Physics
Scientific paper
Oct 2007
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2007georl..3420703g&link_type=abstract
Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 34, Issue 20, CiteID L20703
Physics
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Cryosphere: Ice Cores (4932), Global Change: Abrupt/Rapid Climate Change (4901, 8408), Paleoceanography: Glacial
Scientific paper
New ice core analyses show that the prominent rise in atmospheric methane concentration at Dansgaard-Oeschger event 21 was interrupted by a century-long 20% decline, which was previously unrecognized. The reversal was found in a new ~100-year resolution study of methane in the GISP2 ice core, encompassing the beginning of D-O event 21, which also corresponds to the transition from MIS 5b to 5a. Although a corresponding reversal (within age uncertainty) is observed in climate proxies measured in GISP2 ice, including δ 18Oice, electrical conductivity, light scattering, and several ions, this feature has not been discussed previously. Abrupt changes in methane are paralleled by changes in δ 15N of trapped air, a quantity that reflects local temperature change at Greenland summit. The reversal described here supports the hypothesis that climate can be unstable during major transitions, as was previously described for the last deglaciation.
Brook Edward J.
Grachev Alexi M.
Severinghaus Jeffrey P.
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