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Piva SB, Barker SJ, Iverson NA, Winton VHL, Bertler NAN, Sigl M, Wilson CJN, Dunbar NW, Kurbatov AV, Carter L, Charlier BLA, Newnham RM. Volcanic glass from the 1.8 ka Taupō eruption (New Zealand) detected in Antarctic ice at ~ 230 CE. Sci Rep 2023; 13:16720. [PMID: 37813875 PMCID: PMC10562440 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-42602-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/16/2023] [Accepted: 09/12/2023] [Indexed: 10/11/2023] Open
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Chemical anomalies in polar ice core records are frequently linked to volcanism; however, without the presence of (crypto)tephra particles, links to specific eruptions remain speculative. Correlating tephras yields estimates of eruption timing and potential source volcano, offers refinement of ice core chronologies, and provides insights into volcanic impacts. Here, we report on sparse rhyolitic glass shards detected in the Roosevelt Island Climate Evolution (RICE) ice core (West Antarctica), attributed to the 1.8 ka Taupō eruption (New Zealand)-one of the largest and most energetic Holocene eruptions globally. Six shards of a distinctive geochemical composition, identical within analytical uncertainties to proximal Taupō glass, are accompanied by a single shard indistinguishable from glass of the ~25.5 ka Ōruanui supereruption, also from Taupō volcano. This double fingerprint uniquely identifies the source volcano and helps link the shards to the climactic phase of the Taupō eruption. The englacial Taupō-derived glass shards coincide with a particle spike and conductivity anomaly at 278.84 m core depth, along with trachytic glass from a local Antarctic eruption of Mt. Melbourne. The assessed age of the sampled ice is 230 ± 19 CE (95% confidence), confirming that the published radiocarbon wiggle-match date of 232 ± 10 CE (2 SD) for the Taupō eruption is robust.
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- Stephen B Piva
- School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, P.O. Box 600, Wellington, 6140, New Zealand.
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- School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, P.O. Box 600, Wellington, 6140, New Zealand
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- New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, 801 Leroy Place, Socorro, NM, 87801, USA
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- Antarctic Research Centre, Victoria University of Wellington, P. O. Box 600, Wellington, 6140, New Zealand
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- Antarctic Research Centre, Victoria University of Wellington, P. O. Box 600, Wellington, 6140, New Zealand
- GNS Science, National Isotope Centre, PO Box 30-368, Lower Hutt, 5040, New Zealand
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- Climate and Environmental Physics, Physics Institute and Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, Hochschulstrasse 4, 3012, Bern, Switzerland
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- School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, P.O. Box 600, Wellington, 6140, New Zealand
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- New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, 801 Leroy Place, Socorro, NM, 87801, USA
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- Climate Change Institute, School of Earth and Climate Sciences, University of Maine, 168 College Avenue, Orono, ME, 04469, USA
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- Antarctic Research Centre, Victoria University of Wellington, P. O. Box 600, Wellington, 6140, New Zealand
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- School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, P.O. Box 600, Wellington, 6140, New Zealand
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- School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, P.O. Box 600, Wellington, 6140, New Zealand
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Reinig F, Wacker L, Jöris O, Oppenheimer C, Guidobaldi G, Nievergelt D, Adolphi F, Cherubini P, Engels S, Esper J, Keppler F, Land A, Lane C, Pfanz H, Remmele S, Sigl M, Sookdeo A, Büntgen U. Reply to: Possible magmatic CO 2 influence on the Laacher See eruption date. Nature 2023; 619:E3-E8. [PMID: 37407681 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-023-05966-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/07/2023]
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- Frederick Reinig
- Department of Geography, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany.
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- Laboratory of Ion Beam Physics, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Leibniz-Zentrum für Archäologie-MONREPOS Archaeological Research Centre and Museum for Human Behavioural Evolution, Neuwied, Germany
- Institute of Ancient Studies, Department of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeology, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany
- Key Laboratory of Western China's Environmental Systems (Ministry of Education), College of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
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- Forest Dynamics/Dendrosciences, Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland
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- Forest Dynamics/Dendrosciences, Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland
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- Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany
- Department of Geosciences, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
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- Forest Dynamics/Dendrosciences, Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland
- Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- Department of Geography, Birkbeck University of London, London, UK
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- Department of Geography, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany
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- Institute of Earth Sciences, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany
- Heidelberg Center for the Environment, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Institute of Biology (190a), University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany
- Silviculture & Forest Growth and Yield, University of Applied Forest Sciences, Rottenburg am Neckar, Germany
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- Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Institute of Applied Botanics and Volcanic Biology, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany
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- Institute of Biology (190a), University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany
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- Climate and Environmental Physics, Physics Institute, Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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- Laboratory of Ion Beam Physics, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- Forest Dynamics/Dendrosciences, Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland
- Global Change Research Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences (CzechGlobe), Brno, Czech Republic
- Department of Geography, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
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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. Lunar eclipses illuminate timing and climate impact of medieval volcanism. Nature 2023; 616:90-95. [PMID: 37020006 PMCID: PMC10076221 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-023-05751-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/07/2021] [Accepted: 01/20/2023] [Indexed: 04/07/2023]
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Explosive volcanism is a key contributor to climate variability on interannual to centennial timescales1. Understanding the far-field societal impacts of eruption-forced climatic changes requires firm event chronologies and reliable estimates of both the burden and altitude (that is, tropospheric versus stratospheric) of volcanic sulfate aerosol2,3. However, despite progress in ice-core dating, uncertainties remain in these key factors4. This particularly hinders investigation of the role of large, temporally clustered eruptions during the High Medieval Period (HMP, 1100-1300 CE), which have been implicated in the transition from the warm Medieval Climate Anomaly to the Little Ice Age5. Here we shed new light on explosive volcanism during the HMP, drawing on analysis of contemporary reports of total lunar eclipses, from which we derive a time series of stratospheric turbidity. By combining this new record with aerosol model simulations and tree-ring-based climate proxies, we refine the estimated dates of five notable eruptions and associate each with stratospheric aerosol veils. Five further eruptions, including one responsible for high sulfur deposition over Greenland circa 1182 CE, affected only the troposphere and had muted climatic consequences. Our findings offer support for further investigation of the decadal-scale to centennial-scale climate response to volcanic eruptions.
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- Sébastien Guillet
- Climate Change Impacts and Risks in the Anthropocene (C-CIA), Institute for Environmental Sciences, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.
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- Climate Change Impacts and Risks in the Anthropocene (C-CIA), Institute for Environmental Sciences, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
- GEOLAB, Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Laboratoire de Géographie Physique, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Thiais, France
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- Laboratoire d'Océanographie et du Climat: Expérimentations et Approches Numériques, IPSL, Sorbonne Université/IRD/CNRS/MNHN, Paris, France
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- Trinity Centre for Environmental Humanities, Department of History, School of Histories & Humanities, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
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- Climate and Environmental Physics, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
- Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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- Department of Physics and Engineering Physics, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
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- Department of Asian Languages & Literature, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Trinity Centre for Environmental Humanities, Department of History, School of Histories & Humanities, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
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- Climate Change Impacts and Risks in the Anthropocene (C-CIA), Institute for Environmental Sciences, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Department of Asian Languages & Literature, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Climate Change Impacts and Risks in the Anthropocene (C-CIA), Institute for Environmental Sciences, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
- Department of Earth Sciences, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
- Department F.-A. Forel for Environmental and Aquatic Sciences, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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Eckhardt S, Pisso I, Evangeliou N, Zwaaftink CG, Plach A, McConnell JR, Sigl M, Ruppel M, Zdanowicz C, Lim S, Chellman N, Opel T, Meyer H, Steffensen JP, Schwikowski M, Stohl A. Revised historical Northern Hemisphere black carbon emissions based on inverse modeling of ice core records. Nat Commun 2023; 14:271. [PMID: 36650124 PMCID: PMC9845213 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-35660-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/06/2022] [Accepted: 12/15/2022] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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Black carbon emitted by incomplete combustion of fossil fuels and biomass has a net warming effect in the atmosphere and reduces the albedo when deposited on ice and snow; accurate knowledge of past emissions is essential to quantify and model associated global climate forcing. Although bottom-up inventories provide historical Black Carbon emission estimates that are widely used in Earth System Models, they are poorly constrained by observations prior to the late 20th century. Here we use an objective inversion technique based on detailed atmospheric transport and deposition modeling to reconstruct 1850 to 2000 emissions from thirteen Northern Hemisphere ice-core records. We find substantial discrepancies between reconstructed Black Carbon emissions and existing bottom-up inventories which do not fully capture the complex spatial-temporal emission patterns. Our findings imply changes to existing historical Black Carbon radiative forcing estimates are necessary, with potential implications for observation-constrained climate sensitivity.
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- Sabine Eckhardt
- NILU - Norwegian Institute for Air Research, Kjeller, Norway.
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- NILU - Norwegian Institute for Air Research, Kjeller, Norway
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- Department of Meteorology and Geophysics, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Division of Hydrologic Sciences, Desert Research Institute, Reno, NV, 89512, USA
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- Environmental Physics, Physics Institute, University of Bern, 3012, Bern, Switzerland.,Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, 3012, Bern, Switzerland
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- Atmospheric Composition Unit, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland.,Ecosystems and Environment Research Programme, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Environmental Engineering, Chungnam National University, Daejeon, 34134, South Korea
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- Division of Hydrologic Sciences, Desert Research Institute, Reno, NV, 89512, USA
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- Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Potsdam, Germany
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- Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Potsdam, Germany
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- Department of Meteorology and Geophysics, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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Jones TR, Cuffey KM, Roberts WHG, Markle BR, Steig EJ, Stevens CM, Valdes PJ, Fudge TJ, Sigl M, Hughes AG, Morris V, Vaughn BH, Garland J, Vinther BM, Rozmiarek KS, Brashear CA, White JWC. Seasonal temperatures in West Antarctica during the Holocene. Nature 2023; 613:292-297. [PMID: 36631651 PMCID: PMC9834049 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-022-05411-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/26/2021] [Accepted: 10/04/2022] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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The recovery of long-term climate proxy records with seasonal resolution is rare because of natural smoothing processes, discontinuities and limitations in measurement resolution. Yet insolation forcing, a primary driver of multimillennial-scale climate change, acts through seasonal variations with direct impacts on seasonal climate1. Whether the sensitivity of seasonal climate to insolation matches theoretical predictions has not been assessed over long timescales. Here, we analyse a continuous record of water-isotope ratios from the West Antarctic Ice Sheet Divide ice core to reveal summer and winter temperature changes through the last 11,000 years. Summer temperatures in West Antarctica increased through the early-to-mid-Holocene, reached a peak 4,100 years ago and then decreased to the present. Climate model simulations show that these variations primarily reflect changes in maximum summer insolation, confirming the general connection between seasonal insolation and warming and demonstrating the importance of insolation intensity rather than seasonally integrated insolation or season duration2,3. Winter temperatures varied less overall, consistent with predictions from insolation forcing, but also fluctuated in the early Holocene, probably owing to changes in meridional heat transport. The magnitudes of summer and winter temperature changes constrain the lowering of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet surface since the early Holocene to less than 162 m and probably less than 58 m, consistent with geological constraints elsewhere in West Antarctica4-7.
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- Tyler R Jones
- Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA.
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- Department of Geography, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Geography and Environmental Sciences, Northumbria University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK
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- Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA.,Department of Geological Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA
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- Department of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Cryospheric Science Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA.,Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
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- School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
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- Department of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Climate and Environmental Physics, Physics Institute & Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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- Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA.,Department of Geological Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA
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- Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA
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- Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA
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- Center on Narrative, Disinformation and Strategic Influence, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA
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- Centre for Ice and Climate, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA.,Department of Geological Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA
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- Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA.,Department of Geological Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA
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- College of Arts and Sciences, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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Pearson C, Sigl M, Burke A, Davies S, Kurbatov A, Severi M, Cole-Dai J, Innes H, Albert PG, Helmick M. Geochemical ice-core constraints on the timing and climatic impact of Aniakchak II (1628 BCE) and Thera (Minoan) volcanic eruptions. PNAS Nexus 2022; 1:pgac048. [PMID: 36713327 PMCID: PMC9802406 DOI: 10.1093/pnasnexus/pgac048] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/16/2021] [Accepted: 04/23/2022] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Decades of research have focused on establishing the exact year and climatic impact of the Minoan eruption of Thera, Greece (c.1680 to 1500 BCE). Ice cores offer key evidence to resolve this controversy, but attempts have been hampered by a lack of multivolcanic event synchronization between records. In this study, Antarctic and Greenland ice-core records are synchronized using a double bipolar sulfate marker, and calendar dates are assigned to each eruption revealed within the 'Thera period'. From this global-scale sequence of volcanic sulfate loading, we derive indications toward each eruption's latitude and potential to disrupt the climate system. Ultrafine sampling for sulfur isotopes and tephra conclusively demonstrate a colossal eruption of Alaska's Aniakchak II as the source of stratospheric sulfate in the now precisely dated 1628 BCE ice layer. These findings end decades of speculation that Thera was responsible for the 1628 BCE event, and place Aniakchak II (52 ± 17 Tg S) and an unknown volcano at 1654 BCE (50 ± 13 Tg S) as two of the largest Northern Hemisphere sulfur injections in the last 4,000 years. This opens possibilities to explore widespread climatic impacts for contemporary societies and, in pinpointing Aniakchak II, confirms that stratospheric sulfate can be globally distributed from eruptions outside the tropics. Dating options for Thera are reduced to a series of precisely dated, constrained stratospheric sulfur injection events at 1611 BCE, 1561/1558/1555BCE, and c.1538 BCE, which are all below 14 ± 5 Tg S, indicating a climatic forcing potential for Thera well below that of Tambora (1815 CE).
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- Charlotte Pearson
- Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, University of Arizona, 1215 E. Lowell Street, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
- Geosciences, University of Arizona, 1040 E. 4th Street, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
- Anthropology, University of Arizona, 1009 E. South Campus, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
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- Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, Hochschulstrasse 4, 3012, Bern, Switzerland
- Climate and Environmental Physics, University of Bern, Sidlerstrasse 5, CH-3012, Bern, Switzerland
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- School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of St Andrews, Queen’s Terrace, KY16 9TS, Scotland, UK
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- Department of Geography, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Swansea University, Singleton Park, SA2 8PP, Cymru, UK
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- Climate Change Institute, University of Maine, Orono, ME 04469-5790, USA
- School of Earth and Climate Sciences, University of Maine, 81 Main St., Orono, ME 04469-5790, USA
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- Dipartimento di Chimica Ugo Schiff, University of Florence, Via della Lastruccia, 3, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Florence, Italy
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, South Dakota State University, 1451 Stadium Rd, Brookings, SD 57007, USA
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- School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of St Andrews, Queen’s Terrace, KY16 9TS, Scotland, UK
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- Department of Geography, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Swansea University, Singleton Park, SA2 8PP, Cymru, UK
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- Climate Change Institute, University of Maine, Orono, ME 04469-5790, USA
- School of Earth and Climate Sciences, University of Maine, 81 Main St., Orono, ME 04469-5790, USA
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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. Antarctic surface temperature and elevation during the Last Glacial Maximum. Science 2021; 372:1097-1101. [PMID: 34083489 DOI: 10.1126/science.abd2897] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/18/2020] [Accepted: 04/29/2021] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
Abstract
Water-stable isotopes in polar ice cores are a widely used temperature proxy in paleoclimate reconstruction, yet calibration remains challenging in East Antarctica. Here, we reconstruct the magnitude and spatial pattern of Last Glacial Maximum surface cooling in Antarctica using borehole thermometry and firn properties in seven ice cores. West Antarctic sites cooled ~10°C relative to the preindustrial period. East Antarctic sites show a range from ~4° to ~7°C cooling, which is consistent with the results of global climate models when the effects of topographic changes indicated with ice core air-content data are included, but less than those indicated with the use of water-stable isotopes calibrated against modern spatial gradients. An altered Antarctic temperature inversion during the glacial reconciles our estimates with water-isotope observations.
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- Christo Buizert
- College of Earth Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA.
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- Department of Earth and Space Science, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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- Geographical and Environmental Sciences, Northumbria University, Newcastle, UK
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- Department of Earth and Space Science, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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- Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa 277-8568, Japan
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, IRD, IGE, Grenoble, France
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, IRD, IGE, Grenoble, France
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- College of Earth Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA
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- National Institute of Polar Research, Tachikawa, Tokyo, Japan.,Department of Polar Science, The Graduate University of Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI), Tokyo, Japan.,Japan Agency for Marine Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Yokosuka, Japan
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- National Institute of Polar Research, Tachikawa, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Earth and Space Science, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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- Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
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- Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa 277-8568, Japan
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- Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa 277-8568, Japan
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- British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, UK
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- Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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- Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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- College of Earth Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA
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- College of Earth Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA
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- College of Earth Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA
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- Center for Atmospheric and Oceanic Studies, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8578, Japan
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- Center for Atmospheric and Oceanic Studies, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8578, Japan
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- School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, South Korea
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- The Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
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- School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, South Korea
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- Climate and Environmental Physics, Physics Institute & Oeschger Center for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, 3012 Bern, Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry "Ugo Schiff," University of Florence, Florence, Italy.,Institute of Polar Sciences, ISP-CNR, Venice-Mestre, Italy
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- New Mexico Bureau of Geology & Mineral Resources, Earth and Environmental Science Department, New Mexico Tech, Socorro, NM 87801, USA
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- Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- School of Earth and Sustainability, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ 86011, USA
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- Department of Geography, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
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- Department of Geography, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
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- National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO 80307, USA
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- Climate and Environmental Research Laboratory, Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, St. Petersburg 199397, Russia
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- Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement-IPSL, Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Climate and Environmental Physics, Physics Institute & Oeschger Center for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, 3012 Bern, Switzerland
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Liu P, Kaplan JO, Mickley LJ, Li Y, Chellman NJ, Arienzo MM, Kodros JK, Pierce JR, Sigl M, Freitag J, Mulvaney R, Curran MAJ, McConnell JR. Improved estimates of preindustrial biomass burning reduce the magnitude of aerosol climate forcing in the Southern Hemisphere. Sci Adv 2021; 7:7/22/eabc1379. [PMID: 34049885 PMCID: PMC8163089 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abc1379] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/12/2020] [Accepted: 04/12/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Fire plays a pivotal role in shaping terrestrial ecosystems and the chemical composition of the atmosphere and thus influences Earth's climate. The trend and magnitude of fire activity over the past few centuries are controversial, which hinders understanding of preindustrial to present-day aerosol radiative forcing. Here, we present evidence from records of 14 Antarctic ice cores and 1 central Andean ice core, suggesting that historical fire activity in the Southern Hemisphere (SH) exceeded present-day levels. To understand this observation, we use a global fire model to show that overall SH fire emissions could have declined by 30% over the 20th century, possibly because of the rapid expansion of land use for agriculture and animal production in middle to high latitudes. Radiative forcing calculations suggest that the decreasing trend in SH fire emissions over the past century largely compensates for the cooling effect of increasing aerosols from fossil fuel and biofuel sources.
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- Pengfei Liu
- School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
- School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA
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- Department of Earth Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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- School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
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- School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
- Department of Environmental Science, Baylor University, Waco, TX 76798, USA
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- Division of Hydrologic Sciences, Desert Research Institute, Reno, NV 89512, USA
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- Division of Hydrologic Sciences, Desert Research Institute, Reno, NV 89512, USA
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80521, USA
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- Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA
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- Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, 3012 Bern, Switzerland
- Climate and Environmental Physics, University of Bern, 3012 Bern, Switzerland
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- Alfred-Wegener-Institut Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung, Bremerhaven, Germany
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- Australian Antarctic Division and Antarctic Climate and Ecosystem Cooperative Research Centre, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
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- Division of Hydrologic Sciences, Desert Research Institute, Reno, NV 89512, USA
- Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 9AL, UK
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Rümenapf G, Morbach S, Rother U, Uhl C, Görtz H, Böckler D, Behrendt CA, Hochlenert D, Engels G, Hohneck A, Sigl M. [Diabetic foot syndrome-Part 2 : Revascularization, treatment alternatives, care structures, recurrency prophylaxis]. Chirurg 2021; 92:173-186. [PMID: 33237367 PMCID: PMC7875854 DOI: 10.1007/s00104-020-01313-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
Abstract
Diabetic foot syndrome (DFS) is the most frequent reason for major amputations in Germany. The majority of foot lesions are triggered by repetitive pressure in diabetic polyneuropathy. Peripheral arterial occlusive disease (PAOD) impairs wound healing and is the main risk factor for amputations. The treatment of wounds and infections as well as timely revascularization are decisive. The use of endovascular and vascular surgical methods depends on the distribution pattern and length of the occlusion processes. Both procedures are complementary. Bypass surgery is of great importance for neuroischemic DFS. Multidisciplinary centers that provide revascularization in DFS can achieve an improvement of arterial blood flow in 90% of the cases and reduce the amputation rate by up to 80%. Due to the high recurrence rate of diabetic foot lesions, measures for secondary prophylaxis are of exceptional importance (podological and orthopedic technical care, foot surgery).
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- G Rümenapf
- Oberrheinisches Gefäßzentrum Speyer, Diakonissen-Stiftungs-Krankenhaus Speyer, Paul-Egell-Straße 33, 67346, Speyer, Deutschland.
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- Abteilung Diabetologie und Angiologie, Fachbereich , Innere Medizin, Marienkrankenhaus gGmbH Soest, Soest, Deutschland
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- Gefäßchirurgische Abteilung, Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Erlangen, Deutschland
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- Klinik für Gefäßchirurgie und Endovaskuläre Chirurgie, Universitätsklinikum Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Deutschland
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- Klinik für Gefäßchirurgie, Bonifatius Hospital Lingen, Lingen, Deutschland
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- Klinik für Gefäßchirurgie und Endovaskuläre Chirurgie, Universitätsklinikum Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Deutschland
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- Klinik und Poliklinik für Gefäßmedizin, Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Deutschland
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- Centrum für Diabetologie, Endoskopie und Wundheilung Köln, Köln, Deutschland
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- Chirurgische Praxis am Bayenthalgürtel, Köln, Deutschland
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- Abteilung für Angiologie, 1. Medizinische Klinik, Universitätsklinik Mannheim, Mannheim, Deutschland
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- Abteilung für Angiologie, 1. Medizinische Klinik, Universitätsklinik Mannheim, Mannheim, Deutschland
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Rümenapf G, Morbach S, Rother U, Uhl C, Görtz H, Böckler D, Behrendt CA, Hochlenert D, Engels G, Sigl M. [Diabetic foot syndrome-Part 1 : Definition, pathophysiology, diagnostics and classification]. Chirurg 2021; 92:81-94. [PMID: 33170315 PMCID: PMC7819949 DOI: 10.1007/s00104-020-01301-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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There are ca. 8 million persons with diabetes mellitus living in Germany. A late sequelae of diabetes is the diabetic foot syndrome (DFS), the prevalence of which is greatly increasing. It comprises all alterations of the foot as a result of diabetic polyneuropathy as well as microvascular and macrovascular (peripheral arterial occlusive disease, PAOD) alterations. Many of the ca. 250,000 newly diagnosed diabetic foot ulcers per year become chronic wounds. Despite intensive efforts for prevention, early diagnosis and adequate wound care, ca. 13,000 persons with diabetes undergo major limb amputation in Germany every year. With consistent treatment in interdisciplinary centers and by exhausting all possible methods of wound treatment, pressure relief as well as arterial revascularization, the major amputation rate in patients with diabetic foot problems can be reduced by 80%. With a suitable strategy of prevention, the recurrence rate of foot ulcers would be reduced.
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- G Rümenapf
- Oberrheinisches Gefäßzentrum Speyer, Klinik für Gefäßchirurgie, Diakonissen-Stiftungs-Krankenhaus, Paul-Egell-Straße 33, 67346, Speyer, Deutschland.
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- Abteilung Diabetologie und Angiologie, Fachbereich Innere Medizin, Marienkrankenhaus gGmbH Soest, Soest, Deutschland
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- Gefäßchirurgische Abteilung, Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Erlangen, Deutschland
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- Klinik für Gefäßchirurgie und Endovaskuläre Chirurgie, Universitätsklinikum Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Deutschland
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- Klinik für Gefäßchirurgie, Bonifatius Hospital Lingen, Lingen, Deutschland
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- Klinik für Gefäßchirurgie und Endovaskuläre Chirurgie, Universitätsklinikum Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Deutschland
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- Klinik und Poliklinik für Gefäßmedizin, Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Deutschland
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- Centrum für Diabetologie, Endoskopie und Wundheilung Köln, Köln, Deutschland
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- Chirurgische Praxis am Bayenthalgürtel, Köln, Deutschland
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- 1. Medizinische Klinik, Abteilung für Angiologie, Universitätsklinik Mannheim, Mannheim, Deutschland
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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. Abrupt ice-age shifts in southern westerly winds and Antarctic climate forced from the north. Nature 2018; 563:681-685. [DOI: 10.1038/s41586-018-0727-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 85] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/11/2018] [Accepted: 10/12/2018] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Büntgen U, Wacker L, Galván JD, Arnold S, Arseneault D, Baillie M, Beer J, Bernabei M, Bleicher N, Boswijk G, Bräuning A, Carrer M, Ljungqvist FC, Cherubini P, Christl M, Christie DA, Clark PW, Cook ER, D'Arrigo R, Davi N, Eggertsson Ó, Esper J, Fowler AM, Gedalof Z, Gennaretti F, Grießinger J, Grissino-Mayer H, Grudd H, Gunnarson BE, Hantemirov R, Herzig F, Hessl A, Heussner KU, Jull AJT, Kukarskih V, Kirdyanov A, Kolář T, Krusic PJ, Kyncl T, Lara A, LeQuesne C, Linderholm HW, Loader NJ, Luckman B, Miyake F, Myglan VS, Nicolussi K, Oppenheimer C, Palmer J, Panyushkina I, Pederson N, Rybníček M, Schweingruber FH, Seim A, Sigl M, Churakova Sidorova O, Speer JH, Synal HA, Tegel W, Treydte K, Villalba R, Wiles G, Wilson R, Winship LJ, Wunder J, Yang B, Young GHF. Tree rings reveal globally coherent signature of cosmogenic radiocarbon events in 774 and 993 CE. Nat Commun 2018; 9:3605. [PMID: 30190505 PMCID: PMC6127282 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-06036-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/30/2018] [Accepted: 08/07/2018] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
Abstract
Though tree-ring chronologies are annually resolved, their dating has never been independently validated at the global scale. Moreover, it is unknown if atmospheric radiocarbon enrichment events of cosmogenic origin leave spatiotemporally consistent fingerprints. Here we measure the 14C content in 484 individual tree rings formed in the periods 770–780 and 990–1000 CE. Distinct 14C excursions starting in the boreal summer of 774 and the boreal spring of 993 ensure the precise dating of 44 tree-ring records from five continents. We also identify a meridional decline of 11-year mean atmospheric radiocarbon concentrations across both hemispheres. Corroborated by historical eye-witness accounts of red auroras, our results suggest a global exposure to strong solar proton radiation. To improve understanding of the return frequency and intensity of past cosmic events, which is particularly important for assessing the potential threat of space weather on our society, further annually resolved 14C measurements are needed. Despite their extensive use, the absolute dating of tree-ring chronologies has not hitherto been independently validated at the global scale. Here, the identification of distinct 14C excursions in 484 individual tree rings, enable the authors to confirm the dating of 44 dendrochronologies from five continents.
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- Ulf Büntgen
- Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 3EN, UK. .,Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, CH-8903, Birmensdorf, Switzerland. .,Global Change Research Institute CAS, 603 00, Brno, Czech Republic. .,Department of Geography, Masaryk University, 611 37, Brno, Czech Republic.
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- Laboratory for Ion Beam Physics, ETH Zürich, CH-8093, Zurich, Switzerland.
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- Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, CH-8903, Birmensdorf, Switzerland
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- Laboratory for Ion Beam Physics, ETH Zürich, CH-8093, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Département de biologie, chimie et géographie, University of Québec in Rimouski, QC, G5L 3A1, Canada
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- School of Natural and Built Environment, Queen's University, Belfast, BT7 1NN, Northern Ireland, UK
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- Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology Eawag, CH-8600, Dübendorf, Switzerland
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- CNR-IVALSA, Trees and Timber Institute, 38010, San Michele all'Adige, TN, Italy
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- Competence Center for Underwater Archaeology and Dendrochronology, Office for Urbanism, City of Zurich, 8008, Zürich, Switzerland
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- School of Environment, University of Auckland, 1010, Auckland, New Zealand
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- Institute of Geography, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), 91058, Erlangen, Germany
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- Department Territorio e Sistemi Agro-Forestali, University of Padova, 35020, Legnaro (PD), Italy
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- Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 3EN, UK.,Department of History, Stockholm University, SE-10691, Stockholm, Sweden.,Bolin Centre for Climate Research, Stockholm University, SE-10691, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, CH-8903, Birmensdorf, Switzerland
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- Laboratory for Ion Beam Physics, ETH Zürich, CH-8093, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Laboratorio de Dendrocronología y Cambio Global, Universidad Austral de Chile, Casilla 567, Valdivia, Chile.,Center for Climate and Resilience Research, Blanco Encalada 2002, 8370449, Santiago, Chile
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- Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, 05405, USA
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- Tree-Ring Laboratory, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, NY, 10964-8000, USA
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- Tree-Ring Laboratory, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, NY, 10964-8000, USA
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- Tree-Ring Laboratory, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, NY, 10964-8000, USA.,Department of Environmental Science, William Paterson University, Wayne, NJ, 07470, USA
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- Department of Geography, Johannes Gutenberg University, 55099, Mainz, Germany
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- School of Environment, University of Auckland, 1010, Auckland, New Zealand
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- Department of Geography, University of Guelph, ON, N1G 2W1, Canada
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- AgroParisTech, INRA, Université de Lorraine, 54000, Nancy, France
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- Institute of Geography, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), 91058, Erlangen, Germany
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- Department of Geography, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, 37996-0925, USA
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- Swedish Polar Research Secretariat, SE-104 05, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Bolin Centre for Climate Research, Stockholm University, SE-10691, Stockholm, Sweden.,Department of Physical Geography, Stockholm University, SE-106 91, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology, Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Ekaterinburg, 620144, Russia
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- Bavarian State Office for Monument Protection, 80539, München, Germany
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- Department of Geology and Geography, West Virginia University, WV, 26505-6300, USA
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- Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 85721, USA.,AMS Laboratory, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 85721, USA.,Isotope Climatology and Environmental Research Centre, Institute of Nuclear Research, H-4001, Debrecen, Hungary
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- Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology, Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Ekaterinburg, 620144, Russia
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- Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 3EN, UK.,Sukachev Institute of Forest SB RAS, 660036, Krasnoyarsk, Russia.,Department of Humanities, Siberian Federal University, 660041, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
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- Global Change Research Institute CAS, 603 00, Brno, Czech Republic.,Department of Wood Science, Mendel University in Brno, 61300, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 3EN, UK.,Department of Physical Geography, Stockholm University, SE-106 91, Stockholm, Sweden.,Navarino Environmental Observatory, GR-24001, Messinia, Greece
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- Global Change Research Institute CAS, 603 00, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Laboratorio de Dendrocronología y Cambio Global, Universidad Austral de Chile, Casilla 567, Valdivia, Chile.,Center for Climate and Resilience Research, Blanco Encalada 2002, 8370449, Santiago, Chile
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- Laboratorio de Dendrocronología y Cambio Global, Universidad Austral de Chile, Casilla 567, Valdivia, Chile
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- Department of Earth Sciences, University of Gothenburg, 405 30, Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Department of Geography, Swansea University, Swansea, SA2 8PP, Wales, UK
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- Department of Geography, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, N6A 3K7, Canada
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- Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research, Nagoya University, Nagoya, 464-8601, Japan
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- Department of Humanities, Siberian Federal University, 660041, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
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- Institute of Geography, University of Innsbruck, 6020, Innsbruck, Austria
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- Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 3EN, UK
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- Palaeontology, Geobiology and Earth Archives Research Centre, and ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, 2052, Australia
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- Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 85721, USA
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- Harvard Forest, Harvard University, Petersham, MA, 01366, USA
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- Global Change Research Institute CAS, 603 00, Brno, Czech Republic.,Department of Wood Science, Mendel University in Brno, 61300, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Chair of Forest Growth and Dendroecology, Institute of Forest Sciences, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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- Laboratory of Environmental Chemistry, Paul Scherrer Institute, 5232, Villigen, Switzerland
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- Department of Humanities, Siberian Federal University, 660041, Krasnoyarsk, Russia.,Institute for Environmental Sciences, University of Geneva, 1205, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Department of Earth and Environmental Systems, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN, 47809, USA
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- Laboratory for Ion Beam Physics, ETH Zürich, CH-8093, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Chair of Forest Growth and Dendroecology, Institute of Forest Sciences, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.,Archaeological Service Kanton Thurgau (AATG), 8510, Frauenfeld, Switzerland
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- Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, CH-8903, Birmensdorf, Switzerland
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- Instituto Argentino de Nivología, Glaciología y Ciencias Ambientales, IANIGLA - CONICET, Mendoza, CP 330, 5500, Argentina
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- Department of of Earth Sciences, The College of Wooster, OH, 44691, USA
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- Tree-Ring Laboratory, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, NY, 10964-8000, USA.,School of Geography and Geosciences, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, KY16 9AJ, Scotland, UK
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- Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, CH-8903, Birmensdorf, Switzerland.,School of Environment, University of Auckland, 1010, Auckland, New Zealand
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- Key Laboratory of Desert and Desertification, Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 730000, Lanzhou, China
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- Department of Geography, Swansea University, Swansea, SA2 8PP, Wales, UK
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Oppenheimer C, Orchard A, Stoffel M, Newfield TP, Guillet S, Corona C, Sigl M, Di Cosmo N, Büntgen U. The Eldgjá eruption: timing, long-range impacts and influence on the Christianisation of Iceland. Clim Change 2018; 147:369-381. [PMID: 31258223 PMCID: PMC6560931 DOI: 10.1007/s10584-018-2171-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/11/2017] [Accepted: 03/01/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
Abstract
The Eldgjá lava flood is considered Iceland's largest volcanic eruption of the Common Era. While it is well established that it occurred after the Settlement of Iceland (circa 874 CE), the date of this great event has remained uncertain. This has hampered investigation of the eruption's impacts, if any, on climate and society. Here, we use high-temporal resolution glaciochemical records from Greenland to show that the eruption began in spring 939 CE and continued, at least episodically, until at least autumn 940 CE. Contemporary chronicles identify the spread of a remarkable haze in 939 CE, and tree ring-based reconstructions reveal pronounced northern hemisphere summer cooling in 940 CE, consistent with the eruption's high yield of sulphur to the atmosphere. Consecutive severe winters and privations may also be associated with climatic effects of the volcanic aerosol veil. Iceland's formal conversion to Christianity dates to 999/1000 CE, within two generations or so of the Eldgjá eruption. The end of the pagan pantheon is foretold in Iceland's renowned medieval poem, Vǫluspá ('the prophecy of the seeress'). Several lines of the poem describe dramatic eruptive activity and attendant meteorological effects in an allusion to the fiery terminus of the pagan gods. We suggest that they draw on first-hand experiences of the Eldgjá eruption and that this retrospection of harrowing volcanic events in the poem was intentional, with the purpose of stimulating Iceland's Christianisation over the latter half of the tenth century.
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- Faculty of English, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Institute for Environmental Sciences, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
- Dendrolab.ch, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Departments of History and Biology, Georgetown University, Washington, DC USA
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- Institute for Environmental Sciences, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Geolab UMR6042 CNRS, Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Laboratory of Environmental Chemistry, Paul Scherrer Institute, 5232 Villigen, Switzerland
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- Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ USA
- Princeton University, Princeton, NJ USA
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- Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland
- Global Change Research Centre and Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
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Manning JG, Ludlow F, Stine AR, Boos WR, Sigl M, Marlon JR. Volcanic suppression of Nile summer flooding triggers revolt and constrains interstate conflict in ancient Egypt. Nat Commun 2017; 8:900. [PMID: 29042538 PMCID: PMC5645420 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-017-00957-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 73] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/10/2016] [Accepted: 08/08/2017] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
Abstract
Volcanic eruptions provide tests of human and natural system sensitivity to abrupt shocks because their repeated occurrence allows the identification of systematic relationships in the presence of random variability. Here we show a suppression of Nile summer flooding via the radiative and dynamical impacts of explosive volcanism on the African monsoon, using climate model output, ice-core-based volcanic forcing data, Nilometer measurements, and ancient Egyptian writings. We then examine the response of Ptolemaic Egypt (305–30 BCE), one of the best-documented ancient superpowers, to volcanically induced Nile suppression. Eruptions are associated with revolt onset against elite rule, and the cessation of Ptolemaic state warfare with their great rival, the Seleukid Empire. Eruptions are also followed by socioeconomic stress with increased hereditary land sales, and the issuance of priestly decrees to reinforce elite authority. Ptolemaic vulnerability to volcanic eruptions offers a caution for all monsoon-dependent agricultural regions, presently including 70% of world population. The degree to which human societies have responded to past climatic changes remains unclear. Here, using a novel combination of approaches, the authors show how volcanically-induced suppression of Nile summer flooding led to societal unrest in Ptolemaic Egypt (305–30 BCE).
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- Joseph G Manning
- Departments of History and Classics, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 06520, USA.,Yale Law School, New Haven, CT, 06511, USA
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- Yale Climate & Energy Institute and Department of History, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 06511, USA. .,Department of History, School of Histories & Humanities, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland.
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- Department of Earth & Climate Sciences, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA, 94132, USA
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- Department of Earth and Planetary Science, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA.,Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
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- Laboratory of Environmental Chemistry, Paul Scherrer Institute, 5232, Villigen, Switzerland.,Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, Bern, 3012, Switzerland
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- School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 06511, USA
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Arienzo MM, McConnell JR, Chellman N, Criscitiello AS, Curran M, Fritzsche D, Kipfstuhl S, Mulvaney R, Nolan M, Opel T, Sigl M, Steffensen JP. A Method for Continuous (239)Pu Determinations in Arctic and Antarctic Ice Cores. Environ Sci Technol 2016; 50:7066-7073. [PMID: 27244483 DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.6b01108] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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Atmospheric nuclear weapons testing (NWT) resulted in the injection of plutonium (Pu) into the atmosphere and subsequent global deposition. We present a new method for continuous semiquantitative measurement of (239)Pu in ice cores, which was used to develop annual records of fallout from NWT in ten ice cores from Greenland and Antarctica. The (239)Pu was measured directly using an inductively coupled plasma-sector field mass spectrometer, thereby reducing analysis time and increasing depth-resolution with respect to previous methods. To validate this method, we compared our one year averaged results to published (239)Pu records and other records of NWT. The (239)Pu profiles from the Arctic ice cores reflected global trends in NWT and were in agreement with discrete Pu profiles from lower latitude ice cores. The (239)Pu measurements in the Antarctic ice cores tracked low latitude NWT, consistent with previously published discrete records from Antarctica. Advantages of the continuous (239)Pu measurement method are (1) reduced sample preparation and analysis time; (2) no requirement for additional ice samples for NWT fallout determinations; (3) measurements are exactly coregistered with all other chemical, elemental, isotopic, and gas measurements from the continuous analytical system; and (4) the long half-life means the (239)Pu record is stable through time.
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- M M Arienzo
- Desert Research Institute , 2215 Raggio Parkway, Reno, Nevada 89512, United States
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- Desert Research Institute , 2215 Raggio Parkway, Reno, Nevada 89512, United States
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- Desert Research Institute , 2215 Raggio Parkway, Reno, Nevada 89512, United States
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- University of Calgary , 2500 University Dr NW, Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4, Canada
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- Australian Antarctic Division, 203 Channel Highway, Kingston Tasmania 7050, Australia
- Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre, University of Tasmania , Hobart 7001, Australia
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- Alfred-Wegener-Institut, Potsdam/Bremerhaven, Germany
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- Alfred-Wegener-Institut, Potsdam/Bremerhaven, Germany
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- British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0ET, United Kingdom
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- University of Alaska Fairbanks , 505 N Chandalar Dr, Fairbanks, Alaska 99775, United States
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- Alfred-Wegener-Institut, Potsdam/Bremerhaven, Germany
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- Paul Scherrer Institute , 5232 Villigen, Switzerland
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- Centre for Ice and Climate, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen , Copenhagen, Denmark
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Mekhaldi F, Muscheler R, Adolphi F, Aldahan A, Beer J, McConnell JR, Possnert G, Sigl M, Svensson A, Synal HA, Welten KC, Woodruff TE. Multiradionuclide evidence for the solar origin of the cosmic-ray events of ᴀᴅ 774/5 and 993/4. Nat Commun 2015; 6:8611. [PMID: 26497389 PMCID: PMC4639793 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms9611] [Citation(s) in RCA: 161] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/03/2015] [Accepted: 09/10/2015] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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The origin of two large peaks in the atmospheric radiocarbon (14C) concentration at AD 774/5 and 993/4 is still debated. There is consensus, however, that these features can only be explained by an increase in the atmospheric 14C production rate due to an extraterrestrial event. Here we provide evidence that these peaks were most likely produced by extreme solar events, based on several new annually resolved 10Be measurements from both Arctic and Antarctic ice cores. Using ice core 36Cl data in pair with 10Be, we further show that these solar events were characterized by a very hard energy spectrum with high fluxes of solar protons with energy above 100 MeV. These results imply that the larger of the two events (AD 774/5) was at least five times stronger than any instrumentally recorded solar event. Our findings highlight the importance of studying the possibility of severe solar energetic particle events. Natural spikes in radiocarbon have been identified at ᴀᴅ 774/5 and 993/4 and attributed to exceptional cosmic-ray events, although the cause remains uncertain. Here, the authors analyse records recovered from ice cores and suggest these spikes originated from extreme solar particle events.
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- Florian Mekhaldi
- Department of Geology-Quaternary Sciences, Lund University, 22362 Lund, Sweden
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- Department of Geology-Quaternary Sciences, Lund University, 22362 Lund, Sweden
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- Department of Geology-Quaternary Sciences, Lund University, 22362 Lund, Sweden
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- Department of Geology, United Arab Emirates University, 17551 Al Ain, UAE.,Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University, 75236 Uppsala, Sweden
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- Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, 8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
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- Division of Hydrologic Sciences, Desert Research Institute, Reno, Nevada 89512, USA
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- Tandem Laboratory, Uppsala University, 75120 Uppsala, Sweden
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- Division of Hydrologic Sciences, Desert Research Institute, Reno, Nevada 89512, USA.,Laboratory for Radiochemistry and Environmental Chemistry, Paul Scherrer Institut, 5232 Villigen, Switzerland
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- Center for Ice and Climate, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Laboratory of Ion Beam Physics, ETH Zürich, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland
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- Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- PRIME Laboratory, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, USA
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McConnell JR, Maselli OJ, Sigl M, Vallelonga P, Neumann T, Anschütz H, Bales RC, Curran MAJ, Das SB, Edwards R, Kipfstuhl S, Layman L, Thomas ER. Antarctic-wide array of high-resolution ice core records reveals pervasive lead pollution began in 1889 and persists today. Sci Rep 2014; 4:5848. [PMID: 25068819 PMCID: PMC5376174 DOI: 10.1038/srep05848] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/14/2014] [Accepted: 07/07/2014] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Interior Antarctica is among the most remote places on Earth and was thought to be beyond the reach of human impacts when Amundsen and Scott raced to the South Pole in 1911. Here we show detailed measurements from an extensive array of 16 ice cores quantifying substantial toxic heavy metal lead pollution at South Pole and throughout Antarctica by 1889 - beating polar explorers by more than 22 years. Unlike the Arctic where lead pollution peaked in the 1970s, lead pollution in Antarctica was as high in the early 20(th) century as at any time since industrialization. The similar timing and magnitude of changes in lead deposition across Antarctica, as well as the characteristic isotopic signature of Broken Hill lead found throughout the continent, suggest that this single emission source in southern Australia was responsible for the introduction of lead pollution into Antarctica at the end of the 19(th) century and remains a significant source today. An estimated 660 t of industrial lead have been deposited over Antarctica during the past 130 years as a result of mid-latitude industrial emissions, with regional-to-global scale circulation likely modulating aerosol concentrations. Despite abatement efforts, significant lead pollution in Antarctica persists into the 21(st) century.
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- Desert Research Institute, USA
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- Centre for Ice and Climate, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, USA
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- Imaging and Applied Physics, Curtin University, Australia
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- Alfred-Wegener-Institut, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung, Germany
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Kirchgeorg T, Dreyer A, Gabrieli J, Kehrwald N, Sigl M, Schwikowski M, Boutron C, Gambaro A, Barbante C, Ebinghaus R. Temporal variations of perfluoroalkyl substances and polybrominated diphenyl ethers in alpine snow. Environ Pollut 2013; 178:367-374. [PMID: 23607941 DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2013.03.043] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/11/2012] [Revised: 03/16/2013] [Accepted: 03/19/2013] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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The occurrence and temporal variation of 18 perfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) and 8 polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) in the European Alps was investigated in a 10 m shallow firn core from Colle Gnifetti in the Monte Rosa Massif (4455 m above sea level). The firn core encompasses the years 1997-2007. Firn core sections were analyzed by liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (PFASs) and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (PBDEs). We detected 12 PFASs and 8 PBDEs in the firn samples. Perfluorobutanoic acid (PFBA; 0.3-1.8 ng L(-1)) and perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA; 0.2-0.6 ng L(-1)) were the major PFASs while BDE 99 (<MQL-4.5 ng L(-1)) and BDE 47 (n.d.-2.6 ng L(-1)) were the major PBDEs. This study demonstrates the occurrence of PFASs and PBDEs in the European Alps and provides the first evidence that PFASs compositions may be changing to PFBA-dominated compositions.
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- Torben Kirchgeorg
- Department for Environmental Chemistry, Institute of Coastal Research, Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht, Max-Planck-Straße 1, 21502 Geesthacht, Germany.
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Sigl M, Spoerl S, Schnittger S, Meissner J, Rummelt C, Peschel C, Duyster J, Ho AD, von Bubnoff N. Imatinib failure and response to dasatinib in a patient with chronic myeloid leukemia in blast crisis and a novel, nine-nucleotide BCR-ABL insertion mutation. Blood Cancer J 2013; 3:e104. [PMID: 23474746 PMCID: PMC3615216 DOI: 10.1038/bcj.2013.3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/05/2022] Open
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- M Sigl
- III Medizinische Klinik und Poliklinik, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technische Universität München, München, Germany
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Kellerhals T, Brütsch S, Sigl M, Knüsel S, Gäggeler HW, Schwikowski M. Ammonium concentration in ice cores: A new proxy for regional temperature reconstruction? ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2010. [DOI: 10.1029/2009jd012603] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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von Bubnoff N, Rummelt C, Menzel H, Sigl M, Peschel C, Duyster J. Identification of a secondary FLT3/A848P mutation in a patient with FLT3-ITD-positive blast phase CMML and response to sunitinib and sorafenib. Leukemia 2010; 24:1523-5. [DOI: 10.1038/leu.2010.122] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Gabrieli J, Vallelonga P, Cozzi G, Gabrielli P, Gambaro A, Sigl M, Decet F, Schwikowski M, Gäggeler H, Boutron C, Cescon P, Barbante C. Post 17th-century changes of European PAH emissions recorded in high-altitude Alpine snow and ice. Environ Sci Technol 2010; 44:3260-3266. [PMID: 20392089 DOI: 10.1021/es903365s] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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The occurrence of organic pollutants in European Alpine snow/ice has been reconstructed over the past three centuries using a new online extraction method for polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) followed by liquid chromatographic determination. The meltwater flow from a continuous ice core melting system was split into two aliquots, with one aliquot directed to an inductively coupled plasma quadrupole mass spectrometer for continuous trace elements determinations and the second introduced into a solid phase C18 (SPE) cartridge for semicontinuous PAH extraction. The depth resolution for PAH extractions ranged from 40 to 70 cm, and corresponds to 0.7-5 years per sample. The concentrations of 11 PAH were determined in dated snow/ice samples to reconstruct the atmospheric concentration of these compounds in Europe for the last 300 years. The PAH pattern is dominated by phenanthrene (Phe), fluoranthene (Fla), and pyrene (Pyr), which represent 60-80% of the total PAH mass. Before 1875 the sum of PAH concentration (SigmaPAH) was very low with total mean concentrations less than 2 ng/kg and 0.08 ng/kg for the heavier compounds (SigmaPAH*, more than four aromatic rings). During the first phase of the industrial revolution (1770-1830) the PAH deposition showed a weak increase which became much greater from the start of the second phase of the industrial revolution at the end of 19th Century. In the 1920s, economic recession in Europe decreased PAH emissions until the 1930s when they increased again and reached a maximum concentration of 32 ng/kg from 1945 to 1955. From 1955 to 1975 the PAH concentrations decreased significantly, reflecting improvements in emission controls especially from major point sources, while from 1975 to 2003 they rose to levels equivalent to those in 1910. The Fla/(Fla+Pyr) ratio is often used for source assignment and here indicates an increase in the relative contribution of gasoline and diesel combustion with respect to coal and wood burning from 1860 to the 1980s. This trend was reversed during the last two decades.
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- Jacopo Gabrieli
- Department of Environmental Sciences, University Ca' Foscari of Venice, Dorsoduro 2137, 30123 Venice, Italy
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Kellerhals T, Tobler L, Brütsch S, Sigl M, Wacker L, Gäggeler HW, Schwikowski M. Thallium as a tracer for preindustrial volcanic eruptions in an ice core record from Illimani, Bolivia. Environ Sci Technol 2010; 44:888-93. [PMID: 20050662 DOI: 10.1021/es902492n] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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Trace element records from glacier and ice sheet archives provide insights into biogeochemical cycles, atmospheric circulation changes, and anthropogenic pollution history. We present the first continuous high-resolution thallium (Tl) record, derived from an accurately dated ice core from tropical South America, and discuss Tl as a tracer for volcanic eruptions. We identify four prominent Tl peaks and propose that they represent signals from the massive explosive eruptions of the "unknown 1258" A.D. volcano, of Kuwae ( approximately 1450 A.D.), Tambora (1815 A.D.), and Krakatoa (1883 A.D.). The highly resolved record was obtained with an improved setup for the continuous analysis of trace elements in ice with inductively coupled plasma sector field mass spectrometry (ICP-SFMS). The new setup allowed for a stronger initial acidification of the meltwater and shorter tubing length, thereby reducing the risk of memory effects and losses of analytes to the capillary walls. With a comparison of the continuous method to the established conventional decontamination and analysis procedure for discrete samples, we demonstrate the accuracy of the continuous method for Tl analyses.
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- Thomas Kellerhals
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Bern, Switzerland.
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Jenk TM, Szidat S, Bolius D, Sigl M, Gäggeler HW, Wacker L, Ruff M, Barbante C, Boutron CF, Schwikowski M. A novel radiocarbon dating technique applied to an ice core from the Alps indicating late Pleistocene ages. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2009. [DOI: 10.1029/2009jd011860] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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