Siple Dome ice reveals two modes of millennial CO2 change during the last ice age

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Ahn, Jinho ^a   Brook, Edward J ^b  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; ICE; METHANE;

ANTARCTICA; ARTICLE; CARBON CYCLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COLD CLIMATE; GAS; GREENLAND; ICE AGE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERE; CHEMISTRY; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HISTORY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ANTARCTIC REGIONS; ATMOSPHERE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GAS; CLIMATE CHANGE; HISTORY, ANCIENT; ICE; METHANE;

EID: 84899881385     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4723     Document Type: Article

References (58)

1. Dansgaard, W. et al. Evidence for general instability of past climate from a 250-kyr ice-core record. Nature 364, 218-220 (1993).
2. Grootes, P. M., Stuiver, M., White, J. W. C., Johnsen, S. J. & Jouzel, J. Comparison of oxygen isotope records from the GISP2 and GRIP Greenland ice cores. Nature 366, 552-554 (1993).
3. Steffensen, J. P. et al. High-resolution Greenland ice core data show abrupt climate change happens in few years. Science 321, 680-684 (2008).
4. Thomas, E. R. et al. Anatomy of a Dansgaard-Oeschger warming transition: high-resolution analysis of the North Greenland Ice Core Project ice core. J. GeOphys. Res. 114, D08102 (2009).
5. Blunier, T. & Brook, E. J. Timing of millennial-scale climate change in Antarctica and Greenland during the last glacial period. Science 291, 109-112 (2001).
6. Clement, A. C. & Peterson, L. C. Mechanisms of abrupt climate change of the last glacial period. Rev. GeOphys. 46, RG4002 (2008).
7. Broecker, W. S. Paleocean circulation during the last deglaciation: a bipolar seesaw? Paleoceanography 13, 119-121 (1998).
8. Crowley, T. J. North Atlantic deep water cools the southern hemisphere. Paleoceanography 7, 489-497 (1992).
9. Schmittner, A., Saenko, O. A. & Weaver, A. J. Coupling of the hemispheres in observations and simulations of glacial climate change. Quat. Sci. Rev. 22, 659-671 (2003).
10. Stocker, T. F. & Johnsen, S. J. A minimum thermodynamic model for the bipolar seesaw. Paleoceanography 18, 1087 (2003).
11. 2 and climate on millennial time scales during the last glacial period. Science 322, 83-85 (2008).
12. 2 variability during the last glacial cycle associated with a bipolar marine carbon seesaw. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 109, 9755-9760 (2012).
13. 2 concentration. Nature 466, 47-55 (2010).
14. 2. Science 323, 1443-1448 (2009).
15. 2 rise. Science 328, 1147-1151 (2010).
16. McManus, J. F., Francois, R., Cherardi, J.-M., Keigwin, L. D. & Brown-Leger, S. Collapse and rapid resumption of Atlantic meridional circulation linked to deglacial climate changes. Nature 428, 834-837 (2004).
17. Lynch-Stieglitz, J., Curry, W. B. & Slowey, N. Weaker Gulf stream in the Florida straits during the last glacial maximum. Nature 402, 644-648 (1999).
18. Shackleton, N. J., Hall, M. A. & Vincent, E. Phase relationships between millennial-scale events 64,000-24,000 years ago. Paleoceanography 15, 565-569 (2000).
19. 2 during the last deglaciation. Clim. Past 8, 1213-1221 (2012).
20. 2 and Antarctic temperature during the last deglacial warming. Science 339, 1060-1063 (2013).
21. EPICA Community members. One-to-one coulpling of glacial climate variability in Greenland and Antarctica. Nature 444, 195-198 (2006).
22. 2 concentration form 60 to 20 kyr BP from the Taylor Dome ice core, Antarctica. GeOphys. Res. Lett. 27, 735-738 (2000).
23. 2 during the last ice age. GeOphys. Res. Lett. 39, L18711 (2012).
24. Brook, E. J. et al. Timing of millennial-scale climate change at Siple Dome, West Antarctica, during the last glacial period. Quat. Sci. Rev. 24, 1333-1343 (2005).
25. Schwander, J. et al. Age scale of the air in the summit ice: Implication for glacial-interglacial temperature change. J. GeOphys. Res. 102, 19483-19493 (1997).
26. Trudinger, C. M. et al. Modeling air movement and bubble trapping in firn. J. GeOphys. Res. 102, 6747-6763 (1997).
27. 2 concentrations over the last glacial termination. Science 291, 112-114 (2001).
28. 2 to the abrupt cooling event 8200 years ago. GeOphys. Res. Lett. 41, 604-609 (2014).
29. 2 and climate from 65 to 30 ka B.P. GeOphys. Res. Lett. 34, L10703 (2007).
30. Wang, Y. J. et al. A high-resolution absolute-dated late Pleistocene monsoon record from Hulu cave, China. Science 294, 2345-2348 (2001).
31. Kanner, L. C., Burns, S. J., Cheng, H. R. & Edwards, L. High-latitude forcing of the South American summer monsoon during the last glacial. Science 335, 570-573 (2012).
32. Margari, V. et al. The nature of millennial-scale climate variability during the past two glacial periods. Nat. GeOsci. 3, 127-131 (2010).
33. Elliot, M., Labeyrie, L. & Duplessy, J.-C. Changes in North Atlantic deep-water formation associated with the Dansgaard-Oeschger temperature oscillations (60-10 ka). Quat. Sci. Rev. 21, 1153-1165 (2002).
34. Chiang, J. C., Biasutti, M. & Battisti, D. S. Sensitivity of the Atlantic intertropical convergence zone to last glacial maximum boundary conditions. Paleoceanography 18, 1094 (2003).
35. Clark, P., Hostetler, S. W., Pisias, N. G., Schmittner, A. & Meissner, K. J. in Ocean Circulation: Mechanisms and Impacts, Vol. 173 (eds Andreas Schmittner, John Chiang & Sidney Hemming) 209-246 (AGU GeOphysical Monograph Series, 2007).
36. Marcott, S. et al. Ice-shelf collape from subsurface warming as a trigger for Heinrich events. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 108, 13415-13419 (2011).
37. Sarnthein, M. et al. in The Northern North Atlantic: A Changing Envrionment (eds Schäfer, P., Schlüter, M., Ritzrau, W. & Thiede, J.) 365-410 (Springer, 2001).
38. Hemming, S. Heinrich events: massive late Pleistocene detritus layers of the North Atlantic and their global climate imprint. Rev. GeOphys. 42, RG1005 (2004).
39. Schmittner, A., Brook, E. J. & Ahn, J. in Ocean Circulation: Mechanisms and Impacts Vol. 173 (esds Andreas Schmittner, John Chiang & Sidney Hemming) 315-334 (AGU GeOphysical Monograph Series, 2007).
40. 2, and climate change during the ice ages. Paleoceanography 21, PA2005 (2006).
41. Tschumi, T., Joos, F. & Parekh, P. How important are Southern Hemisphere wind changes for low glacial carbon dioxide? A model study. Paleoceanography 23, PA4208 (2008).
42. Menviel, L., Timmermann, A., Mouchet, M. & Timm, O. Meridional reorganizations of marine and terrestrial productivity during Heinrich events. Paleoceanography 23, PA4201 (2008).
43. 2 variations by the Southern Hemisphere westerlies. GeOphys. Res. Lett. 37, L21703 (2010).
44. Fischer, H. et al. Reconstruction of millennial changes in dust emission, transport and regional sea ice coverage using the deep EPICA ice cores from the Atlantic and Indian Ocean sector of Antarctica. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 260, 340-354 (2007).
45. Mayewski, P. A. et al. State of the Antarctic and Southern Ocean climate system. Rev. GeOphys. 47, RG1003 (2009).
46. Bozbiyik, A., Steinacher, M., Joos, F., Stocker, T. F. & Menviel, L. Fingerprints of changes in the terrestrial carbon cycle in response to large reorganizations in ocean circulation. Clim. Past 7, 319-338 (2011).
47. Menviel, L., Timmermann, A., Mouchet, M. & Timm, O. Meridional reorganizations of marine and terrestrial productivity during Heinrich events. Paleoceanography 23, PA1203 (2008).
48. 2 in response to a collapse of the North Atlantic thermohaline circulation. Clim. Dynamics. 25, 689-708 (2005).
49. 2 rise from ice cores. Science 336, 711-714 (2012).
50. Burke, A. & Robinson, L. F. The Southern Ocean's role in carbon exchange during the last deglaciation. Science 335, 557-561 (2012).
51. Schmittner, A. & Galbraith, E. D. Glacial greenhouse-gas fluctuations controlled by ocean circulation changes. Nature 456, 373-376 (2008).
52. 2 in small polar ice samples. J. Glaciol. 55, 499-506 (2009).
53. 2 during the last 40,000 years from the Siple Dome, Antarctica ice core. J. GeOphys. Res. 109, D13305 (2004).
54. Mitchell, L. E., Brook, E. J., Sowers, T., McConnell, J. R. & Taylor, K. Multidecadal variability of atmospheric methane, 1000-1800 C.E. J. GeOphys. Res. 116, G02007 (2011).
55. Svensson, A. et al. A 60 000 year Greenland stratigraphic ice core chronology. Clim. Past 4, 47-57 (2008).
56. Huber, C. et al. Isotope calibrated Greenland temperature record over Marine Isotope Stage 3 and its relation to CH4. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 243, 504-519 (2006).
57. North Greenland Ice Core Project members. High-resolution record of Northern Hemisphere climate extending into the last interglacial period. Nature 431, 147-151 (2004).
58. Schüpbach, S., Federer, U., Bigler, M., Fischer, H. & Stocker, T. F. A refinded TALDICE-1a age scale from 55 to 112 ka before present for the Talos Dome ice core based on high-resolution methane measurements. Clim. Past 7, 1001-1009 (2011).