Part II Climate Course (Option 4): Forcings and Feedbacks of Earth's Climate System

Lent Term 2010

David Hodell - Climate change on orbital and suborbital time scales: forcings and feedbacks

Lectures 1-5 Reading List

General Textbook:

Ruddiman, W.F., 2001. Earth's climate: past and future. W.H. Freeman and company, ISBN 0-7167-3741-8 (pbk.), 465 pp.+ xxi.

Earth's Energy Budget

IPCC AR4 (2007). Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 2007. Solomon, S., D. Qin, M. Manning, Z. Chen, M. Marquis, K.B. Averyt, M. Tignor and H.L. Miller (eds.), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY, USA.
Peixoto, J. and Oort, A.H., 1992. Physics of Climate, Chapter 6, AIP, ISBN 0-88318-711-6, 520pp.
Trenberth, K., Fasullo, J., Kiehl, J. (2009). Earth's global energy budget. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. March 2009, 311-323.

Oxygen Isotope Stratigraphy

Lisiecki, L. E., and M. E. Raymo, 2005. A Pliocene-Pleistocene stack of 57 globally distributed benthic δ18O records, Paleoceanography, 20, PA1003, doi:10.1029/2004PA001071.
Rohling, E.J. (2006) Oxygen isotope composition of seawater. In, Elias, S.A. (ed.) Encyclopedia of Quaternary Science (Vol. 3)., Elsevier, 1748-1756.
Sharp, Z., 2007. Principles of stable isotope geochemistry, Pearson Prentice Hall, New Jersey, 344pp. ISBN 0-13-009139-1.
Zachos, J. C., Pagani, M., Sloan, L., Thomas, E., and Billups, K., 2001, Trends, rythyms, and aberrations in global climate 65 Ma to Present. Science, v. 292, p.686.

Milankovitch Theory of the Ice Ages

Berger, A., Milankovitch theory and climate, Rev. Geophys., 26, 624-657, 1988. Hays, J.D., Imbrie, J., and Shackleton, N.J., 1976. Variations in the Earth's Orbit: Pacemaker of the Ice Ages, Science, 194, no. 4270, 1121-1132.
Imbrie, J., and J. Z. Imbrie, 1980. Modeling the climatic response to orbital variations, Science, 207, 943-953.
Imbrie, J. and Imbrie, K.P., 1979. Ice Ages: Solving the Mystery. Harvard University Press, ISBN: 0-674-44075-7.
Paillard, D. (2001), Glacial cycles: Toward a new paradigm, Rev. Geophys., 39, 325 -346.

For an alternative view, see:

Wunsch, C., 2004, Quantitative estimate of the Milankovitch-forced contribution to observed Quaternary climate change Quaternary Science Reviews 23, 1001-1012

Onset of Northern Hemisphere Glaciation

Bartoli, G., Sarnthein, M., Weinelt, M., Erlenkeuser, H., Garbe-Schönberg, D. and Lea, D., 2005. Final closure of Panama and the onset of northern hemisphere glaciation. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 237: 33-44
Driscoll, N.W. and Haug, G.H., 1998. A short circuit in thermohaline circulation: A cause for Northern Hemisphere Glaciation? Science, 282: 436-438.
Haug, G.H. and Tiedemann, R., 1998. Effect of the formation of the Isthmus of Panama on Atlantic Ocean thermohaline circulation. Nature, 393: 673-676.
Haug, G.H., Ganopolski, A., Sigman, D.M., Rosell-Mele, A., Swann, G.E.A., Tiedemann, R., Jaccard, S.L., Bollmann, J., Maslin, M.A., Leng, M.J. and Eglinton, G., 2005. North Pacific seasonality and the glaciation of North America 2.7 million years ago. Nature, 433: 821-825.
Hodell, D. A., and K. A. Venz-Curtis (2006), Late Neogene history of deepwater ventilation in the Southern Ocean, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 7, Q09001,
Jansen, E., Fronval, T., Ranck, F. and Channell, J.E.T., 2000. Pliocene-Pleistocene ice rafting history and cyclicity in the Nordic Seas during the last 3.5 Myr. Paleoceanography, 15(6): 709-721.
Klocker, A., Prange, M. and Schulz, M., 2005. Testing the influence of the Central American Seaway on orbitally forced northern hemisphere glaciation. Geophys. Res. Lett., 32: L03703.
Lunt, D.J., Foster, G.L., Haywood, A.M., and Stone, E.J., 2008. Late Pliocene Greenland glaciation controlled by a decline in atmospheric CO2 levels. Nature 454, 1102-1105.
Raymo, M.E., 1994, The initiation of Northern Hemisphere glaciation. (this is available on line though the link may cease to work after a while - nothing we can do, sorry) Annual Reviews of Earth and Planetary Science, v. 22, p. 353-383.

Middle Pleistocene Transition

Berger, W. H., and E. Jansen (1994), Mid-Pleistocene climate shift - the Nansen connection, in The Polar Oceans and Their Role in Shaping the Global Environment, Geophys. Monogr. Ser., vol. 84, edited by O. M. Johannessen, R. D. Muench, J. E. Overalnd, pp. 295-311, AGU, Washington, D.C.
Clark, P.U., and D. Pollard, (1998), Origin of the middle Pleistocene transition by ice sheet erosion of regolith, Paleoceanography. 13, 1-9.
Clark, P. U., D. Archer, D. Pollard, J. D. Blum, J. A. Rial, V. Brovkin, A. C Mix, N. G. Pisias, and M. Roy (2006), The middle Pleistocene transition: characteristics, mechanisms, and implications for long-term changes in atmospheric CO2, Quat. Sci. Rev, 25, 3150-3184.
Hodell, D. A., J. E. T. Channell, J. H. Curtis, O. E. Romero, and U. Roehl (2008), Onset of ‘‘Hudson Strait'' Heinrich events in the eastern North Atlantic at th end of the middle Pleistocene transition (~640 ka)?, Paleoceanography, 23, PA4218,
Huybers, (2007) Glacial variability over the last 2Ma: an extended depth-derived agemodel, continuous obliquity pacing, and the Pleistocene progression, Quaternary Science Reviews, 26, 37-55, .
Huybers (2006), Early Pleistocene glacial cycles and the integrated summer insolation forcing, Science, 313, 508-511.
Mudelsee, M., and M. Schulz (1997), The Mid-Pleistocene climate transition: onset of 100 ka cycle lags ice volume buildup by 280 ka, Earth Planet. Sci. Letts., 151, 117-123.
Raymo, M.E. and K.H. Nisancioglu, (2003), The 41 Kyr world: Milankovitch's other unsolved mystery, Paleoceanography, v. 18
Raymo, M. E. and P. Huybers, (2008), Unlocking the mysteries of the Ice Ages, Nature, v. 451, p. 284-285.
Raymo, M. E., L. Lisiecki, and K. Nisancioglu, 2006, Plio-Pleistocene ice volume, Antarctic climate, and the global δ18O record, Science, v. 313, p. 492, doi:

Alex Piotrowski - The link between past ocean circulation and climate changes

Lectures 6 - 10

Broecker, W. S. (1994) Massive iceberg discharges as triggers for global climate change, Nature 372, 421 - 424
Broecker, W. S. Dorothy M. Peteet, David Rind (1985) Does the ocean-atmosphere system have more than one stable mode of operation? Nature, 315, 21-26
Andrey Ganopolski and Stefan Rahmstorf (2001), Rapid changes of glacial climate simulated in a coupled climate model, Nature, 409, 159
Hemming, S.R., (2003) Heinrich events: Massive late Pleistocene detritus layers of the North Atlantic and their global climate imprint, reviews in geophycs, 45

Sasha Turchyn - Geological and Geochemical reconstructions/interpretations of major paleoclimatic events in Earth History

Lectures 11 - 16

Lecture 11

Beerling, D. J., D. L. Royer (2002), Reading a CO² signal from fossil stomata, New Phytologist, 153, 387-397
T. E. Cerling, J. R. Ehleringer, J. M. Harris, & D. J. Beerling, (1998) Carbon Dioxide Starvation, the Development of C4 Ecosystems, and Mammalian Evolution [and Discussion], Philosophical Transactions: Biological Sciences, 353, 159-171
Mark Pagani (2002), The Alkenone-CO2 Proxy and Ancient Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide, Philosophical Transactions: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences,360, 609-632
Pearson, Paul N. & Martin R. Palmer (2000), Atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations over the past 60 million years, Nature, 406, 695-699
Royer, D. L., Berner, R. J., & D. J. Beerling (2001), Phanerozoic atmospheric CO2 change: evaluating geochemical and paleobiological approaches Earth-Science Reviews, 54, 349-392
Royer, D. L. (2006) CO2-forced climate thresholds during the Phanerozoic, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 70, 5665-5675

Lecture 12

Dickens, G. R., J. R. O'Neil, D. K. Rea, and R. M. Owen (1995), Dissociation of oceanic methane hydrate as a cause of the carbon isotope excursion at the end of the Paleocene, Paleoceanography, 10(6), 965-971
Svensen, Henrik, Planke, Sverre, Malthe-Sorenssen, Anders, Jamtveit, Bjorn, Myklebust, Reidun, Rasmussen Eidem, Torfinn, Rey, Sebastian S., (2004), Release of methane from a volcanic basin as a mechanism for initial Eocene global warming, Nature, 429, 542 - 545
Zachos, J. C., Nicholas J. Shackleton, Justin S. Revenaugh, Heiko Pälike, and Benjamin P. Flower (2001), Trends , Rhythms, and Aberrations in Global Climate 65 Ma to Present, Science, 292, 686 - 693
Kennett and Stott, (1991), Abrupt deep-sea warming, palaeoceanographic changes and benthic extinctions at the end of the Palaeocene Nature, 353, 225-229
Zeebe, Richard E. , James C. Zachos, Ken Caldeira, and Toby Tyrrell (2008) OCEANS: Carbon Emissions and Acidification, Science 321 (5885), 51
Bains, Santo, Richard M. Corfield, Richard D. Norris (1999), Mechanisms of Climate Warming at the End of the Paleocene, Science, 285, 724 - 727
Zachos, J. C., Ursula Röhl, Stephen A. Schellenberg, Appy Sluijs, David A. Hodell, Daniel C. Kelly, Ellen Thomas, Micah Nicolo, Isabella Raffi, Lucas J. Lourens, Heather McCarren, and Dick Kroon (2005), Rapid Acidification of the Ocean During the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, Science, 308, 1611-1615

Lecture 13

Lecture 14

Payne, J. l., Daniel J. Lehrmann,Jiayong Wei, Daniel P. Schrag, Andrew H. Knoll (2004), Large Perturbations of the Carbon Cycle During Recovery from the End-Permian Extinction, Science, 305, 506 - 509
Wignall, P. B. and Twitchett, R. J. 1996, Oceanic Anoxia and the End Permian Mass Extinction, Science, 272, 1155 - 1158
Kump, L. R., Pavlov, A. and Arthur, M. A. (2006) Massive release of hydrogen sulfide to the surface ocean and atmosphere during intervals of oceanic anoxia Geology 33, 397-400
Cao Changqun, Gordon D. Love, Lindsay E. Hays, Wei Wang, Shuzhong Shen, Roger E. Summons.(2009), Biogeochemical evidence for euxinic oceans and ecological disturbance presaging the end-Permian mass extinction event, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 281, 188-201
R.J Newton, R. J., E.L Pevitt, P.B Wignall, S.H Bottrell (2004), Large shifts in the isotopic composition of seawater sulphate across the Permo–Triassic boundary in northern Italy. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 218, 331-345

Lecture 15

Hoffman, P.F., Kaufman, A.J., Halverson, G.P. & Schrag, D.P., (1998) A Neoproterozoic snowball Earth Science, 281, 1342-46
Evans, D.A.D., (2000) Stratigraphic, geochronological, and paleomagnetic constraints upon the Neoproterozoic climatic paradox, American Journal of Science, 300, 347-433
Hoffman, P.F. & Schrag, D.P., (2000) Snowball Earth. Scientific American 282, 68-75
Schrag, D.P., Berner, R.A., Hoffman, P.F. & Halverson, G.P. (2002), On the initiation of a snowball Earth, Geophysics, Geochemistry, Geosystems 3, on-line 10.1029/2001GC000219
Poulsen, C.J., Jacob, R.L., Pierrehumbert, R.T. & Huynh, T.T., (2002) Testing paleogeographic controls on a Neoproterozoic snowball Earth, Geophysical Research Letters, 29

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