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Articles | Volume 20, issue 11
Articles | Volume 20, issue 11
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-20-2487-2024
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12 Nov 2024
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Predicting trends in atmospheric CO2 across the Mid-Pleistocene Transition using existing climate archives

Jordan R. W. Martin, Joel B. Pedro, and Tessa R. Vance

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We use existing palaeoclimate data and a statistical model to predict atmospheric CO2 concentrations across the Mid-Pleistocene Transition. Our prediction assumes that the relationship between CO2 and benthic ẟ18Ocalcite over the past 800 000 years can be extended over the last 1.8 million years. We find no clear evidence from existing blue ice or proxy-based CO2 data to reject the predicted record. A definitive test awaits analysis of continuous oldest ice core records from Antarctica.
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