Book contents
- Synoptic Paleoclimatology
- Synoptic Paleoclimatology
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Part I Atmosphere–Ocean Circulation and Synoptic Paleoclimatology
- Part II Synoptic Circulation and Weather Regimes
- Part III Synoptic Paleoclimate from the Natural Archive – Environmental Impact to PaleoWeather Regimes
- 6 The Coastal Geomorphic Archive of Ocean Wave Climate and Paleoweather
- 7 The Tropical Archive of Marine Paleoweather, Climate, and Sea Level
- 8 The Tropical to Subantarctic Glacial Archive and Response to Weather and Climate
- 9 Tropical to Subantarctic Regional Glacier–Weather Regime Relationships and Glacial History
- 10 The Ice Core Archive Part 1: Hydroclimate, Stable Isotopes and Weather Regimes
- 11 The Ice Core Archive Part 2: Aerosol Tracers to Air Mass Trajectories and Weather Regimes
- Part IV Synoptic Paleoclimate Reconstruction, Data–Model Assimilation, and Causal Networks
- References
- Index
10 - The Ice Core Archive Part 1: Hydroclimate, Stable Isotopes and Weather Regimes
from Part III - Synoptic Paleoclimate from the Natural Archive – Environmental Impact to PaleoWeather Regimes
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 September 2025
Book contents
- Synoptic Paleoclimatology
- Synoptic Paleoclimatology
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Part I Atmosphere–Ocean Circulation and Synoptic Paleoclimatology
- Part II Synoptic Circulation and Weather Regimes
- Part III Synoptic Paleoclimate from the Natural Archive – Environmental Impact to PaleoWeather Regimes
- 6 The Coastal Geomorphic Archive of Ocean Wave Climate and Paleoweather
- 7 The Tropical Archive of Marine Paleoweather, Climate, and Sea Level
- 8 The Tropical to Subantarctic Glacial Archive and Response to Weather and Climate
- 9 Tropical to Subantarctic Regional Glacier–Weather Regime Relationships and Glacial History
- 10 The Ice Core Archive Part 1: Hydroclimate, Stable Isotopes and Weather Regimes
- 11 The Ice Core Archive Part 2: Aerosol Tracers to Air Mass Trajectories and Weather Regimes
- Part IV Synoptic Paleoclimate Reconstruction, Data–Model Assimilation, and Causal Networks
- References
- Index
Summary
This chapter focuses on Antarctic ice core science and the reconstruction of hydroclimate and weather regimes. It covers ice core site selection, temporal resolution, sampling methods, isotope and chemical measurement, dating chronologies, and ice coring projects and databanks. Antarctic precipitation and snow/ice accumulation regimes are key parameters for ice core analysis, including precipitation type and air-mass source, together with processes driving snow accumulation, and surface mass balance characteristics related to temperature, surface wind field, and surface microrelief: sublimation, evaporation, blowing snow, condensation, and surface meltwater. Coastal ice cap, ice shelf, and landfast ice behaviour is reflected in snow accumulation, temperature, and meltwater production. A detailed treatment of stable isotope analysis of water and the relationship to air masses and weather regimes covers spatial and temporal isotope–temperature relationships as the basis for paleothermometry, Antarctic ice core isotope–moisture source relationships to Southern Hemisphere air masses, and air mass trajectory analyses applied to reconstruct isotope–weather regime relationships.
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- Synoptic PaleoclimatologyThe Weather Regime Approach from the Tropics to the Poles, pp. 453 - 497Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2025
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