Articles | Volume 18, issue 17
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-12777-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-12777-2018
Research article
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06 Sep 2018
Research article |  | 06 Sep 2018

An 800-year high-resolution black carbon ice core record from Lomonosovfonna, Svalbard

Dimitri Osmont, Isabel A. Wendl, Loïc Schmidely, Michael Sigl, Carmen P. Vega, Elisabeth Isaksson, and Margit Schwikowski

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This study presents the first long-term and high-resolution refractory black carbon (rBC) ice core record from Svalbard, spanning the last 800 years. Our results show that rBC has had a predominant anthropogenic origin since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution in Europe and that rBC concentrations have been declining in the last 40 years. We discuss the impact of 20th century snowmelt on our record. We reconstruct biomass burning trends prior to 1800 by using a multi-proxy approach.
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