Name: Annualized Summer Sea Salt From the Law Dome Ice Core Chemistry Record, 1000-2009
Published: 2012-08-29
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Keywords: EARTH SCIENCE,PALEOCLIMATE,ICE CORE RECORDS,EARTH SCIENCE,CRYOSPHERE,SNOW/ICE,SNOW/ICE CHEMISTRY,CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA,GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR,CORING DEVICES,FIELD INVESTIGATION,FIELD SURVEYS,Ice Core,Law Dome

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Citation: Vance, T.R. (2012) Annualized Summer Sea Salt From the Law Dome Ice Core Chemistry Record, 1000-2009, Ver. 1, Australian Antarctic Data Centre - doi:10.26179/5d50ef2192dc4, Accessed: 2026-06-10
Title: Annualized Summer Sea Salt From the Law Dome Ice Core Chemistry Record, 1000-2009
Data Centre: Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia
DOI: doi:10.26179/5d50ef2192dc4
Created Date: 2012-08-28
Revision Date: 2025-01-15
Parent record: ASAC_757

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Description

This data set is the logged, annualised summer sea salt (December to March, DJFM) concentrations from the Law Dome ice core chemistry record, spanning 1000-2009 AD (dates apply to the year of JFM, so e.g. 1980 is an average of Dec 1979 and Jan-Mar 1980). The data are compiled from numerous ice cores drilled at the Law Dome site sequentially since 1987, and chronologically dated using volcanic horizons and annual layer counting.

The cores used are (chronologically from oldest data to newest):

DSS Main
DSS97
DSS0102
DSS0809
DSS0910

The dataset has 37 'missing' summer values in instances where insufficient ice core material was available. These missing summers have been filled using linear interpolation.

This work forms part of Australian Antarctic Science (AAS) project no. 757.

The record was published as an ENSO and eastern Australian rainfall proxy record in:

Vance, T. R., T. D. van Ommen, M. A. J. Curran, C. T. Plummer, A. D. Moy, (2012): A millennial proxy record of ENSO and eastern Australian rainfall from the Law Dome ice core, East Antarctica. Journal of Climate, doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00003.1

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Temporal Coverages

Spatial Coverages

Latitude: -66.77

Longitude: 112.8

Science Keywords

Additional Keywords

Ice Core
Law Dome

Locations

CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA
GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR

Platforms

FIELD INVESTIGATION
FIELD SURVEYS

Instruments

CORING DEVICES

Researchers

vance, tessa (INVESTIGATOR,TECHNICAL CONTACT)

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This data set conforms to the CCBY Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

Please follow instructions listed in the citation reference provided at http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/metadata/citation.cfm?entry_id=summer_sea_salt_1000-2009 when using these data.