A coupled model for carbon and radiocarbon evolution during the last deglaciation, link to model results

Changes in the ventilation of the Southern Ocean are thought to play an important role on deglacial carbon and radiocarbon evolution, but have not been tested within a coupled climate-carbon model. Here, we present such a simulation based on a simple scenario of transient deglacial sinking of brines...

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Main Authors: Mariotti, Véronique, Paillard, Didier, Bopp, Laurent, Roche, Didier M, Bouttes, Nathaëlle
Format: Dataset
Language:English
Published: PANGAEA 2016
Subjects:
Southern Ocean
Pacific
Antarc*
Antarctica
Sea ice
Online Access:https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.856973
https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.856973
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Summary:Changes in the ventilation of the Southern Ocean are thought to play an important role on deglacial carbon and radiocarbon evolution, but have not been tested within a coupled climate-carbon model. Here, we present such a simulation based on a simple scenario of transient deglacial sinking of brines — sea-ice salt rejections — around Antarctica, which modulates Southern Ocean ventilation. This experiment is able to reproduce deglacial atmospheric changes in carbon and radiocarbon but also ocean radiocarbon records measured in the Atlantic, Southern and Pacific Oceans. Simulated for the first time in a fully coupled climate-carbon model including radiocarbon, our modeling results suggest that the deglacial changes in atmospheric carbon dioxide and radiocarbon were achieved by means of a breakdown in the glacial brine-induced stratification of the Southern Ocean.

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