Carbon cycle instability as a cause of the late Pleistocene ice age oscillations - Modeling the asymmetric response

Journal Article · Wed Jun 01 00:00:00 EDT 1988 · Global Biogeochemical Cycles; (USA)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1029/GB002i002p00177· OSTI ID:7061009

Saltzman, B; Maasch, K A ^[1]

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1. Yale Univ., New Haven, CT (USA)

A dynamical model of the Pleistocene ice ages is presented, which incorporates many of the qualitative ideas advanced recently regarding the possible role of ocean circulation, chemistry, temperature, and productivity in regulating long-term atmospheric carbon dioxide variations. This model involves one additional term (and free parameter) beyond that included in a previous model (Saltzman and Sutera, 1987), providing the capacity for an asymmetric response. It is shown that many of the main features exhibited by the delta(O-18)-derived ice record and the Vostok core/delta(C-13)-derived carbon dioxide record in the late Pleistocene can be deduced as a free oscillatory solution of the model. 35 refs.

• OSTI ID: 7061009
• Journal Information: Global Biogeochemical Cycles; (USA), Vol. 2; ISSN 0886-6236
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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58 GEOSCIENCES
CARBON CYCLE
INSTABILITY
PLEISTOCENE EPOCH
CLIMATES
ATLANTIC OCEAN
BIOGEOCHEMISTRY
CARBON DIOXIDE
EARTH ATMOSPHERE
ICE
MATHEMATICAL MODELS
PALEOCLIMATOLOGY
QUANTITY RATIO
SEAS
STABILITY
VARIATIONS
CARBON COMPOUNDS
CARBON OXIDES
CENOZOIC ERA
CHALCOGENIDES
CHEMISTRY
GEOCHEMISTRY
GEOLOGIC AGES
OXIDES
OXYGEN COMPOUNDS
PALEONTOLOGY
QUATERNARY PERIOD
SURFACE WATERS
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