Using a maximum simplicity paleoclimate model to simulate millennial variability during the last four glacial periods     

Mark Siddall  Thomas F. Stocker  Thomas Blunier  Renato Spahni  Jerry F. McManus  Edouard Bard 《Quaternary Science Reviews》2006,25(23-24):3185

Many studies have documented the existence of millennial-scale variability in the Earth system during the last glacial period. An increasing number of studies document the occurrence of similar millennial variability during glacial periods previous to the last one. Here we use the simplest possible thermal-bipolar seesaw model to consider this variability for the last four glacial periods. We invert this model and use the high-pass filtered Vostok stable isotope records to make a first, tentative, attempt to estimate high-latitude N. Hemisphere temperature variability over the last four glacial periods, beyond the reach of Greenland ice-core records. The model result is compared against the Vostok methane record, which shows rapid variations in parallel to Greenland temperature records during the last glacial period. A further comparison is carried out against the planktonic oxygen isotope of north Atlantic core ODP 980. There is agreement between the records on the existence of similar millennial-scale variability during the last three glacial periods with very similar characteristics to the variability during the last glacial cycle.  相似文献   

Corrosion of cast iron pipelines buried in Fraser River silt subject to climate-induced moisture variations     

Azoor  Rukshan  Asselin  Edouard  Deo  Ravin  Kodikara  Jayantha  Wijewickreme  Dharma 《Acta Geotechnica》2021,16(3):873-884

Acta Geotechnica - Experiments were carried out to characterise the influence of soil water retention properties on the corrosion of a cast iron specimen buried in Fraser River silt. The corrosion...  相似文献   

Direct barite determination using SEM/EDS-ACC system: implication for constraining barium carriers and barite preservation in marine sediments     

E. Robin  C. Rabouille  G. Martinez  I. Lefevre  J. L. Reyss  P. van Beek  C. Jeandel 《Marine Chemistry》2003,82(3-4):289-306

Barite (BaSO₄) in marine sediments is considered as a proxy of surface ocean productivity and is widely used for paleo-productivity reconstructions. However, direct barite determination is not achieved by currently used methods, which rely on the measurement of total barium by inductively coupled plasma–mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) and instrumental neutron activation analysis (INAA) and correction from the allogenic Ba contribution. We report here on a technique that directly counts individual barite crystals using a scanning electron microscope (SEM) coupled to an energy dispersive spectrometer (EDS) equipped with an automated particle counting and classification (ACC) system. We show that barite–Ba concentrations can be deduced from the abundance, shape and size distributions of barite crystals with current precision and sensitivity as high as ±5 wt.% (2σ confidence limit) and 10 ppm, respectively. This technique, coupled with ICP-MS and INAA techniques for total Ba measurements, was applied to sediment samples from the tropical North Atlantic and the Central North Pacific oceans. Results show that: (1) barite and detrital aluminosilicates are the two main carriers of Ba in the investigated sediments; (2) calculated Ba/Al ratios range from 0.005 to 0.008 with an average value around 0.0066, in close agreement with previously reported values; (3) barite might not be the major source for released barium out of sediments and we suggest instead adsorbed barium as a potential source.  相似文献   

Introduction     

Michael Dagg  Minhan Dai  Paul Harrison  Christophe Rabouille 《Continental Shelf Research》2008

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Use of voltammetric solid-state (micro)electrodes for studying biogeochemical processes: Laboratory measurements to real time measurements with an in situ electrochemical analyzer (ISEA)     

George W. Luther III  Brian T. Glazer  Shufen Ma  Robert E. Trouwborst  Tommy S. Moore  Edouard Metzger  Chareonkwan Kraiya  Tim J. Waite  Gregory Druschel  Bjrn Sundby  Martial Taillefert  Donald B. Nuzzio  Timothy M. Shank  Brent L. Lewis  Paul J. Brendel 《Marine Chemistry》2008,108(3-4):221-235

Solid-state voltammetric (micro)electrodes have been used in a variety of environments to study biogeochemical processes. Here we show the wealth of information that has been obtained in the study of sediments, microbial mats, cultures and the water column including hydrothermal vents. Voltammetric analyzers have been developed to function with operator guidance and in unattended mode for temporal studies with an in situ electrochemical analyzer (ISEA). The electrodes can detect the presence (or absence) of a host of redox species and trace metals simultaneously. The multi-species capacity of the voltammetric electrode can be used to examine complex heterogeneous environments such as the root zone of salt marsh sediments. The data obtained with these systems clearly show that O₂ and Mn²⁺ profiles in marine sedimentary porewaters and in microbial biofilms on metal surfaces rarely overlap indicating that O₂ is not a direct oxidant for Mn²⁺. This lack of overlap was suggested originally by Joris Gieskes' group. In waters emanating from hydrothermal vents, Fe²⁺, H₂S and soluble molecular FeS clusters (FeS_aq) are detected indicating that the reactants for the pyrite formation reaction are H₂S and soluble molecular FeS clusters. Using the ISEA with electrodes at fixed positions, data collected continuously over three days near a Riftia pachyptila tubeworm field generally show that O₂ and H₂S anti-correlate and that H₂S and temperature generally correlate. Unlike sedimentary environments, the data clearly show that Riftia live in areas where both O₂ and H₂S co-exist so that its endosymbiont bacteria can perform chemosynthesis. However, physical mixing of diffuse flow vent waters with oceanic bottom waters above or to the side of the tubeworm field can dampen these correlations or even reverse them. Voltammetry is a powerful technique because it provides chemical speciation data (e.g.; oxidation state and different elemental compounds/ions) as well as quantitative data. Because (micro)organisms occupy environmental niches due to the system's chemistry, it is necessary to know chemical speciation. Voltammetric methods allow us to study how chemistry drives biology and how biology can affect chemistry for its own benefit.  相似文献   

Numerical Treatment of Radiative Transfer     

Matthias González  Edouard Audit 《Astrophysics and Space Science》2005,298(1-2):357-362

We present a numerical treatment of radiative transfer in three dimensions. The radiation is modeled by the grey moment M ₁ system. The introduced scheme is able to compute accurate numerical solutions over a broad class of regimes from the transport to the diffusive limit. We discuss numerical issues concerning the resolution and the parallelization of this scheme for multi-dimensional simulations. Several numerical results are then presented, which show that this approach is robust and have the correct behavior in both the diffusive and free-streaming limits. We also present a comparison in two dimensions of our code with a Monte-Carlo transfer code.  相似文献   

Spatial and Temporal Variability of Sediment Organic Matter Recycling in Two Temperate Eutrophicated Estuaries     

Karima Khalil  Mélanie Raimonet  Anniet M. Laverman  Chen Yan  Françoise Andrieux-Loyer  Eric Viollier  Bruno Deflandre  Olivier Ragueneau  Christophe Rabouille 《Aquatic Geochemistry》2013,19(5-6):517-542

This paper deals with the spatial and seasonal recycling of organic matter in sediments of two temperate small estuaries (Elorn and Aulne, France). The spatio-temporal distribution of oxygen, nutrient and metal concentrations as well as the organic carbon and nitrogen contents in surficial sediments were determined and diffusive oxygen fluxes were calculated. In order to assess the source of organic carbon (OC) in the two estuaries, the isotopic composition of carbon (δ ¹³C) was also measured. The temporal variation of organic matter recycling was studied during four seasons in order to understand the driving forces of sediment mineralization and storage in these temperate estuaries. Low spatial variability of vertical profiles of oxygen, nutrient, and metal concentrations and diffusive oxygen fluxes were monitored at the station scale (within meters of the exact location) and cross-section scale. We observed diffusive oxygen fluxes around 15 mmol m^?2 day^?1 in the Elorn estuary and 10 mmol m^?2 day^?1 in the Aulne estuary. The outer (marine) stations of the two estuaries displayed similar diffusive O₂ fluxes. Suboxic and anoxic mineralization was large in the sediments from the two estuaries as shown by the rapid removal of very high bottom water concentrations of NO _x ^? (>200 μM) and the large NH₄ ⁺ increase at depth at all stations. OC contents and C/N ratios were high in upstream sediments (11–15 % d.w. and 4–6, respectively) and decreased downstream to values around 2 % d.w. and C/N ≤ 10. δ ¹³C values show that the organic matter has different origins in the two watersheds as exemplified by lower δ ¹³C values in the Aulne watershed. A high increase of δ ¹³C and C/N values was visible in the two estuaries from upstream to downstream indicating a progressive mixing of terrestrial with marine organic matter. The Elorn estuary is influenced by human activities in its watershed (urban area, animal farming) which suggest the input of labile organic matter, whereas the Aulne estuary displays larger river primary production which can be either mineralized in the water column or transferred to the lower estuary, thus leaving a lower mineralization in Aulne than Elorn estuary. This study highlights that (1) meter scale heterogeneity of benthic biogeochemical properties can be low in small and linear macrotidal estuaries, (2) two estuaries that are geographically close can show different pattern of organic matter origin and recycling related to human activities on watersheds, (3) small estuaries can have an important role in recycling and retention of organic matter.  相似文献   

Tropical sea-surface temperatures during the last glacial period: a view based on alkenones in Indian Ocean sediments     

Corinne Sonzogni  Edouard Bard  Frauke Rostek 《Quaternary Science Reviews》1998,17(12):1185-1201

The qualitification of tropical temperatures during the last glacial cycle (0-150 kyr BP) is a controversial issue since different proxies seem to provide conflicting informations. To obtain a complementary point of view, we use the alkenone method to estimate sea-surface temperatures and focus our work on deep-sea sediments recovered from the tropical Indian Ocean. We present alkenone data obtained in two cores which cover in detail the last deglaciation and in about twenty cores distributed between 20°S and 20°N that were chosen to evaluate the temperature contrast of the last glacial-interglacial transition. Our results indicate that Indian Ocean tropical temperatures remained an average within 1.5-2.5°C of their present values during the last glaciation. At 10°N the last deglaciation is characterized by two warming steps which is similar to the classical deglacial chronology observed in the North Atlantic area. At 20°S the deglacial warming occurred at ca. 15 cal kyr BP, lagging significantly (5-4 kyr) behind the Antarctic warming, but in phase with northern hemisphere time series.  相似文献   

Terrigenous input response to glacial/interglacial climatic variations over southern Baja California: a rock magnetic approach     

Ccile L. Blanchet  Nicolas Thouveny  Laurence Vidal  Guillaume Leduc  Kazuyo Tachikawa  Edouard Bard  Luc Beaufort 《Quaternary Science Reviews》2007,26(25-28):3118-3133

The sediments deposited off south-western Baja California have recorded millennial-scale fluctuations in biogenic compounds and trace metals accumulation during the last glacial period [Ortiz, J.D., O’Connell, S.B., DelViscio, J., Dean, W.E., Carriquiry, J.D., Marchitto, T., Zheng, Y., van Geen, A., 2004. Enhanced marine productivity off western North America during warm climate intervals of the past 52 ky. Geology 32, 521–524; Dean, W.E., Zheng, Y., Ortiz, J.D., van Geen, A., 2006. Sediment Cd and Mo accumulation in the oxygen-minimum zone off western Baja California linked to global climate over the past 52 ka. Paleoceanography 21, PA4209]. Since the variations in trace metals concentration appear to result from dilution with nonbiogenic matter, the variability of the terrigenous sedimentation needs to be addressed. Therefore, we performed rock magnetic and geochemical analysis on a 38 m-long sediment core collected from the slope off Baja California. The temporal framework provided by ¹⁴C dating and identification of palaeoclimatic transitions allows assigning the sequence to the last glacial–interglacial cycle (last 120 ka). The comparison of magnetic and geochemical properties led to retain the hypothesis of a primary modulation of iron oxides quantity and quality by terrigenous input variations, with a secondary diagenetic amplification. Two magnetic mineral input regimes are distinguished: (i) magnetic susceptibility variations reveal changes in titano-magnetite concentration related to fluvial transport of the terrigenous fraction; (ii) coercivity changes allow detecting variations of hematite or goethite concentrations, minerals generally issued from aeolian deflation of weathered rock surfaces. These two regimes are paced by two distinct climatic forcing: the millennial-scale changes in titano-magnetite input are related to the northern hemisphere climatic variability whilst the record of wind-blown magnetic mineral input contains its major power in the precessional frequency band, with higher input during low insolation periods (and conversely). This record highlights the great sensibility of this region to high and low latitudes climatic regimes.  相似文献   

Comment on “Are there connections between the Earth's magnetic field and climate?” by V. Courtillot,Y. Gallet,J.-L. Le Mouël,F. Fluteau,A. Genevey EPSL 253, 328, 2007     

Edouard Bard  Gilles Delaygue 《Earth and Planetary Science Letters》2008,265(1-2):302-307

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