Two EPICA ice cores revealing 800,000 years of climate history: An
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Two EPICA ice cores revealing 800,000 years of climate history: An
Two EPICA ice cores revealing 800,000 years of climate history: An overview. Hans Oerter & EPICA team Alfred-Wegener-Institut für Polar- und Meeresforschung in der Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft, Bremerhaven 23. Internationale Polartagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Polarforschung, Münster, 10.-14. März 2008 Neumayer Antarctic Peninsula EPICA-DML, 2774m, >250 ka Kohnen Weddell Sea JARE 3029m, >700 ka Dome F Dyer Pl. B15 Berkner Is. South Pole Siple St. China, planned Dome A Russia, F, US 3700m, 420 ka Vostok Byrd EPICA-DC, Siple D. 3270m, 800 ka Dome C Deep ice cores in Antarctica Law Dome Taylor D. Ross Sea I, F, D, UK Talos D. layout: w. rack, h. oerter, AWI 23. Internationale Polartagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Polarforschung, Münster, 10.-14. März 2008 2 European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica (EPICA) Dronning-Maud-Land Dome C: 68°S Neumayer Ekströmisen W SANAE IV 70°S a rfly H. 500 1000 1500 200 0 25 00 Troll f. up r rd We 72°S 3000 ge ne ve .S ris en 74°S DM L on tf. 05 Kohnen efr Kohnen 76°S Amundsenisen He Brunt Ice Shelf 70°S . Kottas Camp Wasa 72°S U he itsc Kir wa nv R Riiser- Larsen- I se n 17. Jan. 2006 2774 m > 250 ka Novolazerevskaja S DML: Mario Zuchelli SANAE III ea ed 10°E Jutulstraumen ll de 0° im 21. Dec. 2004 3272m ca. 800 ka ( 2x Vostok) 10° W 00 2000 1500 00 10 0 50 Traverse routes: Ice shelf 25 Inland ice, grounded ice U.K. Sweden 00 Sea 30 74°S EPICA comprises two ice cores: Halley km 500 0 Dome C 30°W 20°W 10° W 0° 10°E (75 ° 06.10' S, 123° 23.71‘E, 3233 m; ice 3250 ±25m, -54.5 °C, 25 kg m-2 a-1) Dronning Maud Land (DML, Kohnen) (75 ° 0.10' S, 0° 4.07' E, 2892 m; 10 European nations working together: ice 2782 ±10m, -44.6 °C, 64 kg m-2 a-1) Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom 2000 contour line Germany grounding line Norway Funding by the European Commission and by national contributions. For Germany AWI & DFG 23. Internationale Polartagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Polarforschung, Münster, 10.-14. März 2008 3 Accumulation Antarctica Summit Accumulation Inland ice / Ice sheet Melting Ablation Iceberg calving Iceberg calving max: 4775 m Greenland Ice thickness typical for mean: 2078 m Grounding line Ice shelf Rock subglacial melting 500 - 1000 km Ablation ca. 2000 km Ocean 100 - 700 km grafic: AWI / hans oerter, 2004 Equilibrium line mean: 3080 m mean: 1667 m Ice thickness Schematic Cross Section Through an Ice Sheet Accumulation 23. Internationale Polartagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Polarforschung, Münster, 10.-14. März 2008 4 23. Internationale Polartagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Polarforschung, Münster, 10.-14. März 2008 foto: hans oerter, 2006 The drill trench 5 10 mm 33 x 33 mm 15 mm 54 mm 24 mm Thin sections CFA 18 2 δ O, δ H 10Be 44 mm 55 mm Archive Gases, dust CO2, CH4, N2O & isotopes 98mm foto: hans oerter, 2006 Cutting scheme for EPICA ice cores 23. Internationale Polartagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Polarforschung, Münster, 10.-14. März 2008 6 -38 δ18Ocorr [°/ ] °° a) MIS1 -43 LGM -48 EDML MIS4 MIS3 MIS5.5 -36 -40 -44 -48 -52 -330 Dome F -53 -58 δDcorr [°/°°] -410 -32 -450 DO1 δ18O [°/ ] °° b) -370 EDC -63 Tsurf [°C] -36 -40 1112 14 16 34 6 7 810 1517 5 13 18 2 9 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 NGRIP -44 -48 -490 synchronized by Methane concentrations -530 1000 EDML c) 100 25-50 0 EDC 50000 100000 10 dust [ppb] Antarctic stable isotope records show synchronous millennial variations during the last glacial, whereas rapid variations are encountered in Greenland. a) EDML δ18O record (purple, 0.5-m resolution; grey, 15-m running mean) after sea level and upstream correctionover the past 150 kyr. The record shows features similar tothose of the EDC (blue) and the Dome F (pink) isotope records but with more fine structure during MIS3 and MIS4. We note that EDML and EDC are plotted on the new common EDC3 timescale while Dome F is plotted on its individual timescale. The temperature axis on the right side indicates approximate surface temperatures at EDML as derived from the spatial δ18O/temperature gradient. b) δ18O record of the NGRIP ice core (grey). c) Mineral dust records of the EDML (red) and EDC (pink) ice cores at 1,000-yr resolution; these dust records were used for synchronization of the cores. 150000 EDML age [yrs BP] EPICA Community Members: nature 444, 9 November 2006. doi:10.038/nature06301 The EPICA EDML-ice core 23. Internationale Polartagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Polarforschung, Münster, 10.-14. März 2008 7 Each Antarctic Isotope Maximum (AIM) in the EDMLice core corresponds to a D/O event in Greenland (NGRIP) Warming in Antarctica starts in a cold phase (Stadial) of the North, Cooling in a warm phase (Interstadial) AMOC: Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation Bipolar seesaw depending on AMOC AIM D/O Age on new NGRIP time scale (kyrs BP) Source: EPICA community members: Nature ,Vol. 444 , November 9, 2006) Comparison Antarctica (EDML) - Greenland (NGRIP) 23. Internationale Polartagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Polarforschung, Münster, 10.-14. März 2008 8 16 6 810 12 19 20 14 17 4 11 7 5 13 15 18 3 9 4. 1 18.1 2 23 24 21 22 25 -35 -40 M IS 5.5 TI -5 M IS 4 A C R M IS 2 M IS 7.5 M IS M IS 7.3 7.1 M IS 6 M IS 5.3 M IS 5.2 M IS 9.3 50 M IS 7.4 °C M IS 11.1 M IS 7.2 150 200 0 M IS 11.3 0 M IS 14.3 M IS 13.3 M IS 12.3 M IS M IS 12.4 12.2 -5 TV I M IS 13.1 M IS 13.2 -10 500 A ge (ky BP) M IS M IS 14.2 14.4 550 300 350 400 M IS 15.5 T V II M IS 16.4 M IS 16.2 M IS M IS 15.2 15.4 600 M IS 16.3 -5 M IS 17.3 A ge (ky BP) 650 700 Age (ky B.P.) -10 450 M IS 15.3 M IS 15.1 TV M IS 11.2 M IS 9.2 250 -45 M IS 5.4 A ge (ky BP) 100 T IV T III M IS 8 T II M IS 5.1 M IS 3 -10 Antarctic temperature change (°C) in ‰ 0 M IS 10 Back to 140 ky B.P., 100-year mean values are shown, whereas for earlier periods (middle and lower traces), DTs is calculated from 0.55-m raw data; a smooth curve using a 700-year binomial filter is superimposed on this detailed record. In the upper trace (which is plotted on a more highly resolved time axis), the correspondence is shown between the DO events as recorded in the North Greenland Ice Core Project isotopic record and AIM events recorded in the EDC temperature record during the last glacial period and the last deglaciation. We have indicated the successive MIS, and the transitions are labeled from TI to TIX. N orth G R IP North GRIP δ18O (‰) D O events 01 5 d18O T V III M IS 18.2 Antarctic temperature change (°C) Strength of interglacials depending on whether obliquity and precession peak in phase or not Antarctic temperature change (°C) AIMs appear also in earlier glacials °C M IS 18.3 M IS 19.3 750 T IX 800 Jouzel, J. et al.:, Science 317, 793-796 (2007) Dome C temperature anomaly over 810 ky 23. Internationale Polartagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Polarforschung, Münster, 10.-14. März 2008 9 Antarctic ice core records: Vostok and EPICA CO2, CH4 and DD at present 375 CO2 (ppmv) 300 Vostok (black) and Dome C (blue) data 270 240 210 180 EPICA Dome C data DD ice (‰) Warm -390 Cold -420 -450 CH4 (ppbv) vor 1850 AD Vostok (black) and Dome C (blue) data 700 600 500 400 300 0 today 100 200 300 400 Age / kyr BP 500 600 700 800 EPICA data are plotted on EDC2, Vostok data on GT4 timescale Petit et al., 1999 (Vostok), Siegenthaler et al., 2005 (Dome C - CO2), Spahni et al., 2005 (Dome C - CH4), EPICA community members, 2004 (DD) 23. Internationale Polartagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Polarforschung, Münster, 10.-14. März 2008 10 Each of the rapid Dansgaard-Oeschger events, has an Antarctic counterpart (AIM), strongly supporting the idea that the mechanism was reorganisation of ocean heat transport. foto: hans oerter, 2008 EPICA has produced the definitive ice-core records of climate and evironmental change from Antarctica. EPICA extended the ice-core records back to 800,000 years BP. Greenhouse gases (CO2, CH4, N2O) are now at their highest concentrations of the past 650,000 years. CO2 and Antarctic climate have been tightly coupled over the entire period (providing great constraints on the role of the Southern Ocean). Summary 23. Internationale Polartagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Polarforschung, Münster, 10.-14. März 2008 11