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Dome Fuji Ice Core

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A deep ice core to 2503m at Dome Fuji, Antarctica ( 77°19'S, 39°42'E, elevation 3810m.) was recovered during 1995-1996. A second deep core was started in 2003. During the 2005/2006 austral summer, core was recovered to the depth of 3028.52 m, and in 2006/2007 a depth of 3035.22m was reached.
References:
Kawamura, K., T. Nakazawa, S. Aoki, S. Sugawara, Y. Fujii, and O. Watanabe. 2003.
Atmospheric CO2 variations over the last three glacial-interglacial climatic cycles deduced from the Dome Fuji deep ice core, Antarctica using a wet extraction technique
Tellus, 55B, 126-137.
Kawamura, K., F. Parrenin, L. Lisiecki, R. Uemura, F. Vimeux, J. P. Severinghaus, M. A. Hutterli, T. Nakazawa, S. Aoki, J. Jouzel, M. E. Raymo, K. Matsumoto, H. Nakata, H. Motoyama, S. Fujita, K. Goto-Azuma, Y. Fujii, and O. Watanabe. 2007.
Northern Hemisphere forcing of climatic cycles in Antarctica over the past 360,000 years
Nature, 448, 912-916.
Uemura, R., N. Yoshida, N. Kurita, M. Nakawo, and O. Watanabe. 2004.
An observation-based method for reconstructing ocean surface changes using a 340,000-year deuterium excess record from the Dome Fuji ice core, Antarctica.
Geophys. Res. Lett., 31, doi:10.1029/2004GL019954.
Watanabe, O., J. Jouzel, S. Johnsen, F. Parrenin, H. Shoji, and N. Yoshida. 2003.
Homogeneous climate variability across East Antarctica over the past three glacial cycles.
Nature, Vol. 422, pp. 509-512.
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