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Articles | Volume 19, issue 10
Articles | Volume 19, issue 10
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23 Oct 2025
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The impact of measurement precision on the resolvable resolution of ice core water isotope reconstructions

Fyntan Shaw, Thomas Münch, Vasileios Gkinis, and Thomas Laepple

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Diffusion in combination with measurement noise erase high-frequency water isotope variability in ice cores, linking measurement precision to recoverable resolution. We derive expressions for this relationship, finding a resolution improvement of 1.5 times for a 10-fold measurement noise reduction. Based on the current age-depth model, our method predicts 10 000-year cycles will be recoverable in the 1.5 Myr old ice from the Oldest Ice Core δ18O record if a noise level of 0.01 ‰ is achieved.
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