Proposing a mechanistic understanding of atmospheric CO2 during the late Pleistocene - a contribution to the EPICA challenge
Paleo-climate records in ice cores revealed high variability in temperature, atmospheric dust content and carbon dioxide. The longest CO2 record from the Antarctic ice core of the Vostok station went back in time as far as about 410 kyr BP showing a switch of glacials and interglacials in all those...
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ftawi:oai:epic.awi.de:12547 2023-09-05T13:14:59+02:00 Proposing a mechanistic understanding of atmospheric CO2 during the late Pleistocene - a contribution to the EPICA challenge Köhler, Peter Fischer, Philipp 2005 application/pdf https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/12547/ https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/12547/1/Khl2005e.pdf https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.22966 https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.22966.d001 unknown https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/12547/1/Khl2005e.pdf https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.22966.d001 Köhler, P. orcid:0000-0003-0904-8484 and Fischer, P. orcid:0000-0002-3357-5420 (2005) Proposing a mechanistic understanding of atmospheric CO2 during the late Pleistocene - a contribution to the EPICA challenge , Seventh International Carbon Dioxide Conference, 25-30 Septemer 2005, Broomfield, Colorada, USA. . hdl:10013/epic.22966 EPIC3Seventh International Carbon Dioxide Conference, 25-30 Septemer 2005, Broomfield, Colorada, USA. Conference notRev 2005 ftawi 2023-08-22T19:49:58Z Paleo-climate records in ice cores revealed high variability in temperature, atmospheric dust content and carbon dioxide. The longest CO2 record from the Antarctic ice core of the Vostok station went back in time as far as about 410 kyr BP showing a switch of glacials and interglacials in all those parameters approximately every 100 kyr during the last four glacial cycles with CO2 varying between 180- 280 ppmv. New measurements of dust and the isotopic temperature proxy deuterium of the EPICA Dome C (EDC) ice core covered the last 740 kyr, however, revealed glacial cycles of reduced temperature amplitude. These new archives offer the possibility to propose atmospheric CO2 for the pre-Vostok time span as called for in the EPICA challenge. Here, we contribute to this challenge using a box model of the isotopic carbon cycle (Köhler et al., submitted to GBC) based on process understanding previously derived for Termination I. Our Box model of the Isotopic Carbon cYCLE BICYCLE consists of ten ocean resvervoir in three depth layers distinguishing Atlantic, Indo-Pacific, and Southern Ocean, a seven compartment terrestrial biosphere and considers also fluxes of dissolved inorganic carbon and alkalinity between ocean and sediments. BICYCLE is forced by various ice core and marine sediment records to depict observed changes in ocean circulation, other physical processes and biogeochemistry. Our results show that major features of the Vostok period are reproduced while prior to Vostok our model predicts significantly smaller amplitudes in CO2 variations. The main contributions (in decreasing order) to the variations in pCO2 were given by changes in Southern Ocean vertical mixing, exchange fluxes between ocean an and sediment, sea surface temperature, North Atlantic deep water fo rmation, iron fertilisation, and Heinrich events. While most processes were reduced in their magnitude during the terminations of the pre-Vostok period, the absolute contribution of iron fertilisation changed only slightly. Thus, the relative ... Conference Object Antarc* Antarctic EPICA ice core North Atlantic Deep Water North Atlantic Southern Ocean Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar- and Marine Research (AWI): ePIC (electronic Publication Information Center) Antarctic Pacific Southern Ocean The Antarctic Vostok Station ENVELOPE(106.837,106.837,-78.464,-78.464) |
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Paleo-climate records in ice cores revealed high variability in temperature, atmospheric dust content and carbon dioxide. The longest CO2 record from the Antarctic ice core of the Vostok station went back in time as far as about 410 kyr BP showing a switch of glacials and interglacials in all those parameters approximately every 100 kyr during the last four glacial cycles with CO2 varying between 180- 280 ppmv. New measurements of dust and the isotopic temperature proxy deuterium of the EPICA Dome C (EDC) ice core covered the last 740 kyr, however, revealed glacial cycles of reduced temperature amplitude. These new archives offer the possibility to propose atmospheric CO2 for the pre-Vostok time span as called for in the EPICA challenge. Here, we contribute to this challenge using a box model of the isotopic carbon cycle (Köhler et al., submitted to GBC) based on process understanding previously derived for Termination I. Our Box model of the Isotopic Carbon cYCLE BICYCLE consists of ten ocean resvervoir in three depth layers distinguishing Atlantic, Indo-Pacific, and Southern Ocean, a seven compartment terrestrial biosphere and considers also fluxes of dissolved inorganic carbon and alkalinity between ocean and sediments. BICYCLE is forced by various ice core and marine sediment records to depict observed changes in ocean circulation, other physical processes and biogeochemistry. Our results show that major features of the Vostok period are reproduced while prior to Vostok our model predicts significantly smaller amplitudes in CO2 variations. The main contributions (in decreasing order) to the variations in pCO2 were given by changes in Southern Ocean vertical mixing, exchange fluxes between ocean an and sediment, sea surface temperature, North Atlantic deep water fo rmation, iron fertilisation, and Heinrich events. While most processes were reduced in their magnitude during the terminations of the pre-Vostok period, the absolute contribution of iron fertilisation changed only slightly. Thus, the relative ... |
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Proposing a mechanistic understanding of atmospheric CO2 during the late Pleistocene - a contribution to the EPICA challenge |
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Proposing a mechanistic understanding of atmospheric CO2 during the late Pleistocene - a contribution to the EPICA challenge |
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Proposing a mechanistic understanding of atmospheric CO2 during the late Pleistocene - a contribution to the EPICA challenge |
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Proposing a mechanistic understanding of atmospheric CO2 during the late Pleistocene - a contribution to the EPICA challenge |
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proposing a mechanistic understanding of atmospheric co2 during the late pleistocene - a contribution to the epica challenge |
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https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/12547/ https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/12547/1/Khl2005e.pdf https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.22966 https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.22966.d001 |
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https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/12547/1/Khl2005e.pdf https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.22966.d001 Köhler, P. orcid:0000-0003-0904-8484 and Fischer, P. orcid:0000-0002-3357-5420 (2005) Proposing a mechanistic understanding of atmospheric CO2 during the late Pleistocene - a contribution to the EPICA challenge , Seventh International Carbon Dioxide Conference, 25-30 Septemer 2005, Broomfield, Colorada, USA. . hdl:10013/epic.22966 |
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