Carbon-13 Isotopic Composition of Atmospheric Methane in Firn Air, South Pole and Siple Dome, Antarctica

Data Contributors SOWERS, TODD A. Parameters ICE CORE RECORDS > ISOTOPES > CARBON-13 OF METHANE Instruments MASS SPECTROMETERS

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This data set includes records of the delta carbon-13 (δ¹³C) of methane (CH₄) in firn air from the South Pole and trapped in bubbles in a short ice core from Siple Dome, Antarctica. Using two firn air samples, one from January 1995 and the other from January 2001, investigators reconstructed records of the isotopic composition of paleoatmospheric methane covering the last 2 centuries, from 1820 to 2001.

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Todd Sowers. 2007. Carbon-13 Isotopic Composition of Atmospheric Methane in Firn Air, South Pole and Siple Dome, Antarctica. [indicate subset used]. Boulder, Colorado USA: National Snow and Ice Data Center. http://dx.doi.org/10.7265/N5ST7MR2.

See Also

• Firn Air Inert Gas and Oxygen Observations from Siple Dome, 1996, and the South Pole, 2001
• Firn Air Isotope and Temperature Measurements from Siple Dome and South Pole
• Siple Dome Core Date from Measurement of the d18O of Paleoatmospheric O2
• Siple Dome Highlights: Stable isotopes
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