New insights into past methane cycle changes from ice cores

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• Prof. Hubertus Fischer, Institute of Climate and Environmental Physics, University of Bern, Switzerland.
• Tuesday 09 September 2014, 14:00-15:00
• room 187, British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Cambridge, CB3 0ET.

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Latest analytical progress in methane ice core studies in terms of temporal resolution but also in terms of the methane isotopic composition provides new insights into past changes in the global methane cycle. The use of bipolar (isotopic) methane records allows us to determine the emissions of different methane source for times of relatively stable environmental conditions such as the Holocene. For glacial/interglacial changes, however, we found that not only wetland emission strengths are changing but also the isotopic signatures of the methane sources themselves are altered considerably. While this change in source signature allows us to make inferences about previously underestimated ecosystem changes in the past, it leaves the methane budget on such long time scale still underconstrained.

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