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The Akademii Nauk ice core and solar activity Research Unit Potsdam Telegrafenberg A45 14473 Potsdam www.awi.de Partner-Logo References Acknowledgements Akhmadaliev, S. et al., Nucl. Instrum. Meth. Res. B, 294 (2013), 5-10 Muscheler, R. et al., Quat. Sci. Rev., 24 (2005), 1849-1860 Opel, T. et al., Clim. Past., 9 (2013), 2379-2389 Rugel, G. et al., Nucl. Instrum. Meth. Res. B, 370 (2016), 94-100 Sigl, M. et al., Nature, 523 (2015), 543-549 Steinhilber, F. et al., PNAS, 109 (2012), 5967-5971 Albedyll, L. von et al., J. Glaciol., 63 (2017), 514-522 1) 1),2) 3) 1),4) 3) 3) Diedrich Fritzsche , Luisa von Albedyll , Silke Merchel , Thomas Opel , Georg Rugel , Andreas Scharf 1) 2) 3) 4) Alfred Wegener Institute, Potsdam University of Bremen Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf University of Sussex Knowledge of the natural climate variability is essential for the understanding and assessment of the recent climate change and reliable predictions of future climate. In the Arctic, a key region for the global climate system and more affected by the ongoing warming than other regions, meteorological records are relatively th short, with only a few time series starting before the 20 century. Hence, climate archives, especially high-resolution ones like ice cores, are of particular importance for the assessment of past and recent climate changes. To gain new high-resolution proxy data for the reconstruction of climate and environmental changes, in 1999-2001 a 724 m long ice core was drilled near the summit of Akademii Nauk (AN) ice cap, the largest glacier on Severnaya Zemlya (Fig. 1) within a joined German - Russian project (Fritzsche et al., 2002). The first 18 core chronology was based on annual layer counting using d O, 137 dD and d-excess data, cross-checked by radioactive ( Cs) horizons and non-sea-salt (nss) SO peaks interpreted as volcanic 4 signals. The Akademii Nauk ice cap has a relatively low altitude compared to Greenland and is affected by melting and infiltration processes in summertime. Percolating waters cause alterations of original isotopic and chemical signals, which makes the interpretation more difficult. This requires an additional climate- independent approach to validate the age model. The concentration of cosmogenic radionuclides in ice cores reflects the solar activity in the past and, thus, can be used as a dating tool for ice cores. Accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) allows the determination of nuclides in high resolution. Using a 10 core-sampling strategy for Be developed by von Albedyll et al. (2017) more than 500 AN ice-core samples were taken, chemically treated and analysed at the DREAMS (DREsden Accelerator Mass Spectrometry) facility of the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (Akhmadaliev et al., 2013; Rugel et al., 2016) using the 6 MV accelerator of the Ion Beam Center (Fig. 5). For the time period 430 to 2000 AD - corresponding to core depth 10 of 0 m to 452 m - the temporal variations of Be reflect the centennial variations of solar activity known from Greenlandic and 14 Antarctic ice cores and from reconstructions of C production (Fig. 2). 10 In the AN core the strongest Be peak was found at a depth of 402.22 m (Fig. 3) corresponding to the strongest known solar energetic particle storm in 774/775 AD (Sigl et al., 2015; Sukhodolov et al., 2017). It was used as an additional tie point for the AN core chronology. Additionally, slight indications for the 1859 solar storm (Carrington event) were found in AN core but much weaker than the 774/775 AD event. A high-resolution record of environmental data at AN was reconstructed for the last millennium by Opel et al. (2013). Here, 18 we present the extended d O record (temperature proxy) for 430 to 2000 AD using the updated chronology (Fig. 4). Fig.1: Map of the Arctic. Inset: Severnaya Zemlya with Akademii Nauk ice cap and drilling site at 80°31'N 94°49'E (altitude about 750 m a.s.l.). 10 14 Fig.2: Concentration of Be in the AN ice core compared with C production after Muscheler et al., 2005 and the first principal component of 10 Be records from ice cores drilled at NGRIP, Dye3 (both Greenland) and at South Pole after Steinhilber et al., 2012. Akademii Nauk ice cap Severnaya Zemlya Akademii Nauk A 10 Fig.3: The distinct Be peak in 774/775 AD (A) is related to the strongest solar energetic particle (SEP) event known. Slight indications of the first directely observed SEP, the so called “Carrington Event” in 1859 AD (B), were detected, but the signal might be about 30 times weaker than the event of 774/775 AD. 18 Fig.4: d O record of the upper 452 m of AN ice core, using an updated core chronology considering the tie point of 774/775 AD. B Carrington Event 1859 ? Fig.5: DREAMS (DREsden Accelerator Mass Spectrometry) facility: Machine layout E.S.A. = electrostatic analyser). Fritzsche, D. et al., Ann. Glaciol., 35 (2002), 25-28 „685 AD“ Minimum Oort Minimum Wolf Minimum Spörer Minimum Maunder Minimum Dalton Minimum Modern Maximum Medieval Maximum 1.5E+05 5.0E+04 4.5E+04 4.0E+04 3.5E+04 3.0E+04 2.5E+04 2.0E+04 1.5E+04 1.0E+04 5.0E+03 0.0E+00 SEP 31.8.2012 (c) NASA Goddard Space Flight Center 10 AN Be 10 AN Be 10 AN Be 10 AN Be 10 Be 14 C 1.5E+05 1.0E+05 5.0E+04 0.0E+00 1.5E+05 1.0E+05 5.0E+04 0.0E+00 10 AN Be [at./g] 10 AN Be [at./g] 10 AN Be [at./g] Parts of this research were carried out at the Ion Beam Centre (IBC) at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf e. V., a member of the Helmholtz Association. Insightful discussions with D. Wagenbach (Heidelberg University, deceased) and his generous support are highly appreciated and valued. We thank Andreas Scharf, Shavkat Akhmadaliev and Santiago M. Enamorado Baez for their support to AMS measurements. The chemical sample preparation has been supported by Loic le Bras (France), Tina Köhler, Vicki Kühn, Malin Lüdicke, Katharina Stock, Collin Tiessen (Canada), Stephanie Uhlig, Hannes Wenzel and René Ziegenrücker. 1.9 1.7 1.5 1.3 1.1 0.9 0.7 0.5
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The Akademii Nauk ice core and solar activity

Research Unit Potsdam

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www.awi.de

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References AcknowledgementsAkhmadaliev, S. et al., Nucl. Instrum. Meth. Res. B, 294 (2013), 5-10

Muscheler, R. et al., Quat. Sci. Rev., 24 (2005), 1849-1860Opel, T. et al., Clim. Past., 9 (2013), 2379-2389 Rugel, G. et al., Nucl. Instrum. Meth. Res. B, 370 (2016), 94-100Sigl, M. et al., Nature, 523 (2015), 543-549Steinhilber, F. et al., PNAS, 109 (2012), 5967-5971

Albedyll, L. von et al., J. Glaciol., 63 (2017), 514-522

1) 1),2) 3) 1),4) 3) 3)Diedrich Fritzsche , Luisa von Albedyll , Silke Merchel , Thomas Opel , Georg Rugel , Andreas Scharf1) 2) 3) 4) Alfred Wegener Institute, Potsdam University of Bremen Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf University of Sussex

Knowledge of the natural climate variability is essential for the understanding and assessment of the recent climate change and reliable predictions of future climate. In the Arctic, a key region for the global climate system and more affected by the ongoing warming than other regions, meteorological records are relatively

thshort, with only a few time series starting before the 20 century. Hence, climate archives, especially high-resolution ones like ice cores, are of particular importance for the assessment of past and recent climate changes.To gain new high-resolution proxy data for the reconstruction of climate and environmental changes, in 1999-2001 a 724 m long ice core was drilled near the summit of Akademii Nauk (AN) ice cap, the largest glacier on Severnaya Zemlya (Fig. 1) within a joined German - Russian project (Fritzsche et al., 2002). The first

18core chronology was based on annual layer counting using d O, 137dD and d-excess data, cross-checked by radioactive ( Cs)

horizons and non-sea-salt (nss) SO peaks interpreted as volcanic 4

signals. The Akademii Nauk ice cap has a relatively low altitude compared to Greenland and is affected by melting and infiltration processes in summertime. Percolating waters cause alterations of original isotopic and chemical signals, which makes the interpretation more difficult. This requires an additional climate-independent approach to validate the age model.The concentration of cosmogenic radionuclides in ice cores reflects the solar activity in the past and, thus, can be used as a dating tool for ice cores. Accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) allows the determination of nuclides in high resolution. Using a

10core-sampling strategy for Be developed by von Albedyll et al. (2017) more than 500 AN ice-core samples were taken, chemically treated and analysed at the DREAMS (DREsden Accelerator Mass Spectrometry) facility of the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (Akhmadaliev et al., 2013; Rugel et al., 2016) using the 6 MV accelerator of the Ion Beam Center (Fig. 5). For the time period 430 to 2000 AD - corresponding to core depth

10of 0 m to 452 m - the temporal variations of Be reflect the centennial variations of solar activity known from Greenlandic and

14Antarctic ice cores and from reconstructions of C production (Fig. 2).

10In the AN core the strongest Be peak was found at a depth of 402.22 m (Fig. 3) corresponding to the strongest known solar energetic particle storm in 774/775 AD (Sigl et al., 2015; Sukhodolov et al., 2017). It was used as an additional tie point for the AN core chronology. Additionally, slight indications for the 1859 solar storm (Carrington event) were found in AN core but much weaker than the 774/775 AD event.A high-resolution record of environmental data at AN was reconstructed for the last millennium by Opel et al. (2013). Here,

18we present the extended d O record (temperature proxy) for 430 to 2000 AD using the updated chronology (Fig. 4).

Fig.1: Map of the Arctic.

Inset: Severnaya Zemlya with Akademii Nauk ice cap and drilling site at 80°31'N 94°49'E (altitude about 750 m a.s.l.).

10 14Fig.2: Concentration of Be in the AN ice core compared with C production after Muscheler et al., 2005 and the first principal component of 10Be records from ice cores drilled at NGRIP, Dye3 (both Greenland) and at South Pole after Steinhilber et al., 2012.

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10Fig.3: The distinct Be peak in 774/775 AD (A) is related to the strongest solar energetic particle (SEP) event known. Slight indications of the first directely observed SEP, the so called “Carrington Event” in 1859 AD (B), were detected, but the signal might be about 30 times weaker than the event of 774/775 AD.

18Fig.4: d O record of the upper 452 m of AN ice core, using an updated core chronology considering the tie point of 774/775 AD.

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