HR: 13:55h
AN: U23A-02 INVITED [Abstracts]
TI: A High Resolution Isotopic ice Core Record Covering the Last 800 000 Years.
AU: * Jouzel, J
EM: jouzel@lsce.saclay.cea.fr
AF: IPSL/ Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, Orme des merisiers, Gif sur Yvette,
91191
France
AU: Cattani, O
EM: cattani@lsce.saclay.cea.fr
AF: IPSL/ Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, Orme des merisiers, Gif sur Yvette,
91191
France
AU: Dreyfus, G
EM: dreyfus@lsce.saclay.cea.fr
AF: IPSL/ Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, Orme des merisiers, Gif sur Yvette,
91191
France
AU: Falourd, S
EM: falourd@lsce.saclay.cea.fr
AF: IPSL/ Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, Orme des merisiers, Gif sur Yvette,
91191
France
AU: MAsson-Delmotte, V
EM: masson@lsce.saclay.cea.fr
AF: IPSL/ Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, Orme des merisiers, Gif sur Yvette,
91191
France
AU: Nouet, J
EM: nouet@lsce.saclay.cea.fr
AF: IPSL/ Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, Orme des merisiers, Gif sur Yvette,
91191
France
AU: Oerter, H
AF: Alfred Wegener Institute, Postfach 120161, Bremerhaven, 27515
Germany
AU: Johnsen, S
EM: sigfus@mail.gfy.ku.dk
AF: Department of Geophysics, Juliane Maries Vej 30, Copenhagen, 2100
Denmark
AU: Parrenin, F
EM: Frederic.Parrenin@notos.cst.cnes.fr
AF: Laboratoire de Glaciologie et G‚ophysique de l'Environnement, 5' Rue MoliŠre, St Martin d'Heres, 38402
France
AU: Stenni, B
EM: stenni@univ.trieste.it
AF: Dept. of Geological, Environmental and Marine Sciences, University of Trieste, Trieste, 34127
Italy
AB:
The two cores drilled at the Dome C site in East Antarctica (elevation 3233 m, mean annual temperature, - 54.5øC) in the
framework of the European Program for Ice Coring in Antarctica, now provide a continuous deuterium profile covering the last
800 ky. Thanks to a recent extension over its last 60 meters, the 3201 m Antarctic climate record now extends back to marine
stage 20. Whereas published data (EPICA Community members, 2004) are of low temporal resolution (e.g. 3000 years), we will
have at the time of the meeting a much more detailed deuterium profile to present, at least for most of the core. We will
first discuss the EPICA profile in view of existing East Antarctic ice core records (Vostok and Dome F) and its temperature
interpretation. This comparison will also include the results from the second EPICA core drilled at Kohnen Station in the
Atlantic sector of East Antarctica, available at that time. We will then focus on the spectral properties of the 800 ky
climate record and on its comparison with marine records. Of particular interest are the change of pacing before and after
the MBE (Mid-Brunhes Event) and the timing and duration of stadials, interstadials, and interglacials which will lead us to
discuss how the EPICA timescale was derived. Particular attention will be paid to the last glacial cycle, for which the EPICA
deuterium record shows counterparts for each of the successive Dansgaard/Oeschger events, both for large and small ones,
with possible implications for the seesaw mechanism.
DE: 3344 Paleoclimatology
DE: 4267 Paleoceanography
DE: 1600 GLOBAL CHANGE (New category)
SC: Union [U]
MN: 2004 AGU Fall Meeting