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SNS Timing System
This poster describes the timing system being designed for Spallation Neutron
Source being built at Oak Ridge National lab
Climate Signals from stable water isotope records for the last millennium from northern Greenland
Ice cores from polar ice sheets provide a unique archive for past climatic variations. But due to their remoteness
Greenland and Antarctica are up to now still to large extent unstudied areas.
Deep ice cores represent single spots. To get an estimate for the regional representativeness of one ice core and to
set the results from deep cores into a wider regional picture more drill sites are necessary covering a larger area.
A set of 13 shallow inter-mediate depth (100-150 m) ice cores were drilled during the AWI-North Greenland
traverse (NGT) in the 1990ies. It covers 500 to 1000 years back in time and offers the possibility to assess regional
representativeness.
These 13 single records were analyzed for their water isotopic composition (delta18O) and have been averaged to
produce an isotope stack for North Greenland.
The main objectives of this study are 1) to analyse this new dataset for its spatial variability and to evaluate the
impact of isotopic noise, 2) to assess whether stable water isotope records from sites with very low accumulation
rates can also be interpreted as climate signals, 3) to present a new stacked isotope record and 4) to interpret this in
terms of paleoclimate (temporal variability, relation to large scale climate information from other ice-core records etc.)
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