Biological and physical controls in the Southern Ocean on past millennial-scale atmospheric CO2 changes

Julia Gottschalk; Luke C. Skinner; Jörg Lippold; Hendrik Vogel; Norbert Frank; Samuel L. Jaccard; Claire Waelbroeck

doi:10.1038/ncomms11539

Nature Communications (May 2016)

Biological and physical controls in the Southern Ocean on past millennial-scale atmospheric CO2 changes

Julia Gottschalk,
Luke C. Skinner,
Jörg Lippold,
Hendrik Vogel,
Norbert Frank,
Samuel L. Jaccard,
Claire Waelbroeck

Affiliations

Julia Gottschalk: Earth Sciences Department, Godwin Laboratory for Palaeoclimate Research, University of Cambridge
Luke C. Skinner: Earth Sciences Department, Godwin Laboratory for Palaeoclimate Research, University of Cambridge
Jörg Lippold: Institute of Geological Sciences and Oeschger Center for Climate Change Research, University of Bern
Hendrik Vogel: Institute of Geological Sciences and Oeschger Center for Climate Change Research, University of Bern
Norbert Frank: Institute of Environmental Physics, University of Heidelberg
Samuel L. Jaccard: Institute of Geological Sciences and Oeschger Center for Climate Change Research, University of Bern
Claire Waelbroeck: Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, LSCE/IPSL, CNRS-CEA-UVSQ, Université de Paris-Saclay

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11539
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Direct proxy evidence for the many explanations for past millennial-scale atmospheric CO2 changes remains scarce. Here, the authors show that changes in the efficiency of respired carbon storage in the deep Southern Ocean were linked to variations in atmospheric CO2over the last 65,000 years.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
Website: https://www.nature.com/ncomms/

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