A method for determination of methyl chloride concentration in air trapped in ice cores

Takuya Saito; Yoko Yokouchi; Shuji Aoki; Takakiyo Nakazawa; Yoshiyuki Fujii; Okitsugu Watanabe

doi:10.1016/j.chemosphere.2005.08.075

A method for determination of methyl chloride concentration in air trapped in ice cores

Takuya Saito, Yoko Yokouchi, Shuji Aoki, Takakiyo Nakazawa, Yoshiyuki Fujii, Okitsugu Watanabe

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Abstract

A method for measuring the concentration of methyl chloride (CH₃Cl) in air trapped in an ice core was developed. The method combines the air extraction by milling the ice core samples under vacuum and the analysis of the extracted air with a cryogenic preconcentration/gas chromatograph/mass spectrometry system. The method was applied to air from Antarctic ice core samples estimated to have been formed in the pre-industrial and/or early industrial periods. The overall precision of the method deduced from duplicate ice core analyses was estimated to be better than ±20 pptv. The measured CH₃Cl concentration of 528 ± 26 pptv was similar to the present-day concentration in the remote atmosphere as well as the CH₃Cl concentration over the past 300 years obtained from Antarctic firn air and ice core analyses.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1209-1213
Number of pages	5
Journal	Chemosphere
Volume	63
Issue number	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2005.08.075
Publication status	Published - 2006 May

Keywords

Antarctica
Gas chromatography
Methyl halide
Paleoclimate
Stratospheric ozone

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Environmental Engineering
Environmental Chemistry
Chemistry(all)
Pollution
Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis

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