Southern Ocean carbon sink enhanced by sea-ice feedbacks at the Antarctic Cold Reversal

• Published in: Nature Geoscience
• Main Authors: Fogwill, C. J., Turney, C. S. M., Menviel, L., Baker, A., Weber, M. E., Ellis, B., Thomas, Z. A., Golledge, N. R., Etheridge, D., Rubino, M., Thornton, D. P., van Ommen, T. D., Moy, A. D., Curran, M. A. J., Davies, S., Bird, M., I, Munksgaard, N. C., Rootes, C. M., Millman, H., Vohra, J., Rivera, A., Mackintosh, A., Pike, J., Hall, I. R., Bagshaw, E. A., Rainsley, E., Bronk-Ramsey, C., Montenari, M., Cage, A. G., Harris, M. R. P., Jones, R., Power, A., Love, J., Young, J., Weyrich, L. S., Cooper, A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Nature 2020
• Subjects: Atmospheric CO2; Organic-carbon; Climate record; Patriot hills; Productivity; Cycle; Fertilization; Variability; Pleistocene; Trends; Antarctic; Patriot Hills; Southern Ocean; The Antarctic; Antarc*; ice core; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-020-0587-0; https://repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/176350

Increased Southern Ocean productivity driven by sea-ice feedbacks contributed to a slowdown in rising CO(2)levels during the last deglaciation, according to analyses of marine-derived aerosols from an Antarctic ice core. The Southern Ocean occupies 14% of the Earth's surface and plays a fundame...