Publication Date:
2024-01-09
Description:
We provide a reconstruction of atmospheric CO2 from deep-sea sediments, for the past 625000 years (Milankovitch chron). Our database consists of a Milankovitch template of sea-level variation in combination with a unique data set for the deep-sea record for Ontong Java plateau in the western equatorial Pacific. We redate the Vostok ice-core data of Barnola et al. (1987, doi:10.1038/329408a0). To make the reconstructions we employ multiple regression between deep-sea data, on one hand, and ice-core CO2 data in Antarctica, on the other. The patterns of correlation suggest that the main factors controlling atmospheric CO2 can be described as a combination of sea-level state and sea-level change. For best results squared values of state and change are used. The square-of-sea-level rule agrees with the concept that shelf processes are important modulators of atmospheric CO2 (e.g., budgets of shelf organic carbon and shelf carbonate, nitrate reduction). The square-of-change rule implies that, on short timescales, any major disturbance of the system results in a temporary rise in atmospheric CO2.
Keywords:
130-806B; DRILL; Drilling/drill rig; ERDC; ERDC-084P; ERDC-089P; ERDC-093P; ERDC-113P; Joides Resolution; Leg130; North Pacific Ocean; Ocean Drilling Program; ODP; PC; Piston corer; RNDB74; ROUNDABOUT; Thomas Washington
Type:
Dataset
Format:
application/zip, 6 datasets
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