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Nevado Huascarán (PERU; 9S,77W)

Nevado Huascarán Overview
Data Sets and Desciptions	Data Overview / Description (Thompson,L.G.) Age Model Description (Thompson,L.G.)
New Stories	Late Glacial Stage and Holocene tropical ice core records from Huascarán, Peru.
Nevado Huascarán Core 1
Annual Data Sets	Annual Layer Thickness Data Core 1 (Thompson,L.G.) Calendar Year dO18 data (Thompson,L.G.) Thermal Year dO18 data (Thompson,L.G.) Time Linearized dO18 data (Thompson,L.G.)
Sample Data Sets	Anions (Thompson,L.G.) d18O (Thompson,L.G.) Density (Thompson,L.G.) Large Dust (Thompson,L.G.) Sample size profile (Thompson,L.G.)
Nevado Huascarán Core 2
Annual Data Sets	Annual Layer Thickness Data Core 2 (Thompson,L.G.) d18O, NO3, Particle Data, Top 100Yr. Cal. Year d18O, NO3, Particle Data, Top 100Yr. Thermal Year d18O, NO3, Particle Data, Top 100Yr. Time Linearized Year
Sample Data Sets	Anions Beta d18O d18O atm 36 Cl Dust Density Sample Profile

Quelccaya Ice Cap (PERU; 13S,70W)

Quelccaya Data Sets Overview
Data Descriptions	Core 1 and Summit Core Particle, d18O, and Accumulation Data Description (Thompson,L.G.) Snow Pit Microparticle Data Description (Thompson,L.G.)
Snow Pit Data	1976 Snow Pit Microparticle Data, Size Ranges <2.5 micron 1976 Snow Pit Microparticle Data, Size Ranges 2.5-16 microns 1976 Snow Pit Microparticle Data, Total Particle Sums 1977 Snow Pit Microparticle Data, Size Ranges <2.5 micron 1977 Snow Pit Microparticle Data, Size Ranges 2.5-16 microns 1977 Snow Pit Microparticle Data, Total Particle Sums 1978 Snow Pit Microparticle Data, Size Ranges <2.5 micron 1978 Snow Pit Microparticle Data, Size Ranges 2.5-16 micron 1978 Snow Pit Microparticle Data, Total Particle Sums
1983 Summit Core Annual data	Summit Core Particle, d18O, and Accumulation Data(Thompson,L.G.)
1983 Core 1 Annual data	Core 1 Particle, d18O, and Accumulation Data(Thompson,L.G.)


World Data Center for Paleoclimatology Mirror (Ice Core Gateway):

Key papers:

Thompson, L.G., E. Mosley-Thompson, M.E. Davis, P-N. Lin, K.A. Henderson, J. Cole-Dai, J.F. Bolzan and K-b. Liu. Late Glacial Stage and Holocene tropical ice core records from Huascarán, Peru. Science, 269, 46-50. Abstract

Thompson, L. G., E. Mosley-Thompson, J. F. Bolzan and B. R. Koci. 1985. A 1500 year record of tropical precipitation recorded in ice cores from the Quelccaya Ice Cap, Peru. Science, 229(4717), 971-973.

Thompson, L.G., E. Mosley-Thompson, W. Dansgaard and P.M. Grootes. The "Little Ice Age" as recorded in the stratigraphy of the tropical Quelccaya ice cap. Science, 234, 361-364.

Peru | Available Data

Nevado Huascarán (PERU; 9S,77W)

Nevado Huascarán Core 1

Nevado Huascarán Core 2

Quelccaya Ice Cap (PERU; 13S,70W)

Quelccaya Data Sets Overview

World Data Center for Paleoclimatology Mirror (Ice Core Gateway):

Key papers: