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Zuiderweg, A., Holzinger, R., Martinerie, P., Schneider, R., Kaiser, J. 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1553-4043, Witrant, E., Etheridge, D., Petrenko, V., Blunier, T. and Röckmann, T.
(2013)
Extreme 13C depletion of CCl2F2 in firn air samples from NEEM, Greenland.
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 13 (2).
pp. 599-609.
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Abstract
A series of 12 high volume air samples collected from the S2 firn core during the North Greenland Eemian Ice Drilling (NEEM) 2009 campaign have been measured for mixing ratio and stable carbon isotope composition of the chlorofluorocarbon CFC-12 (CCl2F2). While the mixing ratio measurements compare favorably to other firn air studies, the isotope results show extreme 13C depletion at the deepest measurable depth (65 m), to values lower than d13C = -80‰ vs. VPDB (the international stable carbon isotope scale), compared to present day surface tropospheric measurements near -40‰. Firn air modeling was used to interpret these measurements. Reconstructed atmospheric time series indicate even larger depletions (to -120‰) near 1950 AD, with subsequent rapid enrichment of the atmospheric reservoir of the compound to the present day value. Mass-balance calculations show that this change is likely to have been caused by a large change in the isotopic composition of anthropogenic CFC-12 emissions, probably due to technological advances in the CFC production process over the last 80 yr, though direct evidence is lacking.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Science > School of Environmental Sciences University of East Anglia Research Groups/Centres > Theme - ClimateUEA |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (former - to 2017) Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Atmospheric Chemistry (former - to 2018) Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Climate, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences (former - to 2017) Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Centre for Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences |
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| Depositing User: | Pure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 08 Oct 2013 01:59 |
| Last Modified: | 20 Mar 2023 10:37 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/43595 |
| DOI: | 10.5194/acp-13-599-2013 |
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