Atmospheric CO2 concentration from 60 to 20 kyr BP from the Taylor Dome ice core, Antarctica

Type Article
Date 2000-03
Language English
Author(s) Indermuhle A1, Monnin E1, Stauffer B1, Stocker Tf1, Wahlen M2
Affiliation(s) 1 : Univ Bern, Inst Phys, CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland.
2 : Univ Calif San Diego, Scripps Inst Oceanog, La Jolla, CA 92093 USA.
Source Geophysical Research Letters (0094-8276) (Amer Geophysical Union), 2000-03 , Vol. 27 , N. 5 , P. 735-738
DOI 10.1029/1999GL010960
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Abstract A high-resolution record of the atmospheric CO2 concentration from 60 to 20 thousand years before present (kyr BP) based on measurements on the ice core of Taylor Dome, Antarctica is presented. This record shows four distinct peaks of 20 parts per million by volume (ppmv) on a millennial time scale. Good correlation of the CO2 record with temperature reconstructions based on stable isotope measurements on the Vostok ice core (Antarctica) is found.
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