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90,000 Yr Old Data Suggests Interlink Between Warming, CO2 and Ocean Currents
These findings provide scientists with more data and insights into how these phenomena were connected in the past and may lead to a better understanding of future climate trends.
With support from the National Science Foundation, Jinho Ahn and Edward Brook, both geoscientists at Oregon State University, analyzed 390 ice core samples taken from Antarctic ice at Byrd Station.
The samples offered a snap shot of the Earth's atmosphere and climate dating back between 20,000 and 90,000 years. Sections of the samples were carefully crushed, releasing gases from bubbles that were frozen within the ice through the millennia.
These ancient gas samples were then analyzed to measure the levels of carbon dioxide contained in each one.
Ahn and Brook then compared the carbon dioxide levels from the ice samples with climate data from Greenland and Antarctica that reflected the approximate temperatures when the gases were trapped and with ocean sediments in Chile and the Iberian Peninsula.
Data from the sediments provided the scientists with an understanding of how fast or slow the ocean currents were in the North Atlantic and how well the Southern Ocean was stratified during these same time periods.
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