Ice core chemistry, conductivity, and stable nitrate isotopic composition of the Samalas eruption in 1259 from the ISOL-ICE ice core, Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica

This dataset contains a subset of the ice core data for the ISOL-ICE core recovered from Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica in January 2017 ( https://doi.org/10.5285/9c972cfb-0ffa-4144-a943-da6eb82431d2). The subset reported here contains ice core data from the 1455 - 1227 AD period (60.80 - 79.45 m depth) and covers the volcanic eruption of Samalas, Indonesia in 1259. The ice core was dated by annual layer counting and identifying volcanic horizons as fixed time markers. Here we report i) the age-depth model over the 1455 - 1227 AD period, ii) high-resolution nitrate stable isotopic composition of discrete ice core samples, and iii) nitrate, sodium and magnesium mass concentrations and electrolytic meltwater conductivity from continuous flow analysis (CFA).

Funding was provided by the NERC grant NE/N011813/1.

Alternate title: Polar Data Centre (PDC) record GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01199

Date (Publication): 2019-07-25

Citation identifier: http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/dms/metadata.php?id= / GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01199

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
British Antarctic Survey		pdc@bas.ac.uk	Custodian
UK Polar Data Centre, Natural Environment Research Council, UK Research & Innovation	Winton, V., Caillon, N., Hauge, L., Mulvaney, R., Rix, J., Savarino, J., Tuckwell, R., & Frey, M.	pdc@bas.ac.uk	Originator

Maintenance and update frequency: Unknown

Keywords

NDGO0001

NERC OAI Harvesting

NERC_DDC

GCMD Parameter Valids

EARTH SCIENCE > Atmosphere > Aerosols
EARTH SCIENCE > Paleoclimate > Ice Core Records
EARTH SCIENCE > Paleoclimate > Ice Core Records > Isotopes

BAS Free-text keywords

Antarctica
Dronning Maud Land
ISOL-ICE
ice core
nitrate concentration
nitrate isotope

Use limitation: This data is governed by the NERC data policy http://www.nerc.ac.uk/research/sites/data/policy/ and supplied under Open Government Licence v.3 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/

Access constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: This data is governed by the NERC data policy http://www.nerc.ac.uk/research/sites/data/policy/ and supplied under Open Government Licence v.3 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/

Language: English

Topic category

Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere

Begin date: 1227-01-01

End date: 1455-12-31

Reference system identifier: OGP / urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326

Distribution format

Distributor contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Polar Data Centre - British Antarctic Survey		pdc@bas.ac.uk	Distributor

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
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Hierarchy level: Dataset

Domain consistency

Measure identification: INSPIRE / Conformity_001

Conformance result

Title: INSPIRE Data Specification on unknown theme Guidelines

Date

Explanation: See the referenced specification

Pass: No

Statement: Major ions: At the beginning, end and during the course of the day, a certified reference material (CRM; ERM-CA408 simulated rainwater standards; Sigma-Aldrich) was measured for quality control and yielded an accuracy of 107 %, and precision of 10 % for nitrate.

Major elements: At the beginning, end and during the course of the day, a certified reference material (CRM; ERM-CA408 simulated rainwater standards; Sigma-Aldrich) was measured for quality control and yielded an accuracy of 94 and 113 %, and precision of 10 and 13 % for sodium and magnesium.

Nitrate stable isotope ratios: Certified reference materials (IAEA USGS-32, USGS-34 and USGS-35; Böhlke et al., 1993; Böhlke et al., 2003) were prepared (matrix match 1 M NaCl solution; ACS grade) and subject to the same analytical procedures as snow and aerosol samples. For each batch of 60 samples, the overall accuracy of the method is estimated as the reduced standard deviation of the residuals from the linear regression between the measured reference materials (n = 16) and their expected values. For the ice core (n = 800), the average uncertainty values obtained for d18O, d17O, D17O and d15N were 2.8 ppth, 2.1 ppth 0.9 ppth and 2.9 ppth respectively.