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  1. Abbott PM, Niemeier U, Timmreck C, Riede F, McConnell JR, Severi M, Fischer H, Svensson A, Toohey M, Reinig F, SigL (2021) Volcanic climate forcing preceding the inception of the Younger Dryas: Implications for tracing the Laacher See eruption. Quaternary Science Reviews, 274. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2021.107260
  2. Ahn J, Brook E, Howell K (2009) A high-precision method for measurement of paleoatmospheric CO2 in small polar ice samples. Journal of Glaciology, 55(191), 499-506. https://doi.org/10.3189/002214309788816731
  3. Ahn J, Brook EJ, Mitchell L, Rosen J, McConnell J, Taylor K, Etheridge D, Rubino M (2012) Atmospheric CO2 over the last 1000 years: A high-resolution record from the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) Divide ice core. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 26, GB2027. https://doi.org/10.1029/2011GB004247
  4. Arienzo MM, McConnell JR, Murphy LN, Chellman N, Das S, Kipfstuhl S, Mulvaney R (2017) Holocene black carbon in Antarctica paralleled Southern Hemisphere climate. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 122. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017JD026599
  5. Aydin M, Britten GL, Montzka SA, Buizert C, Primeau F, Petrenko V, Battle MB, Nicewonger MR, Patterson J, Hmiel B, Saltzman ES (2020) Anthropogenic Impacts on Atmospheric Carbonyl Sulfide Since the 19th Century Inferred From Polar Firn Air and Ice Core Measurements. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 125, e2020JD033074. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JD033074
  6. Aydin M, Campbell JE, Fudge TJ, Cuffey KM, Nicewonger MR, Verhulst KR, Saltzman ES (2016) Changes in atmospheric carbonyl sulfide over the last 54,000 years inferred from measurements in Antarctic ice cores. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 121, 1943-1954. https://doi.org/10.1002/2015JD024235
  7. Aydin M, Fudge TJ, Verhulst KR, Nicewonger MR, Waddington ED, Saltzman ES (2014) Carbonyl sulfide hydrolysis in Antarctic ice cores and an atmospheric history for the last 8000 years. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, 119(13), 8500-8514. https://doi.org/10.1002/2014JD021618
  8. Aydin M, Verhulst KR, Saltzman ES, Battle MO, Montzka SA, Blake DR, Tang Q, Prather MJ (2011) Recent decreases in fossil-fuel emissions of ethane and methane derived from firn air. Nature, 476, 198-201. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature10352
  9. Aydin M, Montzka SA, Battle MO, Williams MB, De Bruyn WJ, Butler JH, Verhulst KR, Tatum C, Gun BK, Plotkin DA (2010) Post-coring entrapment of modern air in some shallow ice cores collected near the firn-ice transition: evidence from CFC-12 measurements in Antarctic firn air and ice cores. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 10, 5135-5144. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-10-5135-2010
  10. Banerjee A, Yeung LY, Murray LT, Tie X, Tierney JE, Legrande AN (2022) Clumped-isotope constraint on upper-tropospheric cooling during the Last Glacial Maximum. AGU Advances, 3, e2022AV000688, 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022AV000688
  11. Banta JR, McConnell JR, Frey MF, Bales RC, Taylor K (2008) Spatial and temporal variability in snow accumulation at the West Antarctic Ice Sheet Divide over recent centuries. Journal of Geophysical Research, 113(D23102). https://doi.org/10.1029/2008JD010235
  12. Barletta RE, Priscu JC, Mader HM, Jones WL, Roe CW (2012) Chemical Analysis of Ice Vein Microenvironments: II. Analysis of Glacial Samples from Greenland and the Antarctic. Journal of Glaciology, 58(212), 1109-1118. https://doi.org/10.3189/2012JoG12J112
  13. Battle MO, Severinghaus JP, Sofen ED, Plotkin D, Orsi AJ, Aydin M, Montzka SA, Sowers T, Tans PP (2011) Controls on the movement and composition of firn air at the West Antarctic Ice Sheet Divide. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 11, 11007-11021. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-11-11007-2011
  14. Bauer S E, Bausch A, Nazarenko L, Tsigaridis K, Xu B, Edwards R, Bisiaux M, McConnell J (2013) Historic and future black carbon deposition on the three ice caps: Ice-core measurements and model simulations from 1850 to 2100. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, 118, 7948-7961. https://doi.org/10.1002/jgrd.50612
  15. Bauska TK, Baggenstos D, Brook EJ, Mix AC, Marcott SA, Petrenko VV, Schaefer H, Severinghaus JP, Lee JE (2016) Carbon isotopes characterize rapid changes in atmospheric carbon dioxide during the last deglaciation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113(13), 3465-3470. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1513868113
  16. Bauska TK, Joos F, Mix AC, Roth R, Ahn J, Brook EJ (2015) Links between atmospheric carbon dioxide, the land carbon reservoir and climate over the past millennium. Nature Geoscience, 8, 383-387. https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo2422
  17. Bauska TK, Marcott SA, Brook EJ (2021) Abrupt changes in the global carbon cycle during the last glacial period. Nature Geoscience, 14, 91–96. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-020-00680-2
  18. Bereiter B, Kawamura K, Severinghaus JP (2018) New methods for measuring atmospheric heavy noble gas isotope and elemental ratios in ice core samples. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, 32, 801-814, https://doi.org/10.1002/rcm.8099
  19. Bereiter B, Shackleton S, Baggenstos D, Kawamura K, Severinghaus J (2018) Mean global ocean temperatures during the last glacial transition. Nature, 553, 39-44. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature25152
  20. Bisiaux MM, Edwards R, McConnell JR, Albert MR, Anschutz H, Neumann TA, Isaksson E, Penner JE (2012) Variability of black carbon deposition to the East Antarctic Plateau, 1800-2000 AD. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 12, 3799-3808. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-12-3799-2012
  21. Bisiaux MM, Edwards R, McConnell JR, Curran MAJ, Van Ommen TD, Smith AM, Neumann TA, Pasteris DR, Penner JE, Taylor K (2012) Changes in black carbon deposition to Antarctica from two high-resolution ice core records, 1850-2000 AD. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 12, 4107-4115. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-12-4107-2012
  22. Breton DJ, Koffman BG, Kurbatov AV, Kreutz KJ, Hamilton GS (2012) Quantifying Signal Dispersion in a Hybrid Ice Core Melting System. Environmental Science & Technology, 46(21), 11922-11928. https://doi.org/10.1021/es302041k
  23. Buizert C and Schmittner A (2015) Southern Ocean control of glacial AMOC stability and Dansgaard-Oeschger interstadial duration. Paleoceanography, 30(12), 1595-1612. https://doi.org/10.1002/2015PA002795
  24. Buizert C and Severinghaus JP (2016) Dispersion in deep polar firn driven by synoptic-scale surface pressure variability. The Cryosphere, 10, 2099-2111. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-2099-2016
  25. Buizert C, Cuffey KM, Severinghaus JP, Baggenstos D, Fudge TJ, Steig EJ, Markle BR, Winstrup M, Rhodes RH, Brook EJ, Sowers TA, Clow GD, Cheng H, Edwards RL, Sigl M, McConnell JR, Taylor KC (2015) The WAIS Divide deep ice core WD2014 chronology - Part 1: Methane synchronization (68-31 ka BP) and the gas age-ice age difference. Climate of the Past, 11, 153-173. https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-11-153-2015
  26. Buizert C, Fudge TJ, Roberts WHG, Steig EJ, Sherriff-Tadano S, Ritz C, Lefebvre E, Edwards J, Kawamura K, Oyabu I, Motoyama H, Kahle EC, Jones TR, Abe-Ouchi A, Obase T, Martin C, Corr H, Severinghaus JP, Beaudette R, Epifanio JA, Brook EJ, Martin K, Chappellaz J, Aoki S, Nakazawa T, Sowers TA, Alley RB, Ahn J, Sigl M, Severi M, Dunbar NW, Svensson A, Fegyveresi JM, He C, Liu Z, Zhu J, Otto-Bliesner BL, Lipenkov VY, Kageyama M, Schwander J (2021) Antarctic surface temperature and elevation during the Last Glacial Maximum. Science, 372(6546), 1097-1101. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abd2897
  27. Buizert C, Shackleton S, Severinghaus JP, Roberts WHG, Seltzer A, Bereiter B, Kawamura K, Baggenstos D, Orsi AJ, Oyabu I, Birner B, Morgan JD, Brook EJ, Etheridge DM, Thornton D, Bertler N, Pyne RL, Mulvaney R, Mosley-Thompson E, Neff PD, Petrenko VV (2023) The new Kr-86 excess ice core proxy for synoptic activity: West Antarctic storminess possibly linked to Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) movement through the last deglaciation. Climate of the Past, 19, 579-606. https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-19-579-2023
  28. Buizert C, Sigl M, Severi M, Markle BR, Wettstein JJ, McConnell JR, Pedro JB, Sodemann H, Goto-Azuma K, Kawamura K, Fujita S, Motoyama H, Hirabayashi M, Uemura R, Stenni B, Parrenin F, He F, Fudge TJ, Steig EJ (2018) Abrupt ice-age shifts in southern westerly winds and Antarctic climate forced from the north. Nature, 563, 681-685. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-018-0727-5
  29. Buizert C, Sowers T, Blunier T (2013) Assessment of diffusive isotopic fractionation in polar firn, and application to ice core trace gas records. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 361, 110-119. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2012.11.039
  30. Casto-Boggess LD, Golozar M, Butterworth AL, Mathies RA (2021) Optimization of Fluorescence Labeling of Trace Analytes: Application to Amino Acid Biosignature Detection with Pacific Blue. Analytical Chemistry, 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.analchem.1c04465
  31. Chan WS, Mah ML, Voigt DE, Fitzpatrick JJ and Talghader JJ (2014) Crystal orientation measurements using transmission and backscattering. Journal of Glaciology, 60(224), 1135-1139. https://doi.org/10.3189/2014JoG14J071
  32. Cole-Dai J, Ferris DG, Kennedy JA, Sigl M, McConnell JR, Fudge TJ, Geng L, Maselli OJ, Taylor KC, Souney JM (2021) Comprehensive record of volcanic eruptions in the Holocene (11,000 years) from the WAIS Divide, Antarctica ice core. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 126, e2020JD032855. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JD032855
  33. Cole-Dai C, Ferris DG, Lanciki A, Savarino J, Thiemens MH, McConnell JR (2013) Two likely stratospheric volcanic eruptions in the 1450s C.E. found in a bipolar, subannually dated 800 year ice core record. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, 118, 7459-7466. https://doi.org/10.1002/jgrd.50587
  34. Cole-Dai C, Ferris D, Lanciki A, Savarino J, Baroni M, Thiemens M (2009) Cold decade (AD 1810-1819) caused by Tambora (1815) and another (1809) stratospheric volcanic eruption. Geophysical Research Letters, 36(L22703). https://doi.org/10.1029/2009GL040882
  35. Conway H and Rasmussen LA (2009) Recent thinning and migration of the Western Divide, central West Antarctica. Geophysical Research Letters, 36(L12502). https://doi.org/10.1029/2009GL038072
  36. Cuffey KM, Clow GD, Steig EJ, Buizert C, Fudge TJ, Koutnik M, Waddington ED, Alley RA, Severinghaus JP (2016) Deglacial temperature history of West Antarctica. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113(50), 14249-1425. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1609132113
  37. D'Andrilli J, Foreman CM, Sigl M, Priscu JC, McConnell JR (2017) A 21000-year record of fluorescent organic matter markers in the WAIS Divide ice core. Climate of the Past, 13, 533-544. https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-13-533-2017
  38. D'Andrilli J, Smith HJ, Dieser M, Foreman CM (2017) Climate driven carbon and microbial signatures through the last ice age. Geochemical Perspectives Letters, 4, 29-34. https://doi.org/10.7185/geochemlet.1732
  39. Dunbar NW, Iverson NA, Van Eaton AR, Sigl M, Alloway BV, Kurbatov AV, Mastin LG, McConnell JR, Wilson CJN (2017) New Zealand supereruption provides time marker for the Last Glacial Maximum in Antarctica. Scientific Reports, 7:12238. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-11758-0
  40. Dütsch M, Blossey PN, Steig EJ, Nusbaumer JM (2019) Nonequilibrium fractionation during ice cloud formation in iCAM5: Evaluating the common parameterization of supersaturation as a linear function of temperature. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 11, 3777- 3793. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019MS001764
  41. Dyonisius MN, Petrenko VV, Smith AM, Hua Q, Yang B, Schmitt J, Beck J, Seth B, Bock M, Hmiel B, Vimont I, Menking JA, Shackleton SA, Baggenstos D, Bauska TK, Rhodes RH, Sperlich P, Beaudette R, Harth C, Kalk M, Brook EJ, Fischer H, Severinghaus JP, Weiss RF (2020) Old carbon reservoirs were not important in the deglacial methane budget. Science, 367, 907-910. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aax0504
  42. Fegyveresi J, Alley R, Voigt D, Fitzpatrick J, Wilen L (2019) Instruments and methods: A case study of ice core bubbles as strain indicators. Annals of Glaciology, 60(78), 8-19. https://doi.org/10.1017/aog.2018.23
  43. Fegyveresi JM, Alley RB, Fitzpatrick JJ, Cuffey KM, McConnell JR, Voigt DE, Spencer MK, Stevens NT (2016) Five millennia of surface temperatures and ice core bubble characteristics from the WAIS Divide deep core, West Antarctica. Paleoceanography, 31(3), 416-433. https://doi.org/10.1002/2015PA002851
  44. Fegyveresi JM, Alley RB, Muto A, Orsi AJ, Spencer MK (2018) Surface formation, preservation, and history of low-porosity crusts at the WAIS Divide site, West Antarctica. The Cryosphere, 12, 325-341. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-12-325-2018
  45. Fegyveresi JM, Alley RB, Spencer MK, Fitzpatrick JJ, Steig EJ, White JWC, McConnell JR, Taylor KC (2011) Late-Holocene climate evolution at the WAIS Divide site, West Antarctica: bubble number-density estimates. Journal of Glaciology, 57(204), 629-638. https://doi.org/10.3189/002214311797409677
  46. Fegyveresi JM, Alley RB, Voigt DE, Fitzpatrick JJ, Wilen, LA (2018) Instruments and methods: A case study of ice core bubbles as strain indicators. Annals of Glaciology, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1017/aog.2018.23
  47. Fitzpatrick JJ, Voigt DE, Fegyveresi JM, Stevens NT, Spencer MK, Cole-Dai J, Alley RB, Jardine GE, Cravens ED, Wilen LA, Fudge TJ, McConnell JR (2014) Physical properties of the WAIS Divide ice core. Journal of Glaciology, 60(224), 1181-1198. https://doi.org/10.3189/2014JoG14J100
  48. Frieler K, Clark PU, He F, Buizert C, Reese R, Ligtenberg SRM, van den Broeke MR, Winkelmann R, Levermann A (2015) Consistent evidence of increasing Antarctic accumulation with warming. Nature Climate Change, 5, 348-352. https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate2574
  49. Fudge TJ, Markle BR, Cuffey K, Buizert C, Taylor K, Steig EJ, Waddington E, Conway H, Koutnik M (2016) Variable relationship between accumulation and temperature in West Antarctica for the past 31,000 years. Geophysical Research Letters, 43(8), 3795-3803. https://doi.org/10.1002/2016GL068356
  50. Fudge TJ, Taylor KC, Waddington EW, Fitzpatrick JJ, Conway H (2016) Electrical stratigraphy of the WAIS Divide ice core: Identification of centimeter-scale irregular layering. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 121, 1218-1229. https://doi.org/10.1002/2016JF003845
  51. Fudge TJ, Waddington ED, Conway H, Lundin JMD, Taylor K (2014) Interpolation methods for Antarctic ice-core timescales: application to Byrd, Siple Dome and Law Dome ice cores. Climate of the Past, 10, 1195-1209. https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-10-1195-2014
  52. Gibson CJ, Johnson JA, Shturmakov AJ, Mortensen NB, Goetz JJ (2014) Replicate ice-coring system architecture: mechanical design. Annals of Glaciology, 55(68), 165-172. https://doi.org/10.3189/2014AoG68A019
  53. Gkinis V, Holme C, Kahle E, Stevens M, Steig E, Vinther B (2021) Numerical experiments on firn isotope diffusion with the Community Firn Model. Journal of Glaciology, 1-23. https://doi.org/10.1017/jog.2021.1
  54. Goddard PB, Tabor CR, Jones TR (2021) Utilizing Ice Core and Climate Model Data to Understand Seasonal West Antarctic Variability. Journal of Climate, 1-55. https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0822.1
  55. Goodwin ID, Browning S, Lorrey AM, Mayewski PA, Phipps SJ, Bertler NA, Edwards RP, Cohen TJ, van Ommen T, Curran C, Barr C, Stager JC (2014) A reconstruction of extratropical Indo-Pacific sea-level pressure patterns during the Medieval Climate Anomaly. Climate Dynamics, 43(5-6), 1197-1219. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-013-1899-1
  56. Gregory SA, Albert MR, Baker I (2014) Impact of physical properties and accumulation rate on pore close-off in layered firn. The Cryosphere, 8, 91-105. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-8-91-2014
  57. Guillet S, Corona C, Oppenheimer C, Lavigne F, Khodri M, Ludlow F, Sigl M, Toohey M, Atkins PS, Yang Z, Muranaka T, Horikawa N, Stoffel M (2023) Lunar eclipses illuminate timing and climate impact of medieval volcanism. Nature 616, 90–95. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-05751-z
  58. Hillenbrand C-D, Smith JA, Hodell DA, Greaves M, Poole CR, Kender S, Williams M, Andersen TJ, Jernas PE, Elderfield H, Klages JP, Roberts SJ, Gohl K, Larter RD, Kuhn G (2017) West Antarctic Ice Sheet retreat driven by Holocene warm water incursions. Nature, 547, 43-48. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature22995
  59. Horgan HJ, Anandakrishnan S, Alley RB, Burkett PG, Peters LE (2011) Englacial seismic reflectivity: imaging crystal-orientation fabric in West Antarctica. Journal of Glaciology, 57(204), 639-650. https://doi.org/10.3189/002214311797409686
  60. Hu J, Yan Y, Yeung LY, Dee SG (2022) Sublimation origin of negative deuterium excess observed in snow and ice samples from McMurdo Dry Valleys and Allan Hills Blue Ice Areas, East Antarctica. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 127, e2021JD035950. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JD035950
  61. Iverson NA, Kalteyer D, Dunbar NW, Kurbatov A, Yates M (2016) Advancements and best practices for analysis and correlation of tephra and cryptotephra in ice. Quaternary Geochronology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quageo.2016.09.008
  62. Iverson NA, Lieb-Lappen R, Dunbar NW, Obbard R, Kim E, Golden E (2017) The first physical evidence of subglacial volcanism under the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. Scientific Reports, 7:11457. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-11515-3
  63. Jiang S, Cox TS, Cole-Dai J, Peterson KM, Shi G (2016) Trends of perchlorate in Antarctic snow: Implications for atmospheric production and preservation in snow. Geophysical Research Letters, 43, 9913-9919. https://doi.org/10.1002/2016GL070203
  64. Johnson JA, Mason WP, Shturmakov AJ, Haman ST, Sendelbach PJ, Mortensen NB, Augustin L, Dahnert KR (2007) A new 122mm electromechanical drill for deep ice-sheet coring (DISC): 5. Experience during Greenland field testing. Annals of Glaciology, 47(1), 54-60. https://doi.org/10.3189/172756407786857730
  65. Johnson JA, Mortensen NB, Gibson CJ, Goetz JJ, Shturmakov AJ (2014) Replicate ice-coring system testing. Annals of Glaciology, 55(68), 331-338. https://doi.org/10.3189/2014AoG68A034
  66. Jones TR, Cuffey KM, Roberts WHG, Markle BR, Steig EJ, Max Stevens CM, Valdes PJ, Fudge TJ, Sigl M, Hughes AG, Morris V, Vaughn BH, Garland J, Vinther BM, Rozmiarek KS, Brashear CA, White JWC (2023) Seasonal temperatures in West Antarctica during the Holocene. Nature, 613, 292-297. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-05411-8
  67. Jones TR, Cuffey KM, White JWC, Steig EJ, Buizert C, Markle BR, McConnell JR, Sigl M (2017) Water Isotope Diffusion in the WAIS Divide Ice Core During the Holocene and Last Glacial. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 122, 290–309. https://doi.org/10.1002/2016JF003938
  68. Jones TR, Roberts WHG, Steig EJ, Cuffey KM, Markle BR, White JWC (2018) Southern Hemisphere climate variability forced by Northern Hemisphere ice-sheet topography. Nature, 554, 351–355. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature24669
  69. Jones TR, White JWC, Steig EJ, Vaughn BH, Morris V, Gkinis V, Markle BR, Schoenemann SW (2017) Improved methodologies for continuous-flow analysis of stable water isotopes in ice cores. Atmospheric Measurement Technologies, 10, 617-632. https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-10-617-2017
  70. Jongebloed UA, Schauer AJ, Cole-Dai J, Larrick CG, Porter WC, Tashmim L, Zhai S, Salimi S, Edouard SR, Geng L, Alexander B (2023) Industrial-era decline in Arctic methanesulfonic acid is offset by increased biogenic sulfate aerosol. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2307587120
  71. Kluskiewicz D, Waddington E, Anandakrishnan S, Voigt D, Matsuika K, McCarthy M (2017) Sonic methods for measuring crystal orientation fabric in ice, and results from the West Antarctic ice sheet (WAIS) Divide. Journal of Glaciology, 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1017/jog.2017.20
  72. Koffman BG, Dowd EG, Osterberg EC, Ferris DG, Hartman LH, Wheatley SD, Kurbatov AV, Wong GJ, Markle BR, Dunbar NW, Kreutz KJ, Yates Y (2017) Rapid transport of ash and sulfate from the 2011 Puyehue-Cordón Caulle (Chile) eruption to West Antarctica. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 122. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017JD026893
  73. Koffman BG, Handley MJ, Osterberg EC, Wells ML, Kreutz KJ (2014) Dependence of ice-core relative trace-element concentration on acidification. Journal of Glaciology, 60(219), 103-112. https://doi.org/10.3189/2014JoG13J137
  74. Koffman BG, Kreutz KJ, Breton DJ, Kane EJ, Winski DA, Birkel SD, Kurbatov AV, Handley MJ (2014) Centennial-scale variability of the Southern Hemisphere westerly wind belt in the eastern Pacific over the past two millennia. Climate of the Past, 10, 1125-1144. https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-10-1125-2014
  75. Koffman BG, Kreutz KJ, Kurbatov AV, Dunbar NW (2013) Impact of known local and tropical volcanic eruptions of the past millennium on the WAIS Divide microparticle record. Geophysical Research Letters, 40(17), 4712-4716. https://doi.org/10.1002/grl.50822
  76. Koutnik M, Fudge TJ, Conway H, Waddington E, Neumann T, Cuffey K, Buizert C, Taylor K (2016) Holocene accumulation and ice flow near the West Antarctic Ice Sheet Divide ice-core site. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 121, 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1002/2015JF003668
  77. Kunasek SA, Alexander B, Steig EJ, Sofen ED, Jackson TL, Thiemens MH, McConnell JR, Gleason DJ, Amos HM (2010) Sulfate sources and oxidation chemistry over the past 230 years from sulfur and oxygen isotopes of sulfate in a West Antarctic ice core. Journal of Geophysical Research, 115(D18313). https://doi.org/10.1029/2010JD013846
  78. Küttel M, Steig EJ, Ding Q, Monaghan AJ, Battisti DS (2012) Seasonal climate information preserved in West Antarctic ice core water isotopes: relationships to temperature, large-scale circulation, and sea ice. Climate Dynamics, 39(7-8), 1841-1857. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-012-1460-7
  79. Laird CM, Blake WA, Matsuoka K, Conway H, Allen CT, Leuschen CJ, Gogineni S (2009) Deep Ice Stratigraphy and Basal Conditions in Central West Antarctica Revealed by Coherent Radar. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters. https://doi.org/10.1109/LGRS.2009.2032304
  80. Lamarque JF, Dentener F, McConnell J, Ro CU, Shaw M, Vet R, Bergmann D, Cameron-Smith P, Dalsoren S, Doherty R, Faluvegi G, Ghan SJ, Josse B, Lee YH, MacKenzie IA, Plummer D, Shindell DT, Skeie RB, Stevenson DS, Strode S, Zeng G, Curran M, Dahl-Jensen D, Das S, Fritzsche D, Nolan M (2013) Multi-model mean nitrogen and sulfur deposition from the Atmospheric Chemistry and Climate Model Intercomparison Project (ACCMIP): Evaluation historical and projected changes. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 13, 7997-8018. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-13-7997-2013
  81. Lamarque JF, McConnell JR, Shindell DT, Orlando JJ, Tyndall GS (2011) Understanding the drivers for the 20th century change of hydrogen peroxide in Antarctic ice-cores. Geophysical Research Letters, 38(L04810). https://doi.org/10.1029/2010GL045992
  82. Lee MJ, Kyle PR, Iverson NA, Lee JI, Han Y (2019) Rittmann volcano, Antarctica as the source of a widespread 1252±2 CE tephra layer in Antarctica ice. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 521, 169-176. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2019.06.002
  83. Lee YH, Lamarque JF, Flanner MG, Jiao C, Shindell DT, Berntsen T, Bisiaux MM, Cao J, Collins WJ, Curran M, Edwards R, Faluvegi G, Ghan S, Horowitz LW, McConnell JR, Ming J, Myhre G, Nagashima T, Naik V, Tumbold ST, Skeie RB, Sudo K, Takemura T, Thevenon F, Xu B, Yoon J-H (2013) Evaluation of preindustrial to present-day black carbon and its albedo forcing from ACCMIP (Atmospheric Chemistry and Climate Model Intercomparison Project). Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 13, 2607-2634. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-13-2607-2013
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  25. Rejcek P (2011) Deep core complete - WAIS Divide project finishes five-year effort to retrieve 3,331 meters of ice, The Antarctic Sun
  26. Rejcek P (2010) It's just physics - Climate-change expert discusses greenhouse effect, utility of ice-core research, The Antarctic Sun
  27. WAIS Divide Science Coordination Office (2010) WAIS Divide Ice Core: A Guide for the Media and Public
  28. Rejcek P (2010) Core truths - WAIS Divide ice records past environmental changes with implications for the future, The Antarctic Sun
  29. Rejcek P (2010) On the line - Researchers spend summer in deep-freeze to slice and dice WAIS Divide ice core, The Antarctic Sun
  30. Hotz RL (2010) Mining for Cold, Hard Facts - Scientists Probe Antarctic Ice to Settle Climate Debates, Wall Street Journal
  31. WAIS Divide Science Coordination Office (2010) Quarterly Update: April 2010
  32. Rejcek P (2009) Core of drilling: UW-Madison group serves as one-stop shop for coring and cutting ice, The Antarctic Sun
  33. WAIS Divide Science Coordination Office (2009) Quarterly Update: August 2009
  34. WAIS Divide Science Coordination Office (2009) WAIS Divide Ice Core Project: A Guide for the Media and Public
  35. WAIS Divide Science Coordination Office (2009) Quarterly Update: February 2009
  36. Rejcek P (2008) Biological pulse - WAIS Divide project searches for life in the ice, The Antarctic Sun
  37. Rejcek P (2008) Connecting the pieces - Antarctic ice core to improve greenhouse gas climate record, The Antarctic Sun
  38. Rejcek P (2008) Deep into WAIS Divide: Project continues major effort to recover high-resolution climate record of last 100,000 years, The Antarctic Sun
  39. WAIS Divide Science Coordination Office (2008) WAIS Divide Ice Core: A Guide for the Media and Public
  40. WAIS Divide Science Coordination Office (2008) Quarterly Update: August 2008
  41. Las Vegas Sun (2008) From desert to Antarctica: Searching for climate clues
  42. WAIS Divide Science Coordination Office (2008) Quarterly Update: March 2008
  43. Badger Herald (2008) Ice drilling team returns
  44. National Science Foundation (2008) New Antarctic Ice Core to Provide Clearest Climate Record Yet [Press Release]
  45. WAIS Divide Science Coordination Office (2007) Quarterly Update: December 2007
  46. WAIS Divide Science Coordination Office (2007) WAIS Divide Ice Core Project: A Guide for the Media and Public
  47. WAIS Divide Science Coordination Office (2007) Quarterly Update: August 2007
  48. Economist.com (2007) Antarctic science: To Coldly Go
  49. WAIS Divide Science Coordination Office (2007) Quarterly Update: March 2007
  50. Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space (UNH) (2007) WAIS Deep, EOS Spheres, 6(1)
  51. WAIS Divide Science Coordination Office (2006) Quarterly Update: October 2006
  52. Severinghaus J (2006) WAIS Divide Ice Core Project: Progress and plans, PAGES News, 14(1), p. 25-26
  53. University of Kansas, School of Engineering (2005) KU Engineers to Depart for Antarctica for Ice Sheet Research
  54. Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space (UNH) (2005) Going Deep: The Western Divide Ice Core Project In Antarctica, EOS Spheres, 4(1)
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Dissertations / Theses

  1. Bauska TK (2013) Carbon cycle variability during the last millennium and last deglaciation. Oregon State University, Doctoral Dissertation
  2. Fegyveresi JM (2010) Reconstructing paleoclimates on the West Antarctic Ice Sheet using ice core bubble number-density. Penn State University, Master's Thesis
  3. Fegyveresi JM (2015) Physical Properties of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) Divide Deep Ice Core: Development, Evolution and Interpretation. Penn State University, Doctoral Dissertation
  4. Fudge TJ (2013) Investigating the interior of West Antarctica with light, radar, and electrical conductance. University of Washington, Doctoral Dissertation
  5. Gregory SA (2013) The impact of microstructure and physical properties on pore close-off at WAIS Divide and Megadunes. Dartmouth College, Master's Thesis
  6. Headly MA (2008) Krypton and xenon in air trapped in polar ice cores: paleo-atmospheric measurements for estimating past mean ocean temperature and summer snowmelt frequency. UC San Diego, Doctoral Dissertation
  7. Jones TR (2015) High-Resolution Water Isotope Records from West Antarctic Ice Cores: Interpretations of Climatic, Glaciological, and Diffusional Processes. University of Colorado, Doctoral Dissertation
  8. Koffman B (2013) Atmospheric Dust Deposition in West Antarctica Over the Past Two Millennia. University of Maine, Doctoral Dissertation
  9. Kunasek SA (2009) Advances in reconstructing past atmospheric oxidation chemistry using the oxygen isotope composition of nitrate and sulfate in ice cores. University of Washington, Doctoral Dissertation
  10. Mischler JA (2009) Carbon and hydrogen isotopic composition of methane over the last 1000 years. Penn State University, Master's Thesis
  11. Mitchell LE (2013) The late Holocene atmospheric methane budget reconstructed from ice cores. Oregon State University, Doctoral Dissertation
  12. Orsi AJ (2013) Temperature reconstruction at the West Antarctic Ice Sheet Divide, for the last millennium, from the combination of borehole temperature and inert gas isotope measurements. UC San Diego, Doctoral Dissertation
  13. Rosen JL (2014) Augmenting and interpreting ice core greenhouse gas records. Oregon State University, Doctoral Dissertation
  14. Schoenemann SW (2015) Fundamental controls on triple oxygen-isotope ratios in Antarctic precipitation and ice cores. University of Washington, Doctoral Dissertation
  15. Sofen ED (2013) Isotopic investigation of anthropogenic- and climate-driven changes in sulfate and nitrate aerosol production. University of Washington, Doctoral Dissertation
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Reports

  1. Severinghaus J (2012) Decision basis for the final depth of the WAIS Divide borehole: Final report
  2. Severinghaus J (2011) Process for Optimizing Pressure Compensation During Borehole Deepening
  3. Taylor KC and Severinghaus J (2011) Process for Deciding How Deep to Drill the WAIS Divide Borehole
  4. Priscu JC, Tulaczyk S, Skidmore M (2009) WAIS Divide Basal Science and Implementation Plan
  5. Ice Coring and Drilling Services (2008) Design Modifications for Recovering 4-Meter Ice Cores with the DISC Drill
  6. Clow GD (2008) USGS Polar Temperature Logging System, Description and Measurement Uncertainties: U.S. Geological Survey Techniques and Methods 2-E3, 1-24
  7. Severinghaus J, Brook E, Cole-Dai J, Pettit E, Sowers T (2008) Replicate Coring and Borehole Logging Science and Implementation Plan: WAIS Divide Ice Core and Beyond
  8. Ice Coring and Drilling Services (2003) Drilling Fluid Observations and Recommendations for U.S. Polar Program, WAISCORES Drilling Project, 1-32
  9. U.S. Ice Core Working Group (2003) United States Ice Core Science: Recommendations for the Future, 1-48
  10. Ice Coring and Drilling Services (2003) Comparison of Ice Coring Options for the Antarctic Inland Core Project, 1-96
  11. U.S. Ice Core Working Group (2000) WAISCORES: A Science and Implementation Plan for Climate, Cryobiology and Ice Dynamics Studies in West Antarctica, 1-61
  12. U.S. Ice Core Working Group (1998) Ice Core Contributions to Global Change Research: Past Successes and Future Directions, 1-35
  13. U.S. Ice Core Working Group (1991) WAISCORES 1991, 1-15
  14. U.S. Ice Core Working Group (1989) US Global Ice Core Research Program: West Antarctica and Beyond, 1-30
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