Articles | Volume 14, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1537-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1537-2020
Research article
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12 May 2020
Research article |  | 12 May 2020

Refractory black carbon (rBC) variability in a 47-year West Antarctic snow and firn core

Luciano Marquetto, Susan Kaspari, and Jefferson Cardia Simões

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Black carbon, commonly known as soot, is a particle originating from the incomplete combustion of fossil fuels and biomass burning that plays an important role in the climatic system. In this work, we analyzed black carbon from an Antarctic ice core spanning 1968–2015 and observed very low concentrations of this particle in the snow, lower than previous works in West Antarctica. We suggest that black carbon transport to East Antarctica is different from its transport to West Antarctica.