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Article Dans Une Revue Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres Année : 2019

Influence of Summer Sublimation on δD, δ 18 O, and δ 17 O in Precipitation, East Antarctica, and Implications for Climate Reconstruction From Ice Cores

Hans Christian Steen-Larsen
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Wangbin Zhang
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Shuangye Wu
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Yuansheng Li
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Chunlei An
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Yetang Wang
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Barbara Stenni
Claudio Scarchilli
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Koji Fujita
Paolo Grigioni
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In central Antarctica, where accumulation rates are very low, summer sublimation of surface snow is a key element of the surface mass balance, but its fingerprint in isotopic composition of water (δD, δ 18 O, and δ 17 O) remains unclear. In this study, we examined the influence of summer sublimation on δD, δ 18 O, and δ 17 O in precipitation using data sets of isotopic composition of precipitation at various sites on the inland East Antarctica. We found unexpectedly low δ 18 O values in the summer precipitation, decoupled from surface air temperatures. This feature can be explained by the combined effects of weak or nonexistent temperature inversion and moisture recycling associated with sublimation-condensation processes in summer. Isotopic fractionation during the moisture-recycling process also explains the observed high values of d-excess and 17 O-excess in summer precipitation. Our results suggest that the local cycle of sublimation-condensation in summer is an important process for the isotopic composition of surface snow, water vapor, and consequently precipitation on inland East Antarctica.
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insu-02346785 , version 1 (05-11-2019)

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Hongxi Pang, Shugui Hou, Amaëlle Landais, Valérie Masson-Delmotte, Jean Jouzel, et al.. Influence of Summer Sublimation on δD, δ 18 O, and δ 17 O in Precipitation, East Antarctica, and Implications for Climate Reconstruction From Ice Cores. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 2019, 124 (13), pp.7339-7358. ⟨10.1029/2018JD030218⟩. ⟨insu-02346785⟩
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