Possible role for dust or other northern forcing of ice-age carbon dioxide changes

T. C. Johnston, R. B. Alley

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Abstract

A simple impulse-decay model driven by the history of atmospheric dust loading from Greenland can match the history of glacial-interglacial changes in atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration rather accurately, if model parameters are tuned within physically possible ranges; forcing with the Greenland temperature record produces a similarly good match. Calculations using southern forcing do not match as accurately. These results leave open the possibility of northern control of glacial-interglacial carbon dioxide changes.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)3198-3206
Number of pages9
JournalQuaternary Science Reviews
Volume25
Issue number23-24
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 2006

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Archaeology
  • Archaeology
  • Geology

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