Denali

General Information

An 8 cm diameter, 208 m long surface-to-bedrock core dry drilled in May-June 2013 from the summit plateau (3900 m) of Mt. Hunter, located within Denali National Park in the central Alaska Range. The site is characterized by a high snow accumulation rate (1.4‐m w.e.) and cold mean annual temperature (-17 °C) (Polashenski and others, 2018). The period of record in the core is ~810-2012 CE (Winski and others, 2017).

Data
Publications
  • Chalif JI, Jongebloed UA, Osterberg EC, Koffman BG, Alexander B, Winski DA, Polashenski DJ, Stamieszkin K, Ferris DG, Kreutz KJ, Wake CP, Cole-Dai J (2024) Pollution drives multidecadal decline in subarctic methanesulfonic acid. Nature Geoscience. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-024-01543-w 
  • Fang L, Jenk TM, Winski D, Kreutz K, Brooks HL, Erwin E, Osterberg E, Campbell S, Wake C, and Schwikowski M (2023) Early Holocene ice on the Begguya plateau (Mt. Hunter, Alaska) revealed by ice core 14C age constraints. The Cryosphere, 17, 4007–4020. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-4007-2023
  • Moser DE, Thomas ER, Nehrbass-Ahles C, Eichler A, Wolff E (2024) Review article: Melt-affected ice cores for polar research in a warming world. The Cryosphere, 18, 2691-2718. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-18-2691-2024
  • Osterberg EC, Winski DA, Kreutz KJ, Wake CP, Ferris DG, Campbell S, Introne D, Handley M and Birkel S (2017) The 1200 year composite ice core record of Aleutian Low intensification, Geophys. Res. Lett., 44, 7447–7454, doi:10.1002/2017GL073697
  • Polashenski DJ, Osterberg EC, Koffman BG, Winski D, Stamieszkin K, Kreutz KJ, Wake CP, Ferris DG, Introne D, Campbell S, Lewis GM (2018) Denali ice core methanesulfonic acid records North Pacific marine primary production, Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 123, https://doi.org/10.1029/2017JD028123
  • Winski D, Osterberg E, Kreutz K, Wake C, Ferris D, Campbell S, Baum M, Bailey A, Birkel S, Introne D, Handley M (2018) A 400‐year ice core melt layer record of summertime warming in the Alaska Range, Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 123, 3594–3611. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017JD027539
  • Winski D, Osterberg E, Ferris D, Kreutz K, Wake C, Campbell S, Hawley R, Roy S, Birkel S, Introne D, Handley M (2017) Industrial-age doubling of snow accumulation in the Alaska Range linked to tropical ocean warming, Scientific Reports, 7:17869, doi:10.1038/s41598-017-18022-5