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| Siani, Giuseppe; Michel, Elisabeth; De Pol-holz, Ricardo; Devries, Tim; Lamy, Frank; Carel, Melanie; Isguder, Gulay; Dewilde, Fabien; Lourantou, Anna. |
| The Southern Ocean plays a prominent role in the Earth's climate and carbon cycle. Changes in the Southern Ocean circulation may have regulated the release of CO2 to the atmosphere from a deep-ocean reservoir during the last deglaciation. However, the path and exact timing of this deglacial CO2 release are still under debate. Here we present measurements of deglacial surface reservoir C-14 age changes in the eastern Pacific sector of the Southern Ocean, obtained by C-14 dating of tephra deposited over the marine and terrestrial regions. These results, along with records of foraminifera benthic-planktic C-14 age and delta C-13 difference, provide evidence for three periods of enhanced upwelling in the Southern Ocean during the last deglaciation, supporting... |
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| Ano: 2013 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00263/37472/36804.pdf |
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| Lourantou, Anna; Metzl, Nicolas. |
| The fate of the Southern Ocean atmospheric CO(2) sink is under question. Here we assess seasonal to decadal changes of surface fCO(2) within an extended sink area along the track between Kerguelen and Amsterdam islands in the subantarctic zone. Data from 17 oceanographic cruises were used, from 1991 to 2011 and two distinct regions were examined, separated by the Subantarctic Front (SAF). The region south of the SAF displays a strong summer phytoplankton bloom of up to -28 mmol C m(-2) d(-1) within a calm area, constrained by physics and topography. On an annual basis, this region is a 6-fold more important sink than that deduced from Takahashi climatology, highlighting the importance of key-areas separate examination before proceeding to spatial... |
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Palavras-chave: Kerguelen; Air-sea CO2 fluxes; Carbon cycle; Frontal region; Island mass effect; Subantarctic zone. |
| Ano: 2011 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00144/25557/23706.pdf |
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