |
Copernicus Publications |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Monika Wälti-Stampfli |
Date Deposited: |
21 May 2014 11:02 |
Last Modified: |
02 Mar 2023 23:24 |
Publisher DOI: |
10.5194/cp-9-1029-2013 |
BORIS DOI: |
10.7892/boris.51768 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/51768 |