Southern Hemisphere westerlies as a driver of the early deglacial atmospheric CO2 rise

Despite decades of research, the sequence of events leading to the deglacial atmospheric CO2 rise remains unclear. Menviel et al. show that Southern Ocean convection driven by intensified Southern Hemisphere westerlies during Heinrich stadial 1 can explain the abrupt pCO2 rise and changes in atmosph...

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Main Authors: L. Menviel, P. Spence, J. Yu, M. A. Chamberlain, R. J. Matear, K. J. Meissner, M. H. England
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2018-06-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04876-4