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https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-15-849-2019
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-15-849-2019
Research article
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30 Apr 2019
Research article |  | 30 Apr 2019

Low terrestrial carbon storage at the Last Glacial Maximum: constraints from multi-proxy data

Aurich Jeltsch-Thömmes, Gianna Battaglia, Olivier Cartapanis, Samuel L. Jaccard, and Fortunat Joos

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A long-standing question in climate science is concerned with what processes contributed to the increase in atmospheric CO2 after the last ice age. From the range of possible processes we try to constrain the change in carbon storage in the land biosphere. By combining ice core and marine sediment data in a modeling framework we show that the carbon storage in the land biosphere increased largely after the last ice age. This will help to further understand processes at work in the Earth system.