Advancing the use of radiocarbon in studies of global and regional carbon cycling with high precision measurements of ¹⁴C in CO₂ from the Scripps CO₂ Program

• Main Author: Graven, Heather Dawn
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: eScholarship, University of California 2008
• Subjects: UCSD Earth sciences. (Discipline) Dissertations; Academic; Scripps; Southern Ocean
• Online Access: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/1sd4q4dd; http://n2t.net/ark:/20775/bb2936021m

Measurements of \¹\⁴C in atmospheric CO\₂ have served as a powerful geochemical tracer since the first observation programs began over 50 years ago. As the nuclear weapons tests of the 1950s and 60s caused an enormous perturbation to natural atmospheric \¹\⁴C levels, tracking the response of \¹\⁴C i...