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CLIMATE OF THE PAST
卷 16, 期 4, 页码 1581-1598出版社
COPERNICUS GESELLSCHAFT MBH
DOI: 10.5194/cp-16-1581-2020
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- Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Germany) project DEAPICE
- Polar Regions and Coasts in the Changing Earth System (PACES) programme of the Alfred Wegener Institute
- European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union [716092]
- European Research Council (ERC) [716092] Funding Source: European Research Council (ERC)
The isotopic signal (delta O-18 and delta D) imprinted in ice cores from Antarctica is not solely generated by the temperature sensitivity of the isotopic composition of precipitation, but it also contains the signature of the intermittency of the precipitation patterns, as well as of post-deposition processes occurring at the surface and in the firn. This leads to a proxy signal recorded by the ice cores that may not be representative of the local climate variations. Due to precipitation intermittency, the ice cores only record brief snapshots of the climatic conditions, resulting in aliasing of the climatic signal and thus a large amount of noise which reduces the minimum temporal resolution at which a meaningful signal can be retrieved. The analyses are further complicated by isotopic diffusion, which acts as a low-pass filter that dampens any high-frequency changes. Here, we use reanalysis data (ERA-Interim) combined with satellite products of accumulation to evaluate the spatial distribution of the numerical estimates of the transfer function that describes the formation of the isotopic signal across Antarctica. As a result, the minimum timescales at which the signal-to-noise ratio exceeds unity range from less than 1 year at the coast to about 1000 years further inland. Based on solely physical processes, we are thus able to define a lower bound for the timescales at which climate variability can be reconstructed from the isotopic composition in ice cores.
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