DOI: 10.5194/tc-8-1121-2014
Scopus记录号: 2-s2.0-84903644094
论文题名: How old is the ice beneath Dome A, Antarctica?
作者: Sun B ; , Moore J ; C ; , Zwinger T ; , Zhao L ; , Steinhage D ; , Tang X ; , Zhang D ; , Cui X ; , Martín C
刊名: Cryosphere
ISSN: 19940416
出版年: 2014
卷: 8, 期: 3 起始页码: 1121
结束页码: 1128
语种: 英语
英文关键词: age determination
; anisotropic medium
; dating method
; ice core
; ice thickness
; melting
; subglacial environment
; China
英文摘要: Chinese scientists will start to drill a deep ice core at Kunlun station near Dome A in the near future. Recent work has predicted that Dome A is a location where ice older than 1 million years can be found. We model flow, temperature and the age of the ice by applying a three-dimensional, thermomechanically coupled full-Stokes model to a 70 × 70 km2 domain around Kunlun station, using isotropic non-linear rheology and different prescribed anisotropic ice fabrics that vary the evolution from isotropic to single maximum at 1/3 or 2/3 depths. The variation in fabric is about as important as the uncertainties in geothermal heat flux in determining the vertical advection which in consequence controls both the basal temperature and the age profile. We find strongly variable basal ages across the domain since the ice varies greatly in thickness, and any basal melting effectively removes very old ice in the deepest parts of the subglacial valleys. Comparison with dated radar isochrones in the upper one third of the ice sheet cannot sufficiently constrain the age of the deeper ice, with uncertainties as large as 500 000 years in the basal age. We also assess basal age and thermal state sensitivities to geothermal heat flux and surface conditions. Despite expectations of modest changes in surface height over a glacial cycle at Dome A, even small variations in the evolution of surface conditions cause large variation in basal conditions, which is consistent with basal accretion features seen in radar surveys. © Author(s) 2014. CC Attribution 3.0 License. Citation statistics:
资源类型: 期刊论文
标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/74831
Appears in Collections: 影响、适应和脆弱性 气候变化与战略
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作者单位: Polar Research Institute of China, Shanghai 200129, China; College of Global Change and Earth System Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China; Arctic Centre, University of Lapland, P.O. Box 122, 96101 Rovaniemi, Finland; Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University, Villavägen 16, Uppsala, 75236, Sweden; CSC-IT Center for Science Ltd., Espoo, Finland; Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany; British Antarctic Survey, Natural Environment Research Council, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Recommended Citation:
Sun B,, Moore J,C,et al. How old is the ice beneath Dome A, Antarctica?[J]. Cryosphere,2014-01-01,8(3)