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Controls on Early Cretaceous South Atlantic Ocean circulation and carbon burial – a climate model–proxy synthesis
Sebastian Steinig
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany
present address: School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
Wolf Dummann
Institute of Geology and Mineralogy, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
present address: Institute of Geosciences, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Peter Hofmann
Institute of Geology and Mineralogy, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
Martin Frank
GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany
Wonsun Park
GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany
Center for Climate Physics, Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Busan, Republic of Korea
Department of Climate System, Pusan National University, Busan, Republic of Korea
Thomas Wagner
The Lyell Centre Global Research Institute, Heriot–Watt University, Edinburgh, UK
Sascha Flögel
GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany
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Subject: Climate Modelling | Archive: Marine Archives | Timescale: Pre-Cenozoic
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Short summary
The opening of the South Atlantic Ocean, starting ~ 140 million years ago, had the potential to influence the global carbon cycle and climate trends. We use 36 climate model experiments to simulate the evolution of ocean circulation in this narrow basin. We test different combinations of palaeogeographic and atmospheric CO2 reconstructions with geochemical data to not only quantify the influence of individual processes on ocean circulation but also to find nonlinear interactions between them.
The opening of the South Atlantic Ocean, starting ~ 140 million years ago, had the potential to...
