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Articles | Volume 23, issue 11
Articles | Volume 23, issue 11
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-23-3939-2026
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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-23-3939-2026
© Author(s) 2026. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 23, issue 11
Research article
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15 Jun 2026
Research article |  | 15 Jun 2026

In situ production of hybrid N2O in dust-rich Antarctic ice

Lison Soussaintjean, Jochen Schmitt, Joël Savarino, J. Andy Menking, Edward J. Brook, Barbara Seth, Vladimir Lipenkov, Thomas Röckmann, and Hubertus Fischer

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Nitrous oxide (N2O) produced in dust-rich Antarctic ice complicates the reconstruction of past atmospheric levels from ice core records. Using isotope analysis, we show that N2O forms from two nitrogen precursors, one being nitrate. For the first time, we demonstrate that the site preference (SP) of N2O reflects the isotopic difference between these precursors, not the production pathway, which challenges the common interpretation of SP.
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