Deglacial mobilization of pre-aged terrestrial carbon from degrading permafrost.

Winterfeld, Maria, Mollenhauer, Gesine, Dummann, Wolf, Köhler, Peter, Lembke-Jene, Lester, Meyer, Vera D., Hefter, Jens, McIntyre, Cameron, Wacker, Lukas, Kokfelt, Ulla and Tiedemann, Ralf (2018) Deglacial mobilization of pre-aged terrestrial carbon from degrading permafrost. Open Access Nature Communications, 9 (1). Art.Nr. 3666. DOI 10.1038/s41467-018-06080-w.

[thumbnail of s41467-018-06080-w.pdf]
Preview
Text
s41467-018-06080-w.pdf - Published Version
Available under License Creative Commons: Attribution 4.0.

Download (1MB) | Preview

Supplementary data:

Abstract

The mobilization of glacial permafrost carbon during the last glacial–interglacial transition has been suggested by indirect evidence to be an additional and significant source of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere, especially at times of rapid sea-level rise. Here we present the first direct evidence for the release of ancient carbon from degrading permafrost in East Asia during the last 17 kyrs, using biomarkers and radiocarbon dating of terrigenous material found in two sediment cores from the Okhotsk Sea. Upscaling our results to the whole Arctic shelf area, we show by carbon cycle simulations that deglacial permafrost-carbon release through sea-level rise likely contributed significantly to the changes in atmospheric CO2 around 14.6 and 11.5 kyrs BP.

Document Type: Article
Research affiliation: HGF-AWI
Refereed: Yes
Open Access Journal?: Yes
Publisher: Nature Research
Projects: PalMod in-kind
Expeditions/Models/Experiments:
Date Deposited: 11 Sep 2018 09:23
Last Modified: 08 Feb 2021 07:31
URI: https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/44201

Actions (login required)

View Item View Item