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https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-20-1537-2024
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-20-1537-2024
Research article
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23 Jul 2024
Research article |  | 23 Jul 2024

Controls on Early Cretaceous South Atlantic Ocean circulation and carbon burial – a climate model–proxy synthesis

Sebastian Steinig, Wolf Dummann, Peter Hofmann, Martin Frank, Wonsun Park, Thomas Wagner, and Sascha Flögel

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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.