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Consistent histories of anthropogenic western European air pollution preserved in different Alpine ice cores
Laboratory of Environmental Chemistry, Paul Scherrer Institute, 5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland
Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, 3012 Bern, Switzerland
Michel Legrand
Institut des Géosciences de l'Environnement, Université Grenoble Alpes, 38402 Grenoble, France
Laboratoire Interuniversitaire des Systèmes Atmosphériques (LISA), Université Paris Cité and Univ Paris Est Creteil, CNRS, 75013 Paris, France
Theo M. Jenk
Laboratory of Environmental Chemistry, Paul Scherrer Institute, 5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland
Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, 3012 Bern, Switzerland
Susanne Preunkert
Institut des Géosciences de l'Environnement, Université Grenoble Alpes, 38402 Grenoble, France
Camilla Andersson
Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute, 60176 Norrköping, Sweden
Sabine Eckhardt
Department of Atmospheric and Climate Research, NILU – Norwegian Institute for Air Research, Kjeller, Norway
Magnuz Engardt
Environment and Health Administration, City of Stockholm, 10420 Stockholm, Sweden
Andreas Plach
Department of Meteorology and Geophysics, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Margit Schwikowski
Laboratory of Environmental Chemistry, Paul Scherrer Institute, 5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland
Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, 3012 Bern, Switzerland
Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Bern, 3012 Bern, Switzerland
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Short summary
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.
We investigate how a 250-year history of the emission of air pollutants (major inorganic aerosol...
