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EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS
Volume 522, Issue -, Pages 87-97Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2019.06.028
Keywords
upwelling; sea ice; CO2; subarctic; Bering Sea; glacial
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- Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) Envision DTP [ENV15362]
- CASE funding from the British Geological Survey [GA/15S/003]
- NERC Isotope Geosciences Facilities Steering Committee grant [IP-1674-1116]
- NERC [bgs05010, NE/H003274/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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High latitude deep water upwelling has the potential to control global climate over glacial timescales through the biological pump and ocean-atmosphere CO2 exchange. However, there is currently a lack of continuous long nutrient upwelling records with which to assess this mechanism. Here we present geochemical proxy records for nutrient upwelling and glacial North Pacific Intermediate Water (GNPIW) formation in the Bering Sea over the past 850 kyr, which demonstrates that glacial periods were characterised by reduced nutrient upwelling, when global atmospheric CO2 and temperature were also lowered. We suggest that glacial expansion of sea ice in the Bering Sea, and the simultaneous expansion of low nutrient GNPIW, inhibited vertical mixing and nutrient supply across the subarctic Pacific Ocean. Our findings lend support to the suggestion that high latitude sea ice and the resultant intermediate water formation, modulated deep water upwelling and ocean-atmosphere CO2 exchange on glacial interglacial timescales. (C) 2019 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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