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  <Entry_Title>West Belukha Plateau 12,800 Year Ice Core Isotope and Major Ions Data</Entry_Title>
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    <Dataset_Creator>Aizen, E.M.; Aizen, V.B.; Takeuchi, N.; Joswiak, D.R.; Fujita, K.; Nikitin, S.A.; Grigholm, B.; Zapf, A.; Mayewski, P.A.; Schwikowski, M.; Nakawo, M.</Dataset_Creator>
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    <Dataset_Release_Date>2012-12-06</Dataset_Release_Date>
    <Dataset_Publisher>NCDC-Paleoclimatology</Dataset_Publisher>
    <Data_Presentation_Form>ONLINE Files</Data_Presentation_Form>
    <Dataset_DOI>Pending</Dataset_DOI>
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    <Last_Name>Grigholm</Last_Name>
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    <Detailed_Variable>delta 2H,bulk ice,null,per mil VSMOW,null,ice cores,null,isotope ratio mass spectrometry,N,null</Detailed_Variable>
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  <Parameters>
    <Category>earth science</Category>
    <Topic>paleoclimate</Topic>
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    <Detailed_Variable>chloride,bulk ice,null,parts per billion,null,ice cores,null,null,N,null</Detailed_Variable>
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  <Parameters>
    <Category>earth science</Category>
    <Topic>paleoclimate</Topic>
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    <Category>earth science</Category>
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    <Term>ice core</Term>
    <Variable_Level_1>oxygen isotopes</Variable_Level_1>
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    <Category>earth science</Category>
    <Topic>paleoclimate</Topic>
    <Term>ice core</Term>
    <Variable_Level_1>hydrogen isotopes</Variable_Level_1>
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    <Category>earth science</Category>
    <Topic>paleoclimate</Topic>
    <Term>ice core</Term>
    <Variable_Level_1>chemistry</Variable_Level_1>
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  <ISO_Topic_Category>geoscientificInformation</ISO_Topic_Category>
  <Paleo_Temporal_Coverage>
    <Paleo_Start_Date>-10800 AD</Paleo_Start_Date>
    <Paleo_Stop_Date>2007 AD</Paleo_Stop_Date>
  </Paleo_Temporal_Coverage>
  <Paleo_Temporal_Coverage>
    <Paleo_Start_Date>12750 cal yr BP</Paleo_Start_Date>
    <Paleo_Stop_Date>-57 cal yr BP</Paleo_Stop_Date>
  </Paleo_Temporal_Coverage>
  <Data_Set_Progress>Complete</Data_Set_Progress>
  <Spatial_Coverage>
    <Southernmost_Latitude>49.8067</Southernmost_Latitude>
    <Northernmost_Latitude>49.8067</Northernmost_Latitude>
    <Westernmost_Longitude>86.5675</Westernmost_Longitude>
    <Easternmost_Longitude>86.5675</Easternmost_Longitude>
    <Minimum_Altitude>4115</Minimum_Altitude>
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    <Location_Category>Continent</Location_Category>
    <Location_Type>Europe</Location_Type>
    <Location_Subregion1>Eastern Europe</Location_Subregion1>
    <Location_Subregion2>Russia</Location_Subregion2>
    <Detailed_Location>West Belukha Plateau&gt;LATITUDE 49.8067&gt;LONGITUDE 86.5675</Detailed_Location>
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  <Use_Constraints>Please cite original publication, online resource, dataset and publication DOIs (where available), and date accessed when using downloaded data. If there is no publication information, please cite investigator, title, online resource, and date accessed. The appearance of external links associated with a dataset does not constitute endorsement by the Department of Commerce/National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration of external Web sites or the information, products or services contained therein. For other than authorized activities, the Department of Commerce/NOAA does not exercise any editorial control over the information you may find at these locations. These links are provided consistent with the stated purpose of this Department of Commerce/NOAA Web site.</Use_Constraints>
  <Data_Set_Language>English</Data_Set_Language>
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    <Data_Center_Name>
      <Short_Name>DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI</Short_Name>
      <Long_Name>National Centers for Environmental Information, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce </Long_Name>
    </Data_Center_Name>
    <Data_Center_URL>https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/data-access/paleoclimatology-data</Data_Center_URL>
    <Personnel>
      <Role>DATA Center Contact</Role>
      <First_Name>Bruce</First_Name>
      <Last_Name>Bauer</Last_Name>
      <Email>bruce.a.bauer@noaa.gov</Email>
      <Email>paleo@noaa.gov</Email>
      <Phone>303-497-6280</Phone>
      <Fax>303-497-6513</Fax>
      <Contact_Address>
        <Address>325 Broadway, E/NE31</Address>
        <City>Boulder</City>
        <Province_or_State>CO</Province_or_State>
        <Postal_Code>80305-3328</Postal_Code>
        <Country>USA</Country>
      </Contact_Address>
    </Personnel>
  </Data_Center>
  <Distribution>
    <Distribution_Media>online</Distribution_Media>
    <Distribution_Format>ASCII</Distribution_Format>
  </Distribution>
  <Reference>
    <Author>ELENA M. AIZEN, VLADIMIR B. AIZEN, NOZOMU TAKEUCHI, PAUL A. MAYEWSKI, BJORN GRIGHOLM, DANIEL R. JOSWIAK, STANISLAV A. NIKITIN, KOJI FUJITA, MASAYOSHI NAKAWO, ALEXANDER ZAPF, MARGIT SCHWIKOWSKI</Author>
    <Publication_Date>2016</Publication_Date>
    <Title>Abrupt and moderate climate changes at mid-latitudes of Asia during the Holocene</Title>
    <Series>Journal of Glaciology</Series>
    <Volume>62</Volume>
    <Issue>233</Issue>
    <Pages>411-439</Pages>
    <DOI>10.1017/jog.2016.34</DOI>
    <Online_Resource>https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-glaciology/article/abrupt-and-moderate-climate-changes-in-the-midlatitudes-of-asia-during-the-holocene/BE33A8122E7704B06804D520F5CAC521</Online_Resource>
  </Reference>
  <Reference>Koji Fujita, Nozomu Takeuchi, Vladimir Aizen and Stanislav Nikitin. 2004. 
Glaciological observations on the plateau of Belukha Glacier in the Altai Mountains, Russia from 2001 to 2003. 
Bulletin of Glaciological Research, Vol. 21, pp. 57 - 64</Reference>
  <Summary>
    <Abstract>In order to reconstruct past climate and environment changes from ice cores, the US-Russia-Japan joint research was carried out on the west plateau of Belukha Glacier in the Altai Mountains from 2001 to 2003. After two years reconnaissance researches, an ice core to the bottom (171 m) was successfully extracted in August 2003. We report in this paper the observational results during 3 years (2001-2003) with respect to mass balance, changes in surface level, surface flow velocities, meteorological and climatological data, and pits.  
          STUDY NOTES: High resolution  d18O, D2H, Na, K, Mg, Ca, Cl, NO3 and SO4 data from the 2003 
W.Belukha Snow-Firn Plateau surface to bedrock ice core. 
</Abstract>
  </Summary>
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  <DIF_Creation_Date>2018-12-11</DIF_Creation_Date>
  <Last_DIF_Revision_Date>2018-12-11</Last_DIF_Revision_Date>
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