Publications

Sowers, T., R.B. Alley, and J. Jubenville, 2003,
Ice Core Records of Atmospheric N2O Covering the Last 106,000 Years,
Science, Volume 301, Number 5635, pp. 945-948, Aug 15 2003.
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Sowers, T., A. Rodebaugh, N. Yoshida, and S. Toyoda, 2002
Extending records of the isotopic composition of atmospheric N2O back to 1800 A. D. from air trapped in snow at South Pole and the Greenland Ice Sheet Project II ice core, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, Vol, 16, No. 4, 1129,doi10.1029/2002GB001911, 2002.
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Sowers, T.,  2001
The N2O record spanning the penultimate deglaciation from the Vostok ice core. 
JGR atmospheres, Vol, 106 (D23), 31,903-31,914, 2001
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Sowers, T. and J. Jubenville, 2000
A modified extraction device for analyzing trapped gases in ice cores,
JGR Atmospheres Vol, 105, D23, pg 29,155-29,164, 2000.  


   Severinghaus, J. P., T. Sowers, E. J. Brook, R. B. Alley and M. 
L. Bender,  1998

 Timing of abrupt climate change at the end of the Younger Dryas interval
from the thermally fractionated gases in polar ice.

Nature, 391, 141-146, 1998.

 

 Sowers, T.A. et al., 1997

An inter-laboratory comparison of techniques for extracting and analyzing
trapped gases in ice cores,

 Journal of Geophysical Research, 102, 26,527-26,539,
1997.

 

 Brook, E., T. Sowers and J. Orchardo, 1996

Rapid variations in atmospheric methane concentration during the past 110,000
years, 

Science, 273, 1087-1091, 1996.

 

 Bender, M., T. Sowers, and V. Lipenkov, 1995

On the concentrations of O2, N2 and Ar in trapped gases from ice cores,

 Journal of Geophysical Research, 100, 18,651-18,660,
1995.

 

 Sowers, T.A., and M. Bender, 1995

Climate records during the last deglaciation, 

Science, 269, 210-214, 1995.

 

 Bender, M., T. Sowers, M.-L. Dickson, J. Orchardo, P. Grootes, P.
Mayewski, and D. Meese,  1994

Climate connections between Greenland and Antarctica during the last 100,000
years

 Nature, 372, 663-666, 1994.

 

 Bender, M.L., T. Sowers, J.-M. Barnola, and J. Chappellaz, 1994

Changes in the O2/N2
ratio of the atmosphere during recent decades reflaected in the composition
of air in the firn at Vostok Station, Antarctica, 

 Geophysical Research Letters, 21, 189-192, 1994.

 

 Bender, M.L., T.A. Sowers, and L. Labeyrie, 1994 

The Dole effect and its vairations druing the last 130,000 years as measured
in the Vostok ice core, 

Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 8, 363-376, 1994.

 

 Sowers, T., M. Bender, L. Labeyrie, D. Martinson, J. Jouzel, D. Raynaud,
J.J. Pichon, and Y. Korotkevich, 1993

135,000 Year Vostok-SPECMAP common temporal framework,

 Paleoceanography, 8, 737-766, 1993.

 

 Sowers, T., M. Bender, D. Raynaud, and Y.S. Korotkevich, 1992

The d15N of
N2 in air trapped in polar ice: a tracer 
of gas transport in the firn and a possible constraint on ice age-gas age
differences,

 Journal of Geophysical Research, 97, 15,683-15,697, 1992.

 

 Sowers, T., M. Bender, D. Raynaud, Y.S. Korotkevich, and J. Orchardo,
1991

 The d18O of 
atmospheric O2 from air inclusions in the 
Vostok ice core: 

Timing of CO2 and ice volume changes during
the penultimate deglaciation

Paleoceanography, 6, 679-696, 1991.

 

 Sowers, T.A., M.L. Bender, and D. Raynaud, 1989

Elemental and isotopic composition of occluded O2
and N2 in polar ice, 

Journal of Geophysical Research, 94, 5137-5150, 1989.