Abstract
A new dry gas extraction and analysis method for small (1 cm 3) ice samples is presented. The extraction device, cooled to −20°C, contains two movable steel needle matrices for crushing the ice. During the crushing process the gas escaping from the ice sample is continuously analyzed for CO 2 with an infrared laserspectrometer. This method enables a fast measurement (few minutes) of the CO 2 concentration in the air bubbles with high spatial resolution in the ice core and a minimum potential contamination. An important CO 2 contamination source due to an interaction of water vapour with surfaces is shortly discussed. The reproducibility of extraction and analysis is ±2%. We analyzed CO 2 concentrations in the trapped air from different ice cores originating from the Greenland ice sheet and from Antarctica.
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