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Articles | Volume 14, issue 11
Articles | Volume 14, issue 11
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3731-2020
© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3731-2020
© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 14, issue 11
Research article
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05 Nov 2020
Research article |  | 05 Nov 2020

Tracing devastating fires in Portugal to a snow archive in the Swiss Alps: a case study

Dimitri Osmont, Sandra Brugger, Anina Gilgen, Helga Weber, Michael Sigl, Robin L. Modini, Christoph Schwörer, Willy Tinner, Stefan Wunderle, and Margit Schwikowski

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In this interdisciplinary case study, we were able to link biomass burning emissions from the June 2017 wildfires in Portugal to their deposition in the snowpack at Jungfraujoch, Swiss Alps. We analysed black carbon and charcoal in the snowpack, calculated backward trajectories, and monitored the fire evolution by remote sensing. Such case studies help to understand the representativity of biomass burning records in ice cores and how biomass burning tracers are archived in the snowpack.
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