Episodic release of CO2 from the high-latitude North Atlantic Ocean during the last 135 kyr

Glacial-interglacial variations in atmospheric pCO2 remain unexplained. Here, the authors show that the Norwegian Sea, an modern area of intense CO2 uptake, acted as a CO2 source during the terminations of Heinrich stadials 1, 4 and 11, sometimes characterized by rapid increases in atmospheric pCO2.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Mohamed M. Ezat, Tine L. Rasmussen, Bärbel Hönisch, Jeroen Groeneveld, Peter deMenocal
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2017-02-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14498