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These links are provided consistent with the stated purpose of this Department of Commerce/NOAA Web site.","country":"USA","dataCenterUrl":"https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/data-access/paleoclimatology-data","email":"paleo@noaa.gov","fax":"303-497-6513","longName":"National Centers for Environmental Information, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce ","phone":"303-497-6280","postalCode":"80305-3328","shortName":"DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI","state":"CO","type":"CONTACT INFORMATION"},"contributionDate":"2017-12-19","dataPublisher":"NOAA","dataType":"ICE CORES","dataTypeInformation":"https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/data-access/paleoclimatology-data/datasets/ice-core","difMetadataLink":"http://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/metadata/published/paleo/dif/xml/noaa-icecore-21970.xml","doi":"https://doi.org/10.7289/V5B56H0D","earliestYearBP":1140,"earliestYearCE":810,"entryId":"noaa-icecore-21970","funding":[{"fundingAgency":"US National Science Foundation","fundingGrant":"AGS-1204035, AGS-1203838, AGS-1203863"}],"investigators":"Winski, D.A.; Osterberg, E.; Ferris, D.; Kreutz, K.J.; Wake, C.; Campbell, S.; Hawley, R.; Roy, S.; Birkel, S.; Introne, D.S.; Handley, M.","mostRecentYearBP":-62,"mostRecentYearCE":2012,"onlineResourceLink":"https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/study/21970","originalSource":null,"publication":[{"abstract":"Future precipitation changes in a warming climate depend regionally upon the response of natural climate modes to anthropogenic forcing. North Pacific hydroclimate is dominated by the Aleutian Low, a semi-permanent wintertime feature characterized by frequent low-pressure conditions that is influenced by tropical Pacific Ocean temperatures through the Pacific-North American (PNA) teleconnection pattern. Instrumental records show a recent increase in coastal Alaskan precipitation and Aleutian Low intensification, but are of insufficient length to accurately assess low frequency trends and forcing mechanisms. Here we present a 1200-year seasonally- to annually-resolved ice core record of snow accumulation from Mt. Hunter in the Alaska Range developed using annual layer counting and four ice-flow thinning models. Under a wide range of glacier flow conditions and layer counting uncertainty, our record shows a doubling of precipitation since ~1840 CE, with recent values exceeding the variability observed over the past millennium. The precipitation increase is nearly synchronous with the warming of western tropical Pacific and Indian Ocean sea surface temperatures. While regional 20th Century warming may account for a portion of the observed precipitation increase on Mt. Hunter, the magnitude and seasonality of the precipitation change indicate a long-term strengthening of the Aleutian Low.","author":{"name":"Dominic Winski, Erich Osterberg, David Ferris, Karl Kreutz, Cameron Wake, Seth Campbell, Robert Hawley, Samuel Roy, Sean Birkel, Douglas Introne, Michael Handley"},"citation":"Dominic Winski, Erich Osterberg, David Ferris, Karl Kreutz, Cameron Wake, Seth Campbell, Robert Hawley, Samuel Roy, Sean Birkel, Douglas Introne, Michael Handley. 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","edition":"17869","identifier":{"id":"10.1038/s41598-017-18022-5","type":"doi","url":"http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-18022-5"},"issue":null,"journal":"Scientific Reports","pages":null,"pubRank":"1","pubYear":2017,"reportNumber":null,"title":"Industrial-age doubling of snow accumulation in the Alaska Range linked to tropical ocean warming","type":"publication","volume":"7"}],"reconstruction":"N","scienceKeywords":null,"site":[{"NOAASiteId":"57580","geo":{"geoType":"Feature","geometry":{"coordinates":["62.9333","-151.0833"],"type":"POINT"},"properties":{"easternmostLongitude":"-151.0833","maxElevationMeters":"3900","minElevationMeters":"3900","northernmostLatitude":"62.9333","southernmostLatitude":"62.9333","westernmostLongitude":"-151.0833"}},"locationName":"Continent>North America>United States Of America>Alaska","mappable":"Y","paleoData":[{"NOAADataTableId":"34773","coreLengthMeters":208,"dataFile":[{"NOAAKeywords":["earth science>paleoclimate>ice core>accumulation"],"fileUrl":"https://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/icecore/trop/denali/hunter2017accum.txt","linkText":"Mt. 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