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AN: PP51A-0199 [Abstracts]
TI: High-Time Resolution Analysis of Dust in the Dome Fuji Deep Ice Core, Antarctica: Relationship Between Dust and Calcium Ion
AU: * Miyake, T
EM: tmiyake@pmg.nipr.ac.jp
AF: National Institute of Polar Research, 1-9-10 Kaga, Itabashi-ku, Tokyo, 173-8515, Japan
AU: Iizuka, Y
EM: iizuka@lowtem.hokudai.ac.jp
AF: Institute of Low Temperature Science, Hokkaido University, Kita-19, Nishi-8, Kita-ku,
Sapporo, 060-0819, Japan
AU: Tatenuma, T
EM: tatenuma@pmg.nipr.ac.jp
AF: Department of Polar Science, School of Multidisciplinary Sciences, The Graduate University
for Advanced Studies, 1-9-10 Kaga, Itabashi-ku, Tokyo, 173-8515, Japan
AU: Yanagisawa, T
EM: kpksp549@ybb.ne.jp
AF: Department of Geosystem Sciences, College of Humanities and Sciences, Nihon
University, 3-25-40 Sakurajosui, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, 156-8550, Japan
AU: Sano, K
EM: sano4394k@j07.itscom.net
AF: The Graduate School of Integrated Basic Sciences, Nihon University, 3-25-40 Sakurajosui,
Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, 156-8550, Japan
AU: Uemura, R
EM: ruemura@pmg.nipr.ac.jp
AF: National Institute of Polar Research, 1-9-10 Kaga, Itabashi-ku, Tokyo, 173-8515, Japan
AU: Hondoh, T
EM: hnd@lowtem.hokudai.ac.jp
AF: Institute of Low Temperature Science, Hokkaido University, Kita-19, Nishi-8, Kita-ku,
Sapporo, 060-0819, Japan
AU: Fujii, Y
EM: fujii@nipr.ac.jp
AF: National Institute of Polar Research, 1-9-10 Kaga, Itabashi-ku, Tokyo, 173-8515, Japan
AB:
Microparticles (dust) in deep ice cores in polar area are well-known as an indicator of terrestrial materials. Dust
concentration variations in deep ice cores depend on variations of dust origin areas and atmospheric transport
intensity. Iizuka et al. (2004, 2006) reported that the short cycle signals such seasonal to a few years on sodium
and calcium ions preserved in Dome Fuji deep ice core. We conducted the high-depth resolution analysis of dust
in an deep ice core at Dome Fuji, Antarctica to study for possible paleoclimate indications of seasonal and/or
annual climate variations in the Holocene (depth:294.960 m-295.460 m), last glacial maximum (LGM: 540.725 m-
541.250 m) and glacial periods (2203.990 m-2204.500 m: MIS7c-7d). High-resolution analysis of dust was
conducted from 2 to 5 mm in thickness in these core samples. Dust concentrations in the ice cores are the
lowest in the Holocene samples (mean: 11.9 ppb), secondly in the glacial samples (mean: 41.0 ppb) and the
highest in the LGM samples (mean: 387 ppb), respectively. Correlation between dust concentration and non-
seasalt (nss)- calcium ion concentration in the cores are the highest in the LGM samples (r=0.91) and secondly
in the glacial samples (r=0.82), respectively. But, both @correlation was not unclear (r=0.26) in the Holocene
core samples. Nss-calcium ion/dust mass ratios, which were ratios of soluble calcium in terrestrial dust, were
0.133}0.098 (mean}S.D.) in the Holocene samples, 0.067}0.010 in the LGM samples and 0.129}0.032 in
the glacial samples, respectively, suggesting that mineral composition of calcium in dust varied in different
climate stages. Especially, standard deviation of the ratio was greater in the Holocene samples than other
samples, suggesting that mineral composition of calcium in dust changed in seasonal to a few years scale. On
the other hand, it is indicated that mineral composition of calcium in dust was relative stabilized in LGM samples,
because the fluctuation range of these ratios was smaller in this period than other periods.
DE: 1616 Climate variability (1635, 3305, 3309, 4215, 4513)
DE: 4904 Atmospheric transport and circulation
DE: 4932 Ice cores (0724)
SC: Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology [PP]
MN: 2007 Fall Meeting