Gases in Firn Air and Shallow Ice at the WAIS Drilling Site, Antarctica

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Gases in Firn Air and Shallow Ice at the WAIS Drilling Site, Antarctica

Data Contributors

SALTZMAN, ERIC

Parameters

TRACE GASES/TRACE SPECIES

Instruments

CORING DEVICES
FLASKS
MASS SPECTROMETERS

Documentation Access Data

This data set contains trace gas measurements of air extracted from ice core samples from the West Antarctic Ice Sheet Divide A core (WAIS-D 05A). The WAIS A core was dry-drilled at the WAIS site during the 2005-2006 Antarctic field season. Data include trace gas species including ethane (C2H6), propane (C3H8), n-butane (n-C4H10), carbonyl sulfide (COS), carbon disulfide (CS2), methyl chloride (CH3Cl), methyl bromide (CH3Br), acetonitrile (CH3CN), and chlorofluorocarbon-12 (CFC-12), for 57 ice core samples. The data are available via FTP in Microsoft Excel (.xls) file format.

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Data Citation

The following example shows how to cite the use of this data set in a publication. List the principal investigators, year of data set release, data set title, publisher: NSIDC, and digital media.

Saltzman, Eric. 2009. Gases in Firn Air and Shallow Ice at the WAIS Drilling Site, Antarctica. Boulder, Colorado USA: National Snow and Ice Data Center. Digital media.