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  <Entry_Title>Nitrogen and Oxygen Gas Isotopes in the Siple Dome and Byrd Ice Cores, Antarctica</Entry_Title>
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    <Dataset_Creator>Severinghaus, J.</Dataset_Creator>
    <Dataset_Title>Nitrogen and Oxygen Gas Isotopes in the Siple Dome and Byrd Ice Cores, Antarctica</Dataset_Title>
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  <Keyword>Firn Air Isotopes</Keyword>
  <Keyword>Firn Isotopes</Keyword>
  <Keyword>Gas Isotopes</Keyword>
  <Keyword>Ice Cores</Keyword>
  <Keyword>Nitrogen Isotopes</Keyword>
  <Keyword>Oxygen Isotopes</Keyword>
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  <Keyword>Siple Dome</Keyword>
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    <Short_Name>CORING DEVICES</Short_Name>
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    <Short_Name>MASS SPECTROMETERS</Short_Name>
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    <Start_Date>2005-01-01</Start_Date>
    <Stop_Date>2008-12-31</Stop_Date>
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  <Data_Set_Progress>complete</Data_Set_Progress>
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    <Southernmost_Latitude>-80.016667</Southernmost_Latitude>
    <Northernmost_Latitude>-80.016667</Northernmost_Latitude>
    <Westernmost_Longitude>-119.533333</Westernmost_Longitude>
    <Easternmost_Longitude>-119.533333</Easternmost_Longitude>
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  <Project>
    <Short_Name>NSF/OPP</Short_Name>
    <Long_Name>Office of Polar Programs, National Science Foundation</Long_Name>
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    <Short_Name>WAISCORES</Short_Name>
    <Long_Name>West Antarctic Ice Sheet Cores</Long_Name>
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  <Data_Set_Language>English</Data_Set_Language>
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        <Country>USA</Country>
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    <Data_Center_Name>
      <Short_Name>NSIDC_AGDC</Short_Name>
      <Long_Name>NSIDC Antarctic Glaciological Data Center</Long_Name>
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    <Distribution_Media>FTP</Distribution_Media>
    <Distribution_Size>4.1 MB</Distribution_Size>
    <Distribution_Format>Microsoft Excel</Distribution_Format>
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  <Reference>Severinghaus, J.P., R. Beaudette, M. Headly, K. Taylor, E.J. Brook, Oxygen-18 of O2 Records the Impact of Abrupt Climate Change on the Terrestrial Biosphere, Science 324, 1431-1434 (2009).  doi: 10.1126/science.1169473</Reference>
  <Summary>This data set consists of Gas-isotopic data from the Siple Dome and and Greenland Ice Sheet Project 2 (GISP2) ice cores covering roughly the last 100,000 years (100 ka), consisting of d15N (15N/14N) of N2, d18O (18O/16O) of O2, dO2/N2, and dAr/N2. Derived parameters include d18Oatm, d15N, dO2/N2, and dAr/N2. 

Data are available via FTP as ASCII text files (.txt) and Microsoft Excel files (.xls).</Summary>
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  <Metadata_Name>CEOS IDN DIF</Metadata_Name>
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  <DIF_Creation_Date>2009-07-17</DIF_Creation_Date>
  <Last_DIF_Revision_Date>2013-03-20</Last_DIF_Revision_Date>
  <DIF_Revision_History> Added DOI</DIF_Revision_History>
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