N2O changes from the Last Glacial Maximum to the preindustrial – Part 1: Quantitative reconstruction of terrestrial and marine emissions using N2O stable isotopes in ice cores
N2O changes from the Last Glacial Maximum to the preindustrial – Part 1: Quantitative reconstruction of terrestrial and marine emissions using N2O stable isotopes in ice cores
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N2O 从末次盛冰期到工业化前的变化 – 第 1 部分:使用冰芯中的 N2O 稳定同位素定量重建陆地和海洋排放
作者:
H. Fischer;J. Schmitt;M. Bock;B. Seth;F. Joos;R. Spahni;Sebastian Lienert;G. Battaglia;B. Stocker;A. Schilt;E. Brook
Abstract. Using high-precision and centennial-resolution ice core
information on atmospheric nitrous oxide concentrations and its stable
nitrogen and oxygen isotopic composition, we quantitatively reconstruct
changes in the terrestrial and marine N2O emissions over the last
21 000 years. Our reconstruction indicates that N2O emissions from land
and ocean increased over the deglaciation largely in parallel by 1.7±0.3 and 0.7±0.3 TgN yr−1, respectively, relative
to the Last Glacial Maximum level. However, during the abrupt Northern
Hemisphere warmings at the onset of the Bølling–Allerød warming and the end of
the Younger Dryas, terrestrial emissions respond more rapidly to the
northward shift in the Intertropical Convergence Zone connected to the
resumption of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation. About 90 %
of these large step increases were realized within 2 centuries at maximum.
In contrast, marine emissions start to slowly increase already many
centuries before the rapid warmings, possibly connected to a
re-equilibration of subsurface oxygen in response to previous changes.
Marine emissions decreased, concomitantly with changes in atmospheric
CO2 and δ13C(CO2), at the onset of the termination
and remained minimal during the early phase of Heinrich Stadial 1. During
the early Holocene a slow decline in marine N2O emission of 0.4 TgN yr−1 is reconstructed, which suggests an improvement of subsurface
water ventilation in line with slowly increasing Atlantic overturning
circulation. In the second half of the Holocene total emissions remain on a
relatively constant level, but with significant millennial variability. The
latter is still difficult to attribute to marine or terrestrial sources. Our
N2O emission records provide important quantitative benchmarks for
ocean and terrestrial nitrogen cycle models to study the influence of
climate on nitrogen turnover on timescales from several decades to
glacial–interglacial changes.
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作者:
Lewicka-Szczebak, Dominika;Well, Reinhard;Flessa, Heiner
通讯作者:
Flessa, Heiner