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Abrupt Change in Atmospheric CO2 During the Last Ice Age

Listed in NASA Earthdata CMR

During the last glacial period atmospheric carbon dioxide and temperature in Antarctica varied in a similar fashion on millennial time scales, but previous work indicates that these changes were gradual.

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In a detailed analysis of one event, we now find that approximately half of the CO2 increase that occurred during the 1500 year cold period between Dansgaard-Oeschger (DO) Events 8 and 9 happened rapidly, over less than two centuries.

This rise in CO2 was synchronous with, or slightly later than, a rapid increase of Antarctic temperature inferred from stable isotopes.

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Provenance · 1 source records, 14 field assertions
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NASA Earthdata CMRC2532070709-AMD_USAPDC9 d agoJSON v1
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access_levelsource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
concepts[instrument].gcmd_instrument:co2-analyzerssource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
concepts[instrument].gcmd_instrument:gas-chromatographssource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/paleoclimate/ice-core-records/carbon-dioxidesource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/paleoclimate/ice-core-records/methanesource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
concepts[platform].gcmd_platform:ground-based-observationssource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
concepts[platform].gcmd_platform:laboratorysource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
concepts[platform].gcmd_platform:not-providedsource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
descriptionsource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0/umm/Abstract
publication_datesource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
spatialsource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0/umm/SpatialExtent
temporalsource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0/umm/TemporalExtents
titlesource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0/umm/EntryTitle
version_labelsource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0