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27 Oct 2021
Research article |
| 27 Oct 2021
| 27 Oct 2021
Evolution of mean ocean temperature in Marine Isotope Stage 4
Sarah Shackleton
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San
Diego, La Jolla, 92093, USA
present address: Department of Geosciences, Princeton University,
Princeton, 08544, USA
James A. Menking
College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State
University, Corvallis, 97331, USA
Edward Brook
College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State
University, Corvallis, 97331, USA
Christo Buizert
College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State
University, Corvallis, 97331, USA
Michael N. Dyonisius
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Rochester, Rochester,
14627, USA
present address: Physics of Ice, Climate and Earth, Niels Bohr
Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Vasilii V. Petrenko
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Rochester, Rochester,
14627, USA
Daniel Baggenstos
Climate and Environmental Physics, Physics Institute and Oeschger
Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Jeffrey P. Severinghaus
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San
Diego, La Jolla, 92093, USA
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With new high-precision observations from nine aircraft campaigns and 3-D chemical transport modeling, we show that the argon-to-nitrogen ratio (Ar / N2) in the lowermost stratosphere provides a useful constraint on the “age of air” (the time elapsed since entry of an air parcel into the stratosphere). Therefore, Ar / N2 in combination with traditional age-of-air indicators, such as CO2 and N2O, could provide new insights into atmospheric mixing and transport.
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Short summary
In this study, we measure atmospheric noble gases trapped in ice cores to reconstruct ocean temperature during the last glaciation. Comparing the new reconstruction to other climate records, we show that the ocean reached its coldest temperatures before ice sheets reached maximum volumes and atmospheric CO2 reached its lowest concentrations. Ocean cooling played a major role in lowering atmospheric CO2 early in the glaciation, but it only played a minor role later.
In this study, we measure atmospheric noble gases trapped in ice cores to reconstruct ocean...
