edcDust: EPICA Dome C - 800KYr edcDust Data

In mcrucifix/pleistocene: Datasets of glacial cycles (ice and ocean)

Description

edcDust record from the EPICA (European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica) Dome C ice core covering 0 to 800 kyr BP. Measurements of dust mass concentration and Fine Particle Percentage using both laser and Coulter Counter methods.

Usage

data(edcDust)

Format

A data frame with 5163 observations on the following variables.

CE

Date (yr, CE)

Dust

Fine Particle Percentage; particle concentration (micrograms/kilogram)

Depth

EDC99 depth (m)

Source

See the file ‘PKG/orig/EPICA/edc-dust2008.txt’. Original version at ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/icecore/antarctica/epica_domec/edc-dust2008.txt

References

Lambert, F., B. Delmonte, J.R. Petit, M. Bigler, P.R. Kaufmann, M.A. Hutterli, T.F. Stocker, U. Ruth, J.P. Steffensen and V. Maggi. 2008. Dust-climate couplings over the past 800,000 years from the EPICA Dome C ice core. Nature, Vol. 452, pp. 616-619, 3 April 2008. doi:10.1038/nature06763

Examples

data(edcDust)

mcrucifix/pleistocene documentation built on May 22, 2019, 3:20 p.m.