Articles | Volume 11, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-11-2175-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-11-2175-2017
Research article
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12 Sep 2017
Research article |  | 12 Sep 2017

Constraints on post-depositional isotope modifications in East Antarctic firn from analysing temporal changes of isotope profiles

Thomas Münch, Sepp Kipfstuhl, Johannes Freitag, Hanno Meyer, and Thomas Laepple

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Stable water isotopes measured along two snow trenches sampled at Kohnen Station, Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica in the 2014/15 field season T. Münch, S. Kipfstuhl, J. Freitag, H. Meyer, and T. Laepple https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.876639

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The importance of post-depositional changes for the temperature interpretation of water isotopes is poorly constrained by observations. Here, for the first time, temporal isotope changes in the open-porous firn are directly analysed using a large array of shallow isotope profiles. By this, we can reject the possibility of post-depositional change beyond diffusion and densification as the cause of the discrepancy between isotope and local temperature variations at Kohnen Station, East Antarctica.