Ice core science at the three poles (CP/TC inter-journal SI)(CP/TC inter-journal SI)
Ice core science at the three poles (CP/TC inter-journal SI)(CP/TC inter-journal SI)
Editor(s): Nanna Bjørnholt Karlsson, Margit Schwikowski, Hubertus Fischer, Anja Eichler, Ed Brook, Emilie Capron, Alexey Ekaykin, Paolo Gabrielli, Kumiko Goto-Azuma, Mathieu Casado, Alexis Lamothe, Tas van Ommen, Christine S. Hvidberg, Barbara Stenni, Nozomu Takeuchi, Elizabeth Thomas, and Jay Johnson Special issue jointly organized between Climate of the Past and The Cryosphere
Ice cores provide a wealth of information about past climate and environmental conditions as well as direct records of the composition of the atmosphere on timescales from decades to hundreds of millennia. This comprises deep ice cores from both polar ice sheets and from high-altitude glaciers, with the latter responding most sensitively to human interaction with the Earth system.

In October 2022 the 3rd Open Science Conference of the International Partnerships of Ice Core Sciences (IPICS) takes place in Crans-Montana, Switzerland, providing the opportunity to document the status quo of ice core research including comparative studies on other climate archives and climate models in this joint special issue of Climate of the Past and The Cryosphere: "Ice core science at the three poles".

Potential topics of contributions include the latest results from polar and high-altitude ice cores, integrative science on ice cores, climate models and other climate archives, new proxies, and other ice-core-related technology developments. In particular, we invite ice-core-related contributions on the following themes.

1. Glacial–interglacial dynamics, interglacials, and sea level
2. Holocene and the last 2000-year climate forcings and variability
3. Progress in proxy development and interpretation
4. Ice dynamics, ice sheet instability, and geophysics
5. High-alpine ice cores
6. Ice biology, basal ice, and subglacial lakes
7. Pollution records
8. Advances in drilling engineering and borehole observations
9. Timescales and methods for ice dating
10. Rapid changes and teleconnections
11. Biogeochemical cycles in the Earth system – data and models
12. New ice archives
13. The Oldest Ice challenge and the preservation of climatic signals in the deepest ice.

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23 Sep 2024
Combining traditional and novel techniques to increase our understanding of the lock-in depth of atmospheric gases in polar ice cores – results from the EastGRIP region
Julien Westhoff, Johannes Freitag, Anaïs Orsi, Patricia Martinerie, Ilka Weikusat, Michael Dyonisius, Xavier Faïn, Kevin Fourteau, and Thomas Blunier
The Cryosphere, 18, 4379–4397, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-18-4379-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-18-4379-2024, 2024
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03 Sep 2024
A decade (2008–2017) of water stable isotope composition of precipitation at Concordia Station, East Antarctica
Giuliano Dreossi, Mauro Masiol, Barbara Stenni, Daniele Zannoni, Claudio Scarchilli, Virginia Ciardini, Mathieu Casado, Amaëlle Landais, Martin Werner, Alexandre Cauquoin, Giampietro Casasanta, Massimo Del Guasta, Vittoria Posocco, and Carlo Barbante
The Cryosphere, 18, 3911–3931, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-18-3911-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-18-3911-2024, 2024
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06 Aug 2024
The potential of in situ cosmogenic 14CO in ice cores as a proxy for galactic cosmic ray flux variations
Vasilii V. Petrenko, Segev BenZvi, Michael Dyonisius, Benjamin Hmiel, Andrew M. Smith, and Christo Buizert
The Cryosphere, 18, 3439–3451, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-18-3439-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-18-3439-2024, 2024
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25 Jul 2024
Characterization of in situ cosmogenic 14CO production, retention and loss in firn and shallow ice at Summit, Greenland
Benjamin Hmiel, Vasilii V. Petrenko, Christo Buizert, Andrew M. Smith, Michael N. Dyonisius, Philip Place, Bin Yang, Quan Hua, Ross Beaudette, Jeffrey P. Severinghaus, Christina Harth, Ray F. Weiss, Lindsey Davidge, Melisa Diaz, Matthew Pacicco, James A. Menking, Michael Kalk, Xavier Faïn, Alden Adolph, Isaac Vimont, and Lee T. Murray
The Cryosphere, 18, 3363–3382, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-18-3363-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-18-3363-2024, 2024
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24 Jul 2024
Research into mechanical modeling based on characteristics of the fracture mechanics of ice cutting for scientific drilling in polar regions
Xinyu Lv, Zhihao Cui, Ting Wang, Yumin Wen, An Liu, and Rusheng Wang
The Cryosphere, 18, 3351–3362, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-18-3351-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-18-3351-2024, 2024
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11 Jun 2024
Local summer temperature changes over the past 440 ka revealed by the total air content in the Antarctic EPICA Dome C ice core
Dominique Raynaud, Qiuzhen Yin, Emilie Capron, Zhipeng Wu, Frédéric Parrenin, André Berger, and Vladimir Lipenkov
Clim. Past, 20, 1269–1282, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-20-1269-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-20-1269-2024, 2024
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28 May 2024
Drivers of late Holocene ice core chemistry in Dronning Maud Land: the context for the ISOL-ICE project
V. Holly L. Winton, Robert Mulvaney, Joel Savarino, Kyle R. Clem, and Markus M. Frey
Clim. Past, 20, 1213–1232, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-20-1213-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-20-1213-2024, 2024
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24 Apr 2024
An annually resolved chronology for the Mount Brown South ice cores, East Antarctica
Tessa R. Vance, Nerilie J. Abram, Alison S. Criscitiello, Camilla K. Crockart, Aylin DeCampo, Vincent Favier, Vasileios Gkinis, Margaret Harlan, Sarah L. Jackson, Helle A. Kjær, Chelsea A. Long, Meredith K. Nation, Christopher T. Plummer, Delia Segato, Andrea Spolaor, and Paul T. Vallelonga
Clim. Past, 20, 969–990, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-20-969-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-20-969-2024, 2024
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09 Apr 2024
Fifty years of firn evolution on Grigoriev ice cap, Tien Shan, Kyrgyzstan
Horst Machguth, Anja Eichler, Margit Schwikowski, Sabina Brütsch, Enrico Mattea, Stanislav Kutuzov, Martin Heule, Ryskul Usubaliev, Sultan Belekov, Vladimir N. Mikhalenko, Martin Hoelzle, and Marlene Kronenberg
The Cryosphere, 18, 1633–1646, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-18-1633-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-18-1633-2024, 2024
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30 Jan 2024
Accumulation rates over the past 260 years archived in Elbrus ice core, Caucasus
Vladimir Mikhalenko, Stanislav Kutuzov, Pavel Toropov, Michel Legrand, Sergey Sokratov, Gleb Chernyakov, Ivan Lavrentiev, Susanne Preunkert, Anna Kozachek, Mstislav Vorobiev, Aleksandra Khairedinova, and Vladimir Lipenkov
Clim. Past, 20, 237–255, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-20-237-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-20-237-2024, 2024
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30 Jan 2024
Spatial distribution of vertical density and microstructure profiles in near-surface firn around Dome Fuji, Antarctica
Ryo Inoue, Shuji Fujita, Kenji Kawamura, Ikumi Oyabu, Fumio Nakazawa, Hideaki Motoyama, and Teruo Aoki
The Cryosphere, 18, 425–449, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-18-425-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-18-425-2024, 2024
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16 Jan 2024
Climate change is rapidly deteriorating the climatic signal in Svalbard glaciers
Andrea Spolaor, Federico Scoto, Catherine Larose, Elena Barbaro, Francois Burgay, Mats P. Bjorkman, David Cappelletti, Federico Dallo, Fabrizio de Blasi, Dmitry Divine, Giuliano Dreossi, Jacopo Gabrieli, Elisabeth Isaksson, Jack Kohler, Tonu Martma, Louise S. Schmidt, Thomas V. Schuler, Barbara Stenni, Clara Turetta, Bartłomiej Luks, Mathieu Casado, and Jean-Charles Gallet
The Cryosphere, 18, 307–320, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-18-307-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-18-307-2024, 2024
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05 Jan 2024
Development of deformational regimes and microstructures in the deep sections and overall layered structures of the Dome Fuji ice core, Antarctica
Tomotaka Saruya, Atsushi Miyamoto, Shuji Fujita, Kumiko Goto-Azuma, Motohiro Hirabayashi, Akira Hori, Makoto Igarashi, Yoshinori Iizuka, Takao Kameda, Hiroshi Ohno, Wataru Shigeyama, and Shun Tsutaki
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2023-3146,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2023-3146, 2024
Revised manuscript under review for TC (discussion: final response, 5 comments)
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18 Dec 2023
Control of the temperature signal in Antarctic proxies by snowfall dynamics
Aymeric P. M. Servettaz, Cécile Agosta, Christoph Kittel, and Anaïs J. Orsi
The Cryosphere, 17, 5373–5389, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-5373-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-5373-2023, 2023
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07 Dec 2023
Decoupling of δ18O from surface temperature in Antarctica in an ensemble of Historical simulations
Sentia Oger, Louise Sime, and Max Holloway
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2023-2735,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2023-2735, 2023
Revised manuscript accepted for CP (discussion: final response, 4 comments)
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06 Dec 2023
Identifying atmospheric processes favouring the formation of bubble-free layers in the Law Dome ice core, East Antarctica
Lingwei Zhang, Tessa R. Vance, Alexander D. Fraser, Lenneke M. Jong, Sarah S. Thompson, Alison S. Criscitiello, and Nerilie J. Abram
The Cryosphere, 17, 5155–5173, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-5155-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-5155-2023, 2023
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22 Nov 2023
Evaluating the 11-year solar cycle and short-term 10Be deposition events with novel excess water samples from the East Greenland Ice-core Project (EGRIP)
Chiara I. Paleari, Florian Mekhaldi, Tobias Erhardt, Minjie Zheng, Marcus Christl, Florian Adolphi, Maria Hörhold, and Raimund Muscheler
Clim. Past, 19, 2409–2422, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-19-2409-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-19-2409-2023, 2023
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15 Nov 2023
Southern Hemisphere atmospheric history of carbon monoxide over the late Holocene reconstructed from multiple Antarctic ice archives
Xavier Faïn, David M. Etheridge, Kévin Fourteau, Patricia Martinerie, Cathy M. Trudinger, Rachael H. Rhodes, Nathan J. Chellman, Ray L. Langenfelds, Joseph R. McConnell, Mark A. J. Curran, Edward J. Brook, Thomas Blunier, Grégory Teste, Roberto Grilli, Anthony Lemoine, William T. Sturges, Boris Vannière, Johannes Freitag, and Jérôme Chappellaz
Clim. Past, 19, 2287–2311, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-19-2287-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-19-2287-2023, 2023
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10 Nov 2023
The Antarctic Ice Core Chronology 2023 (AICC2023) chronological framework and associated timescale for the European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica (EPICA) Dome C ice core
Marie Bouchet, Amaëlle Landais, Antoine Grisart, Frédéric Parrenin, Frédéric Prié, Roxanne Jacob, Elise Fourré, Emilie Capron, Dominique Raynaud, Vladimir Ya Lipenkov, Marie-France Loutre, Thomas Extier, Anders Svensson, Etienne Legrain, Patricia Martinerie, Markus Leuenberger, Wei Jiang, Florian Ritterbusch, Zheng-Tian Lu, and Guo-Min Yang
Clim. Past, 19, 2257–2286, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-19-2257-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-19-2257-2023, 2023
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07 Nov 2023
The Temporal Phasing of Rapid Dansgaard–Oeschger Warming Events Cannot Be Reliably Determined
John Slattery, Louise C. Sime, Francesco Muschitiello, and Keno Riechers
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2023-2496,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2023-2496, 2023
Revised manuscript accepted for CP (discussion: final response, 8 comments)
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15 Sep 2023
Early Holocene ice on the Begguya plateau (Mt. Hunter, Alaska) revealed by ice core 14C age constraints
Ling Fang, Theo M. Jenk, Dominic Winski, Karl Kreutz, Hanna L. Brooks, Emma Erwin, Erich Osterberg, Seth Campbell, Cameron Wake, and Margit Schwikowski
The Cryosphere, 17, 4007–4020, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-4007-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-4007-2023, 2023
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17 Aug 2023
An age scale for new climate records from Sherman Island, West Antarctica
Isobel Rowell, Carlos Martin, Robert Mulvaney, Helena Pryer, Dieter Tetzner, Emily Doyle, Hara Madhav Talasila, Jilu Li, and Eric Wolff
Clim. Past, 19, 1699–1714, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-19-1699-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-19-1699-2023, 2023
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14 Aug 2023
Climatology of the Mount Brown South ice core site in East Antarctica: implications for the interpretation of a water isotope record
Sarah L. Jackson, Tessa R. Vance, Camilla Crockart, Andrew Moy, Christopher Plummer, and Nerilie J. Abram
Clim. Past, 19, 1653–1675, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-19-1653-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-19-1653-2023, 2023
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26 Jul 2023
Isotopic diffusion in ice enhanced by vein-water flow
Felix S. L. Ng
The Cryosphere, 17, 3063–3082, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-3063-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-3063-2023, 2023
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21 Jul 2023
Disparate energy sources for slow and fast Dansgaard–Oeschger cycles
Diederik Liebrand, Anouk T. M. de Bakker, Heather J. H. Johnstone, and Charlotte S. Miller
Clim. Past, 19, 1447–1459, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-19-1447-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-19-1447-2023, 2023
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26 Jun 2023
Effects of Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) sea surface temperature and sea ice extent on the isotope–temperature slope at polar ice core sites
Alexandre Cauquoin, Ayako Abe-Ouchi, Takashi Obase, Wing-Le Chan, André Paul, and Martin Werner
Clim. Past, 19, 1275–1294, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-19-1275-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-19-1275-2023, 2023
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13 Jun 2023
Synchronizing ice-core and U ∕ Th timescales in the Last Glacial Maximum using Hulu Cave 14C and new 10Be measurements from Greenland and Antarctica
Giulia Sinnl, Florian Adolphi, Marcus Christl, Kees C. Welten, Thomas Woodruff, Marc Caffee, Anders Svensson, Raimund Muscheler, and Sune Olander Rasmussen
Clim. Past, 19, 1153–1175, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-19-1153-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-19-1153-2023, 2023
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08 Jun 2023
The first firn core from Peter 1st Island – capturing climate variability across the Bellingshausen Sea
Elizabeth Ruth Thomas, Dieter Tetzner, Bradley Markle, Joel Pedro, Guisella Gacitúa, Dorothea Elisabeth Moser, and Sarah Jackson
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2023-1064,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2023-1064, 2023
Revised manuscript accepted for CP (discussion: final response, 5 comments)
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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
The Cryosphere, 17, 2119–2137, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-2119-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-2119-2023, 2023
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22 May 2023
Methane, ethane, and propane production in Greenland ice core samples and a first isotopic characterization of excess methane
Michaela Mühl, Jochen Schmitt, Barbara Seth, James E. Lee, Jon S. Edwards, Edward J. Brook, Thomas Blunier, and Hubertus Fischer
Clim. Past, 19, 999–1025, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-19-999-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-19-999-2023, 2023
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27 Apr 2023
The ST22 chronology for the Skytrain Ice Rise ice core – Part 2: An age model to the last interglacial and disturbed deep stratigraphy
Robert Mulvaney, Eric W. Wolff, Mackenzie M. Grieman, Helene H. Hoffmann, Jack D. Humby, Christoph Nehrbass-Ahles, Rachael H. Rhodes, Isobel F. Rowell, Frédéric Parrenin, Loïc Schmidely, Hubertus Fischer, Thomas F. Stocker, Marcus Christl, Raimund Muscheler, Amaelle Landais, and Frédéric Prié
Clim. Past, 19, 851–864, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-19-851-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-19-851-2023, 2023
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15 Mar 2023
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The new Kr-86 excess ice core proxy for synoptic activity: West Antarctic storminess possibly linked to Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) movement through the last deglaciation
Christo Buizert, Sarah Shackleton, Jeffrey P. Severinghaus, William H. G. Roberts, Alan Seltzer, Bernhard Bereiter, Kenji Kawamura, Daniel Baggenstos, Anaïs J. Orsi, Ikumi Oyabu, Benjamin Birner, Jacob D. Morgan, Edward J. Brook, David M. Etheridge, David Thornton, Nancy Bertler, Rebecca L. Pyne, Robert Mulvaney, Ellen Mosley-Thompson, Peter D. Neff, and Vasilii V. Petrenko
Clim. Past, 19, 579–606, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-19-579-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-19-579-2023, 2023
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09 Mar 2023
Progress of the RADIX (Rapid Access Drilling and Ice eXtraction) fast-access drilling system
Jakob Schwander, Thomas F. Stocker, Remo Walther, and Samuel Marending
The Cryosphere, 17, 1151–1164, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-1151-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-1151-2023, 2023
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02 Feb 2023
Temporal variations of surface mass balance over the last 5000 years around Dome Fuji, Dronning Maud Land, East Antarctica
Ikumi Oyabu, Kenji Kawamura, Shuji Fujita, Ryo Inoue, Hideaki Motoyama, Kotaro Fukui, Motohiro Hirabayashi, Yu Hoshina, Naoyuki Kurita, Fumio Nakazawa, Hiroshi Ohno, Konosuke Sugiura, Toshitaka Suzuki, Shun Tsutaki, Ayako Abe-Ouchi, Masashi Niwano, Frédéric Parrenin, Fuyuki Saito, and Masakazu Yoshimori
Clim. Past, 19, 293–321, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-19-293-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-19-293-2023, 2023
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