Covariation of deep Southern Ocean oxygenation and atmospheric CO2 through the last ice age

Nature

Volumn 530, Issue 7589, 2016, Pages 207-210

  Jaccard, Samuel L ^a   Galbraith, Eric D ^b,c,d   Martínez Garciá, Alfredo ^e,f   Anderson, Robert F ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

^d INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIA I TECNOLOGIA AMBIENTALS   (Spain)

^e GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^f MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^g International Research Institute for Climate and Society   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; IRON; DUST; OXYGEN; SEA WATER;

ABYSSAL ZONE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DEEP SEA; IRON; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; OXYGENATION; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PLEISTOCENE; RECONSTRUCTION;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; CARBON STORAGE; DEGLACIATION; FERTILIZATION; ICE AGE; OXIDATION REDUCTION POTENTIAL; OXYGENATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ANTARCTICA; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CELL RESPIRATION; CHEMISTRY; CLIMATE; DUST; HISTORY; ICE COVER; METABOLISM; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; SEA; SEDIMENT; TEMPERATURE; WATER FLOW;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

ANTARCTIC REGIONS; ATMOSPHERE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CELL RESPIRATION; CLIMATE; DUST; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HISTORY, ANCIENT; ICE COVER; IRON; OCEANS AND SEAS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXYGEN; SEAWATER; TEMPERATURE; WATER MOVEMENTS;

EID: 84958078180     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature16514     Document Type: Article

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