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Millennial variations in atmospheric CO2 during the early Holocene (11.7–7.4 ka)
Jinhwa Shin
School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul, 151-742, Republic of Korea
current address: Division of Glacial Environment Research, Korea Polar Research Institute (KOPRI), Incheon, 21990, Republic of Korea
Jinho Ahn
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul, 151-742, Republic of Korea
Jai Chowdhry Beeman
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, LSCE/IPSL, CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191,
Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Hun-Gyu Lee
School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul, 151-742, Republic of Korea
Jaemyeong Mango Seo
Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, 20146, Germany
Edward J. Brook
College of Earth, Oceanic, and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331-5506, USA
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Carbon monoxide (CO) is a regulated pollutant and one of the key components determining the oxidizing capacity of the atmosphere. In this study, we analyzed five ice cores from Greenland at high resolution for CO concentrations by coupling laser spectrometry with continuous melting. By combining these new datasets, we produced an upper-bound estimate of past atmospheric CO abundance since preindustrial times for the Northern Hemisphere high latitudes, covering the period from 1700 to 1957 CE.
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Short summary
We present a new and highly resolved atmospheric CO2 record from the Siple Dome ice core, Antarctica, over the early Holocene (11.7–7.4 ka). Atmospheric CO2 decreased by ~10 ppm from 10.9 to 7.3 ka, but the decrease was punctuated by local minima at 11.1, 10.1, 9.1, and 8.3 ka. We found millennial CO2 variability of 2–6 ppm, and the millennial CO2 variations correlate with proxies for solar forcing and local climate in the Southern Ocean, North Atlantic, and eastern equatorial Pacific.
We present a new and highly resolved atmospheric CO2 record from the Siple Dome ice core,...
