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Article Dans Une Revue Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres Année : 2001

Dating the Vostok ice core by an inverse method

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Using the chronological information available in the Vostok records, we apply an inverse method to assess the quality of the Vostok glaciological timescale. The inversion procedure provides not only an optimized glaciological timescale and its confidence interval but also a reliable estimate of the duration of successive events. Our results highlight a disagreement between orbitally tuned and glaciological timescales below ∼2700 m (i.e., ∼250 kyr B.P., thousands of years before present). This disagreement could be caused by some discontinuity in the spatial variation of accumulation upstream of Vostok. Moreover, the stratigraphic datings of central Greenland ice cores (GRIP and GISP2) appear older than our optimized timescale for the late glacial. This underlines an unconsistency between the physical assumptions used to construct the Vostok glaciological timescale and the stratigraphic datings. The inverse method allows the first assessment of the evolution of the phase between Vostok climatic records and insolation. This phase significantly varies with time which gives a measure of the nonlinear character of the climatic system and suggests that the climatic response to orbital forcing is of different nature for glacial and interglacial periods. We confirm that the last interglacial, as recorded in the Vostok deuterium record, was long (16.2±2 kyr, thousands of years). However, midtransition of termination II occurred at 133.4±2.5 kyr BP, which does not support the recent claim for an earlier deglaciation. Finally, our study suggests that temperature changes are correctly estimated when using the spatial present‐day deuterium‐temperature relationship to interpret the Vostok deuterium record.
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hal-02916204 , version 1 (12-10-2020)

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Frédéric Parrenin, Jean Jouzel, Claire Waelbroeck, Catherine Ritz, Jean-Marc Barnola. Dating the Vostok ice core by an inverse method. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 2001, 106 (D23), pp.31837-31851. ⟨10.1029/2001JD900245⟩. ⟨hal-02916204⟩
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