Last Glacial Maximum CO2 and δ13C successfully reconciled

Details Last Glacial Maximum CO2 and δ13C successfully reconciled Last Glacial Maximum CO2 and δ13C successfully reconciled

Jan 2011

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2011georl..3802705b&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 38, Issue 2, CiteID L02705

Physics

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Paleoceanography: Glacial, Paleoceanography: Biogeochemical Cycles, Processes, And Modeling (0412, 0414, 0793, 1615, 4805), Paleoceanography: Greenhouse Gases

Scientific paper

During the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM, ˜21,000 years ago) the cold climate was strongly tied to low atmospheric CO2 concentration (˜190 ppm). Although it is generally assumed that this low CO2 was due to an expansion of the oceanic carbon reservoir, simulating the glacial level has remained a challenge especially with the additional δ13C constraint. Indeed the LGM carbon cycle was also characterized by a modern-like δ13C in the atmosphere and a higher surface to deep Atlantic δ13C gradient indicating probable changes in the thermohaline circulation. Here we show with a model of intermediate complexity, that adding three oceanic mechanisms: brine induced stratification, stratification-dependant diffusion and iron fertilization to the standard glacial simulation (which includes sea level drop, temperature change, carbonate compensation and terrestrial carbon release) decreases CO2 down to the glacial value of ˜190 ppm and simultaneously matches glacial atmospheric and oceanic δ13C inferred from proxy data. LGM CO2 and δ13C can at last be successfully reconciled.

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