US International Trans-Antarctic Scientific Expedition (US ITASE) Ice Cores Data
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US_ITASE
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Summary
Abstract:
Sub-annually resolved ice core chemistry data from various sites on the Antarctic Ice Sheet were obtained from 1999 to 2008 during the US International Trans-Antarctic Scientific Expedition (US ITASE) deployments. Researchers conducted experiments approximately every 100-300 km looking for clues representing climatic conditions over the past 200-1000+ years. Ice cores, obtained for the ... glaciochemical component of the US ITASE research, were analyzed for soluble major ion content and in some cases trace elements. At each site, a ~3-inch diameter ice core was drilled to depths as great as 120 m. Surface snow samples were collected every ~10-40 km. High-resolution chemical analysis (up to ~75 measurements per meter) was used to define each core-chemistry year based on peaks in Na+, Ca2+, Mg2+, K+, NH4+, Cl-, NO3-, SO42-, CH3SO3- (methylsulfonate), and in some cases trace elements. Extreme events such as volcanic eruptions provide absolute age horizons within each core that are easily identified in chemical profiles. Our chemical analysis is also useful for quantifying anthropogenic impact, biogeochemical cycling, and for reconstructing past atmospheric circulation patterns. 
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US ITASE traverse platform on the way to South Pole
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Image taken by Dan Dixon during 2007-2008 US ITASE expedition.
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Removing ice core from drill
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Image taken using Dan Dixon camera during 2007-2008 US ITASE expedition.
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Dan Dixon measuring ice core
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Image of Dan Dixon taken using Dan Dixon camera during 2007-2008 US ITASE expedition.
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Mike Waszkiewicz drilling using ECLIPSE system
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Image of Mike Waszkiewicz taken by Dan Dixon during 2007-2008 US ITASE expedition.
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Geographic Coverage
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Spatial coordinates
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N: -76.0
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S: -90.0
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E: 60.0
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W: -85.0
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Min Altitude:
1040
Max Altitude:
3569
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Min Depth:
0
Max Depth:
120
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Data Set Citation
Dataset Originator/Creator:
Climate Change Institute
Dataset Title:
US ITASE glaciochemical data
Dataset Series Name:
US ITASE Phase I and II
Dataset Release Place:
NSIDC and Icereader
Dataset Publisher:
Climate Change Institute
Version:
12_03_2008
Issue Identification:
12_03_2008/1
Data Presentation Form:
digital file
Other Citation Details:
comma separated ASCII file
Temporal Coverage
Start Date:
1600-01-01
Stop Date:
2008-12-31
Data Resolution
Horizontal Resolution Range:
Point Resolution
Vertical Resolution Range:
Point Resolution
Temporal Resolution:
Decadal, Annual, Subannual, Seasonal
Temporal Resolution Range:
Annual Climatology
Quality
High precision major and trace chemistry using IC, ICP-MS with strict sampling, handling and analytical protocols utilizing blanks and multilevel calibration techniques.
Access Constraints
Controlled by NSIDC Data Center
Use Constraints
All data users may copy, distribute, display and perform work and make derivative works based on it only if they give the author and data owner credit as outlined below.
Data users must cite the following publications whenever using any part of these data, unless other usage terms have been negotiated and agreed upon with the data set owner
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Bertler, N., Mayewski, P.A., Alberto Aristarain, P.Barrett, S.Becagli, Ronaldo Torma Bernardo, Xiao Cunde, M.Curran, Qin Dahe, D.Dixon, Francisco Adolfo Ferron, H. Fischer, Markus Frey, M.Frezzotti, F. Fundel, Christophe Genthon, R.Gragani, G.Hamilton, M.Handley, Sungmin Hong, E.Isaksson, Ren Jiawen, Kokichi Kamiyama, Satoru Kanamori, Eija Karkas, L.Karlˆf, S.Kaspari, K.Kreutz, A.Kurbatov, E.Meyerson, Hideaki Motoyama, R. Mulvaney, Zhang Mingjun, H.Oerter, E.Osterberg, M.Proposito, A.Pyne, U.Ruth, Jefferson Cardia Simoes, B.Smith, S.Sneed, Kimmo Teinila, F. Traufetter, R.Udisti, Aki Virkkula, Okitsugu Watanabe, B.Williamson, E. Wolff, Li Zhongqin, 2006, Snow chemistry across Antarctica, Annals of Glaciology 41, 167-179.
Dixon, D., Mayewski, P.A., Kaspari, S., Sneed, S., and Handley, M., 2004, A 200 year sub annual record of the primary sources of sulfate in West Antarctica, Annals of Glaciology 39, 545-556.
Dixon, D., Mayewski, P.A., Kaspari, S., Sneed, S. and Handley, M., 2005, Connections between West Antarctic ice core sulfate and climate over the last 200+ years, Annals of Glaciology 41, 155-156.
Kaspari, S., Mayewski, P.A., Dixon, D., Spikes, V.B., Sneed, S.B., Handley, M.J., and Hamilton, 2004, Climate variability in West Antarctica derived from annual accumulation rate records from ITASE firn/ice cores, Annals of Glaciology 39, 585-594.
Kaspari, S., Mayewski, P.A., Dixon, D., Sneed, S.B., and Handley, M.J., 2005, Sources and transport pathways for marine aerosol species into West Antarctica, Annals of Glaciology 42, 1-9.
Mayewski, P.A., K. A. Maasch, J.W.C. White, E. Meyerson, I. Goodwin, V.I. Morgan., T. van Ommen, M.A.J. Curran, J. Souney, and K. Kreutz, 2005, A 700 year record of Southern Hemisphere extra-tropical climate variability, Annals of Glaciology 39, 127-132.
Mayewski, P.A., Frezzotti, M., Bertler, N., van Ommen, T., Hamilton, G.H., Jacka, J., Welch, B., Frey, M., Dahe, Q., Ren, J., Simoes, J., Fily, M., Oerter, H., Nishio, F., Iasaksson, E., Mulvaney, R., Holmund, P., Lipenkov, V. and Goodwin, I., 2006, The International Trans-Antarctic Scientific Expedition (ITASE) - An Overview, Annals of Glaciology 41, 180-185.
Mayewski, P.A., Maasch, K., Yan, Y., Kang, S., Meyerson, E., Sneed, S., Kaspari, S., Dixon, D., Morgan, V., van Ommen, T., and Curran, M., 2006, Solar forcing of the polar atmosphere, Annals of Glaciology 41, 147-154.
Mayewski, P.A. and Maasch, K., 2006, Recent warming inconsistent with natural association between temperature and atmospheric circulation over the last 2000 years, Climate of the Past (Discussions), on line: http://www.copernicus.org/EGU/cp/cpd/2/327/cpd-2-327.htm.
Steig, E.J., P.A. Mayewski, D. Dixon, S. Kaspari, M. Frey, D.P. Schneider, S.A. Arcone, G. Hamilton, B. Spikes, M.R. Albert, D.A. Meese, A. Gow, C.A. Shuman, J. White, S. Sneed, J. Flaherty, M. Wumkes and US ITASE Project Members, 2006, High-resolution ice cores from US ITASE (West Antarctica): development and validation of chronologies and determination of precision and accuracy, Annals of Glaciology 41, 77-84.
Yan, Y., Mayewski, P.A., Kang, S., and Meyerson, E., 2005, An ice core proxy for Antarctic circumpolar wind intensity, Annals of Glaciology 41, 121-130.
Related publications that may be of interest to the data user but citation is not required:
Arcone, S. A., Spikes, V.B., Hamilton, G., and Mayewski, P.A., 2005, Continuity, vertical resolution and origin of stratigraphy in 400-Mhz short-pulse radar profiles of firn in West Antarctica, Annals of Glaciology 39, 195-200.
Bergin, M.H., Meyerson, E., Dibb, J.E. and Mayewski, P.A., 1999, Comparison of continuous aerosol measurements and ice core chemistry over a 10 year period at the South Pole, Geophys. Res. Letters.
Bertler, N.A.M, Naish, T. R., Mayewski, P.A., and Barrett, P.J., 2006, Opposing oceanic and atmospheric ENSO influences on the Ross Sea Region, Antarctica, Advances in Geoscience 6, 83-86.
Bertler, N.A.N., Naish, T.R., Oerter, H., Kipfstuhl, S., Barrett, P.J., Mayewski, P.A. and Kreutz, K., 2006, The effects of joint ENSO-Antarctic Oscillation forcing on the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica, Antarctic Science 18, 4, 507-514.
Bertler, A.N., Barrett, P.J., Mayewski, P.A., Sneed, S.B., Naish, T.R., and Morgenstern, U., 2006, Solar forcing recorded by aerosol concentrations in coastal Antarctic glacier ice, McMurdo Dry Valleys, Annals of Glaciology 41, 52-56.
Bertler, N.A.N., P.J. Barrett, P.A. Mayewski, R.L. Fogt, K.J. Kreutz, and J. Shulmeister, 2004, El NiÒo suppresses Antarctic warming, Geophysical Research Letters, 31 (L15207, doi:10.1029/2004GL020749).
Bertler, N.A.N., P.J. Barrett, P.A. Mayewski, R.L. Fogt, K.J. Kreutz, and J. Shulmeister, 2005. Reply to comment by Doran et al. on "El NiÒo suppresses Antarctic warming", Geophysical Research Letters, 32 (L07707, doi: 10.1029/2005GL022595).
Conway, H., Neumann, T.A., Price, S., Waddington, E.D., Morse, D., Taylor, K., Mayewski, P.A., Dixon, D., Pettit, E., and Steig, E.J., 2005, Candidate drill site near the Ross-Amundsen ice divide, West Antarctica, Report to Office of Polar Programs, National Science Foundation, 10p.
Genthon, C., Kaspari,S. and Mayewski, P.A., 2005, Inter-annual variability of surface mass balance in West Antarctica from ITASE cores and ERA40 reanalyses, Climate Dynamics 21, DOI 10.1007/s00382-003-0329-1.
Goodwin, I.D., van Ommen, T.D., Curran, M.A.J., and Mayewski, P.A., 2004, Mid-latitude climate variability in the south Indian Ocean and southwest Pacific regions since AD1300, Climate Dynamics 22(8), 783-794.
Isaksson, E., KarlÈn, W., Mayewski, P., Twickler, M., and Whitlow, S., 2001. A high-altitude snow chemistry record from Amundsenisen, Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica. Journal of Glaciology, 47 (158), 489-496.
Kreutz, K.J., Mayewski, P.A., Meeker, L.D., Twickler, M.S., Whitlow, S.I., and Pittalwala, I.I. 1997, Bipolar changes in atmospheric circulation during the Little Ice Age. Science, v. 277, p. 1294-1296.
Kreutz, K.J., and Mayewski, P.A., 1999, Survey of Antarctic surface snow glaciochemistry, Antarctic Science 11 (1), 105-118.
Kreutz, K.J., Mayewski, P.A., Witlow, S.I. and Twickler, M.S., 1998, Limited migration of soluble ionic species in a Siple Dome, Antarctica ice core, Annals of Glaciology 27, 371-377.
Kreutz, K.J., Mayewski, P.A., Whitlow, S.I. and Twickler, M.S., 2000, The effect of spatial variability and temporal accumulation rate variability in West Antarctica on soluble ion deposition, Geophysical Research Letters 27, 2517-2520.
Kreutz, K.J., Mayewski, P.A., Pittalwala, I.I., Meeker, L.D., Twickler, M.S., and Whitlow, S.I. 2000. Sea-level pressure variability in the Amundsen Sea region inferred from a West Antarctic glaciochemical record, Journal of Geophysical Research, 105 (D3), 4047-4059.
Kurbatov, A. V., G. A. Zielinski, N. W. Dunbar, P. A. Mayewski, E. A. Meyerson, S. B. Sneed, and K. C. Taylor (2006), A 12,000 year record of explosive volcanism in the Siple Dome Ice Core, West Antarctica, J. Geophys. Res., 111, D12307, doi:10.1029/2005JD006072.
Maasch, K., Mayewski, P.A., Rohling, E., Stager, C., KarlÈn, K., Meeker, L.D., and Meyerson, E., 2005, Climate of the past 2000 years, Geografiska Annaler 87A (1), 7-15.
Mayewski, P. A., M. Meredith, C. Summerhayes, J. Turner, S. Aoki, Barrett, P. N.A.N. Bertler, T. Bracegirdle, D. Bromwich, H. Campbell, G. Casassa, A. N. Garabato, W.B. Lyons, K.A. Maasch, A. Worby, C. Xiao, in press, State of the Antarctic and Southern Ocean Climate System (SASOCS), Reviews of Geophysics, doi:10.1029/2007RG000231.
Mayewski, P.A., Rohling, E., Stager, C., KarlÈn, K., Maasch, K., Meeker, L.D., Meyerson, E., Gasse, F., van Kreveld, S., Holmgren, K., Lee-Thorp, J., Rosqvist, G., Rack, F., Staubwasser, M., and Schneider, R., 2004, Holocene climate variability, Quaternary Research, Quaternary Research 62, 243-255.
Mayewski, P.A., 2003, Antarctic oversnow traverse-based Southern Hemisphere climate reconstruction, EOS 84, 22, 205 and 210.
Meyerson, E.A., Mayewski, P.A., Whitlow, S.I., Meeker, L.D.and Kreutz, K.J. and Twickler, M.S., 2002, The extratropical expression of ENSO recorded in a South Pole glaciochemical time series, Annals of Glaciology 35, 430-436.
Monaghan, A. J., D. H. Bromwich, R. L. Fogt, S.-H. Wang, P. A. Mayewski, D. A. Dixon, A. A. Ekaykin, M. Frezzotti, I. D. Goodwin, E. Isaksson, S. D. Kaspari, V. I. Morgan, H. Oerter, T. D. van Ommen, C. J. van der Veen, and J. Wen, 2006: Insignificant change in Antarctic snowfall since the International Geophysical Year. Science, 313, 827-831.
Palmer, A.S., Van Ommen, T., Curran, M.A., Morgan, V., Souney, J., and Mayewski, P.A., 2001, High-precision dating of volcanic events (AD 1301-1995) using ice cores from Law Dome, Antarctica, Jour. Geophys. Res. 106, D22, 28,080-28,095.
Pruett, L.E., Kreutz, K.J., Mayewski, P.A., Kurbatov, A., and Wadleigh, M. 2004, Sulfur isotopic measurements from a West Antarctic ice core: implications for sulfate source and transport, Annals of Glaciology 39, 161-168.
Qin, D., Mayewski, P.A., Lyons, W.B., Sun, J. and Hou, S., 1999, Lead pollution in Antarctic surface snow revealed along the route of the International Trans-Antarctic Expedition (ITAE), Ann. Glaciol.29,94-98.
Qin, D., Mayewski, P.A., Ren, J., Xiao, C. and Sun, J., in review, The Weddell Sea region: an important precipitation channel to the interior of the Antarctic ice sheet as revealed by glaciochemical investigation of surface snow along the International Trans-Antarctic Expedition (ITAE) route, Annals of Glaciology 29, 55-60.
Reusch, D. B., Mayewski, P.A., Whitlow, S.I. and Twickler, M.S., 1999, Spatial variability and past atmospheric circulation patterns from central West Antarctic glaciochemistry, Journal Geophysical Research 104, 5985-6001.
Schneider, D. P., E. J. Steig, T. D. van Ommen, D. A. Dixon, P. A. Mayewski, J. M. Jones, and C. M. Bitz (2006), Antarctic temperatures over the past two centuries from ice cores, Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L16707, doi:10.1029/2006GL027057.
Shulmeister, J., I. Goodwin, J. Renwick, K. Harle, L. Armand, M. S. McGlone, E. Cook, J. Dodson, Hesse, P.P, Mayewski, P., and M. Curran, 2004, The Southern Hemisphere Westerlies in the Australasian sector: A synthesis, Quaternary International 118-119, 23-53.
Souney, J., Mayewski, P.A., Goodwin, I., Morgan, V., van Ommen, T., 2002, A late Holocene climate record from Law Dome, East Antarctica, Jour. Geophys. Res. 107 (D22), 4608.
Spikes, V. B.; Hamilton, G. S., Arcone, S. A.; Kaspari, S., Mayewski, P.A., 2004, Variability in accumulation rates from GPR profiling on the West Antarctic plateau, Annals of Glaciology 39, 238-244.
Stenberg, M., Isaakson, E., Hansson, M., Karlen, W., Mayewski, P. A., Twickler, M.S., Whitlow, S.I. and Gundestrup, N., 1998, Spatial variability of snow chemistry in western Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica, Annals of Glaciology, 27, 378-384.
Xiao, C., Mayewski, P.A., Qin, D., Li, Z., Zhang, M., and Yan, Y., in press, Sea level pressure variability in the Southern Indian Ocean inferred from a glaciochemical record in the Princess Elizabeth L and East Antarctica, Jour. Geophys. Research 109.
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Creation and Review Dates
DIF Creation Date:
2003-09-15
Last DIF Revision Date:
2012-03-15
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