Acetylene and ethane data from the GISP2 and Tunu2013 ice cores (2019-2025)

This dataset contains analyses of acetylene (C2H2) and ethane (C2H6) in ice core samples from the GISP2D and Tunu2013 ice cores. The goal of the study was to use ice core measurements of these trace gases to reconstruct their paleoatmospheric abundances. The atmospheric levels of these trace gases are highly sensitive to the amount of biomass burning and therefore they have the potential to be used as proxies for past burning emissions. Information about paleofire and paleofire emissions is important both for estimating climate forcing due to trace gas emissions and to better understand the relationship between biomass burning and climate on long time scales.