High-resolution aerosol data from the top 3.8 kyr of the East Greenland Ice coring Project (EGRIP) ice core

• Published in: Earth system science data Vol. 15; no. 11; pp. 5079 - 5091
• Main Authors: Erhardt, Tobias, Jensen, Camilla Marie, Adolphi, Florian, Kjær, Helle Astrid, Dallmayr, Remi, Twarloh, Birthe, Behrens, Melanie, Hirabayashi, Motohiro, Fukuda, Kaori, Ogata, Jun, Burgay, François, Scoto, Federico, Crotti, Ilaria, Spagnesi, Azzurra, Maffezzoli, Niccoló, Segato, Delia, Paleari, Chiara, Mekhaldi, Florian, Muscheler, Raimund, Darfeuil, Sophie, Fischer, Hubertus
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Katlenburg-Lindau Copernicus GmbH 17-11-2023; Copernicus Publications
• Subjects: Aerosols; Ammonium; Ammonium compounds; Archives & records; Calcium; Calcium nitrate; Chemistry; Continuous flow; Core analysis; Core sampling; Coring; Depth; Drilling; Environmental Sciences; High resolution; Ice; Ice cores; Ice sheets; New records; Nitrates; Sodium; Temporal resolution; Greenland; Greenland Ice
• ISSN: 1866-3516; 1866-3508; 1866-3516
• DOI: 10.5194/essd-15-5079-2023

Here we present the high-resolution continuous flow analysis (CFA) data from the top 479 m of the East Greenland Ice coring Project (EGRIP) ice core covering the past 3.8 kyr. The data consist of 1 mm depth-resolution profiles of calcium, sodium, ammonium, nitrate, and electrolytic conductivity as well as decadal averages of these profiles. The nominally 1 mm data represent an oversampling of the record as the true resolution is limited by the analytical setup to approximately 1 cm. Alongside the data we provide a description of the measurement setup, procedures, the relevant references for the specific methods as well as an assessment of the precision of the measurements, the sample-to-depth assignment, and the depth and temporal resolution of the data set. The error in absolute depth assignment of the data may be on the order of 2 cm; however, relative depth offsets between the records of the individual species are only on the order of 1 mm. The presented data have sub-annual resolution over the entire depth range and have already formed part of the data for an annually layer-counted timescale for the EGRIP ice core used to improve and revise the multi-core Greenland ice-core chronology (GICC05) to a new version, GICC21 (Sinnl et al., 2022). The data are available in full 1 mm resolution and decadal averages on PANGAEA (https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.945293, Erhardt et al., 2022b).