The Cryosphere Discussions www.the-cryosphere-discuss.net 1994-0432 1994-0440 4 3 2010 10.5194/tcd-4-1343-2010 http://www.the-cryosphere-discuss.net/4/1343/2010/ http://www.the-cryosphere-discuss.net/4/1343/2010/tcd-4-1343-2010.html http://www.the-cryosphere-discuss.net/4/1343/2010/tcd-4-1343-2010.pdf 1343 1363 2010-08-20 Influence of the Tungurahua eruption on the ice core records of Chimborazo, Ecuador P. Ginot patrick.ginot@ird.fr U. Schotterer W. Stichler M. A. Godoi B. Francou M. Schwikowski Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), UMS222 OSUG, St. Martin d'Hères, France Laboratoire de Glaciologie et Géophysique de l'Environnement (LGGE), UMR5183, St. Martin d'Hères, France Division of Climate and Environmental Physics, University of Berne, Berne, Switzerland GSF-Institute for Hydrology, Neuherberg, Germany Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI), Villigen, Switzerland Dirección de Programas Antárticos, Instituto de la Patagonia, Universidad de Magallanes, Punta Arenas, Chile Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), UMR012 LTHE, Quito, Ecuador The comparison of two shallow ice cores recovered in 1999 and 2000 from the same place on Chimborazo summit glacier revealed the influence of the coincident Tungurahua volcanic eruption on their stable isotope and chemical records. 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