Articles | Volume 13, issue 9
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-13-1227-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-13-1227-2017
Research article
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22 Sep 2017
Research article |  | 22 Sep 2017

Atmospheric methane control mechanisms during the early Holocene

Ji-Woong Yang, Jinho Ahn, Edward J. Brook, and Yeongjun Ryu

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Early Holocene methane records from Siple Dome, Antarctica J. Ahn and J.-W. Yang https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.880561

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The early Holocene climate is characterized as an interglacial boundary condition without substantial human influence. Here we present a high-resolution CH4 record covering the early Holocene. The results show that abrupt cooling in Greenland and southward migration of ITCZ were able to induce an ~20 ppb CH4 decrease on a millennial timescale. The inter-polar difference exhibits a gradual increase during the early Holocene, implying the strengthening of northern extratropical emission.