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- Title
Historical porosity data in polar firn.
- Authors
Fourteau, Kévin; Arnaud, Laurent; Faïn, Xavier; Martinerie, Patricia; Etheridge, David M.; Lipenkov, Vladimir; Barnola, Jean-Marc
- Abstract
In the 1990s, closed and open porosity volumes of firn samples were measured by J.-M. Barnola using the technique of gas pycnometry, on firn from three different polar sites. They are the basis of a parameterization of closed porosity in polar firn, first introduced in and used in several firn physics models e.g.,. However, these data and their processing have not been published in their own right yet. In this short article, we detail how they were processed by J.-M. Barnola and how the closed porosity parameterization was obtained. We show that the original data processing only partially accounts for the presence of reopened bubbles in the samples. Since the proper correction to apply for this effect is hard to estimate, we also processed the data without including a correction for reopened bubbles. Finally, we made these pycnometry data available in order to be used by the glaciology community, notably for the study of polar ice formation and of the composition of gas records in ice cores. They are hosted on the PANGAEA database: 10.1594/PANGAEA.907678.
- Subjects
PANGAEA (Supercontinent); POROSITY; ANTARCTIC ice; ICE cores; ELECTRONIC data processing; BUBBLES
- Publication
Earth System Science Data, 2020, Vol 12, Issue 2, p1171
- ISSN
1866-3508
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5194/essd-12-1171-2020