Collaborative Research: The Ocean-Atmosphere Carbon Cycle and Climate Change: Constraints from Radiocarbon and Climate History

PI 将获取并解释来自密苏里州缝隙洞和中国南京葫芦洞的相同样本的洞穴洞穴 14C/12C 记录和高分辨率气候记录。这些记录将采用高精度 230Th 和 231Pa 技术独立且精确地确定日期，从而能够确定初始 14C/12C 值并建立绝对年表。 PI 将使用这些记录来 (1) 重建整个放射性碳时间尺度（最近 45 ky）的大气 14C/12C，以及 (2) 将这些记录直接与来自相同样本的气候记录进行比较。前者将对冰期以来海洋-大气碳循环的运行产生限制。后者将描述碳循环变化与气候变化之间的相互作用。两者都对理解当前和未来的碳循环具有影响。最近的研究表明，在 44 至 34 Ka 之间的大部分时间段内，大气 14C/12C 温度极高且多变。即使陆地和太阳磁场可以忽略不计，放射性碳值通常远高于现代碳循环所能达到的值。因此，这些数据需要现代和冰川碳循环之间的显着差异，以及冰川碳循环的巨大时间变化。这项工作的深远影响需要复制，最好是在收集该证据的巴哈马群岛以外的地点进行复制。

The PIs will obtain and interpret cave speleothem 14C/12C records and high-resolution climate records from the same samples from Crevice Cave, Missouri and Hulu Cave, Nanjing, China. The records will be dated independently and precisely with high precision 230Th and 231Pa techniques enabling determination of initial 14C/12C values and establishment of an absolute chronology. The PIs will use the records to (1) reconstruct atmospheric 14C/12C for the whole radiocarbon timescale (the last 45 ky) and (2) compare those records directly to the climate records from the same samples. The former will place constraints on the operation of the ocean-atmosphere carbon cycle since glacial times. The latter will characterize the interplay between changes in the carbon cycle and climate change. Both have implications for the understanding of the current and future carbon cycle. Recent work indicates extremely high and variable atmospheric 14C/12C for much of the interval between 44 and 34 Ka. The radiocarbon values are generally well above values that can be achieved with the modern carbon cycle, even if terrestrial and solar magnetic fields were negligible. These data therefore require significant differences between the modern and glacial carbon cycles, as well as large temporal changes in the glacial carbon cycle. The far-reaching implications of this work require replication, ideally at sites other than the Bahamas, the site where this evidence was collected.