Decadal record of snow pit chemistry and water isotopes from the Upper Priestly Glacier, Antarctica

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This dataset contains water isotope, soluble ion and snow density data from a snow pit from the southern side of the Upper Priestly Glacier in Victoria Land, Antarctica. Samples were collected at 2 cm resolution from a 2 m snow pit in January 2024 during the TNB-2324 campaign. They were analysed for water isotopes ratios using high resolution laser absorption (Liquid Water Isotope Analyser, Los Gatos Research, DLT-100) and anion and cation concentrations using ion chromatography (Dionex, Integrion HPIC System). Here we report water isotopes of oxygen (δ18O) and hydrogen (δD), and concentrations of fluoride, methanesulfonic acid, chloride, bromide, nitrate, sulfate, acetate, formate, oxalate, sodium, ammonium, potassium, magnesium and calcium. The snow pit covers the period 2014-2024 and was dated using annual layer counting. Summers were identified where δD peaks aligned with peaks or shoulders of methanesulfonic acid and non sea salt sulfate. Winters were determined where a δD trough aligned with a peak in chloride and sodium concentrations. The snow pit data will help understand aerosol transport and deposition processes to the Upper Priestly Glacier site and interpret longer climate proxy records from ice cores at the site.

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DOI https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.993535
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.993535
Provenance
Creator Winton, V Holly L ORCID logo; Humby, Jack ORCID logo; Jones, Manon; Thomas, Elizabeth R ORCID logo
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2026
Funding Reference Royal Society Te Apārangi https://doi.org/10.13039/501100001509 Crossref Funder ID MFP-VUW2107
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; Data access is restricted (moratorium, sensitive data, license constraints); https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Resource Type Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values
Size 1924 data points
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (161.574 LON, -74.020 LAT); Victoria Land, Antarctica