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Articles | Volume 17, issue 5
Articles | Volume 17, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-2119-2023
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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-2119-2023
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Articles | Volume 17, issue 5
Research article
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25 May 2023
Research article |  | 25 May 2023

Consistent histories of anthropogenic western European air pollution preserved in different Alpine ice cores

Anja Eichler, Michel Legrand, Theo M. Jenk, Susanne Preunkert, Camilla Andersson, Sabine Eckhardt, Magnuz Engardt, Andreas Plach, and Margit Schwikowski

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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-2119-2023-supplement

Data sets

Swiss and French Alps Black Carbon, Ion and Trace Element Concentration Ice Core Data from 1755-2015 CE A. Eichler, M. Legrand, T. M. Jenk, S. Preunkert, and M. Schwikowski https://doi.org/10.25921/rcsw-2625

Record of black carbon (rBC), bismuth, lead and others from 1741 to 2015 AD from Colle Gnifetti ice cores GC15 and GC03B (Swiss/Italian Alps) M. Sigl, N. J. Abram, J. Gabrieli, T. M. Jenk, D. Osmont, and M. Schwikowski https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.894787

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We investigate how a 250-year history of the emission of air pollutants (major inorganic aerosol constituents, black carbon, and trace species) is preserved in ice cores from four sites in the European Alps. The observed uniform timing in species-dependent longer-term concentration changes reveals that the different ice-core records provide a consistent, spatially representative signal of the pollution history from western European countries.
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Special issue
Ice core science at the three poles (CP/TC inter-journal SI)