Taylor Dome: Trace Gases

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Please cite these data correctly! Primary references are given below and with the data files. All files are tab-delimited and should open easily in Microsoft Excel and similar programs.

Please cite these data correctly!

CO₂ concentrations for the Holocene portion of the Taylor Dome core were obtained jointly at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego and at the Physics Institute, University of Bern, Switzerland. The timescale used in the file gives gas ages, from the methane record of Brook et al. (1999). This is the same gas timescale used to constrain the st9810 timescale of Steig et al. (1999); it is offset from st9810 by the difference (deltaAge) between the trapped gas and the ice that surrounds it.

Additional information and figures are available at http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/paleo/taylor/taylor.html.

References:

For the CO₂ data

Indermühle A, Stocker TF, Joos F, Fischer H, Smith JH, Wahlen M, Deck B, Mastroianni D, Tschumi J, Blunier T, Meyer R, Stauffer B. Holocene carbon-cycle dynamics based on CO₂ trapped in ice at Taylor Dome, Antarctica. Nature 398: 121-126 (1999).
For the timescale
Brook EJ, Severinghaus J, Harder S, Bender M. Atmospheric methane and millennial scale climate change. In Mechanisms of Millennial Scale Climate Change (AGU Monograph, Washington D.C) (in press).