Elbrus Ice Core, Caucasus record of ammonia (NH4+)
- 1. Institute of geography RAS
Description
A deep ice core was drilled to bedrock (182.6 m) in 2009 on the western plateau of Mount Elbrus (ELB, 43°N, 42°E; 5115 m above sea level, asl) in the Caucasus (Russia). The upper 168.6 m (131.5 meters water equivalent, mwe) depth of the ice core were first dated by annual layer counting using pronounced seasonal variations in ammonium and succinate concentrations, both exhibiting well-marked winter minima (Mikhalenko et al., 2015; Preunkert et al., 2019). Chemical measurements were done with a Dionex ICS-1000 chromatograph equipped with a CS12 separator column for cations (Na+, K+, Mg2+, Ca2+, and NH4+), a Dionex 600 equipped with an AS11 separator column for anions (Cl-, NO3-, and SO42-) and light carboxylates. Detailed working conditions are given in Legrand et al. (2013). Using the winter ammonium/succinate minima we determined half-year summer and winter means of of ammonia (NH4+) from 1748 to 2009.
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- Mikhalenko, V., Kutuzov, S., Toropov, P., Legrand, M., Sokratov, S., Chernyakov, G., Lavrentiev, I., Preunkert, S., Kozachek, A., Vorobiev, M., Khairedinova, A., and Lipenkov, V.: Accumulation rates over the past 260 years archived in Elbrus ice core, Caucasus, Clim. Past, 20, 237–255, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-20-237-2024, 2024.
- Preunkert, S., Legrand, M., Kutuzov, S., Ginot, P., Mikhalenko, V., and Friedrich, R.: The Elbrus (Caucasus, Russia) ice core record – Part 1: reconstruction of past anthropogenic sulfur emissions in south-eastern Europe, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 19, 14119–14132, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-14119-2019, 2019.