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Reading
assignments will be added to this list and uploaded to the coure
OneDrive at
least one week in advance of each class meeting
ALL
assigned
reading is to be completed BEFORE the beginning of
the associated class meeting.
Weekly
Summaries are availble in the course OneDrive "Weekly Summaries"
folder. Please remember to refer to the weekly
summaries rubric page
when preparing your summaries.
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Reading
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1
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08/20
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Introductory Readings (to refresh your knowledge of some of
the basics): Cronin, 1999,
Chapters 1 and 2
(or similar textbook chapters)
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2
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08/27
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SNOWBALL EARTH:
Hoffman,P. F., Kaufman, A. J., Halverson, G. P., and D. P. Schrag, D. P., 1998. A
neoproterozoic
snowball Earth. Science,
v.. 281, pp. 1342-1346.
(Also, Kerr
1998 (comments on the paper); Hoffman, P. F.,
A snowball Earth poster (available in 2 formats); the
snowball Earth website: http://www.snowballearth.org/).
Hoffman,
P.F. and Schrag, D.P., 2002. The snowball Earth hypothesis:
testing the
limits of global change.
Terra Nova, v. 14, p. 129-155.
(Also the short
news piece fron Science -- Snowball or Slushball -- about a related 202
Geology article)
Feulner, G., 2012.
The faint young sun problem.
Reviews of Geophysics and Space Physics, v.
50, RG2006,
doi:10.1029/2011RG000375.
Hyde et al., 2000. Neoproterozoic
‘snowball Earth’ simulations with a coupled climate/ice sheet model.
Nature, v.405, pp.425-429
(Also, Runnegar 2000 (comments on the
paper), the 2002 Snowball Earth News
piece) by Kerr, and the reader letter from the same issue)
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3
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09/03
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LONG-TERM
CRETACEOUS and CENOZOIC CLIMATE EVOLUTION:
Zachos, J., Pagani,
M., Sloan, L., Thomas, and Billups,
K., 2001. Trends, Rhythms, and Aberrations in global Climate 65 Ma to
Present. Science, v. 292, pp. 686-693.
Shevenell, A. E., Kennett, H. P., and
Lea D. W., 2004, Middle Miocene Southern Ocean Cooling and Antarctic Cryosphere Expansion. Science,
v. 305, pp. 1766-1770. OMIT
(Also, the
news related blurb – “Why The Ice?” -- plus an
optional SUPPLEMENT about methods, age model, and
more)
Lisiecki, L.E. and Raymo, M. E.,
2005. A Pliocene-Pleistocene stack of 57 globally distributed
benthic d18O records. Paleoceanography, v. 20, PA1003,
doi:10.1029/2004PA001071.
(You may also find the data from
the LR04 Benthic Stack, at https://lorraine-lisiecki.com/stack.html,
interesting). Also, don'tt miss the correction to figure 7.)
Zachos, C.,
Dickens, G. R., and Zeebe, R. E., 2008.
An early Cenozoic perspective
on greenhouse warming and carbon-cycle dynamics.
Nature, v. 451, pp. 279-283.
(Also,
Dickins, 2008, is a prespectives pieces that is related to this and
other similar papers.)
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4
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09/10
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Monnin,
E., Indermuhle, A., Dellenbach, A., Fluckiger, J., Stauffer, B.,
Stocker, T. F., Raynaud, D., Barnola, J-M,. 2001. Atmospheric
CO2
Concentratins over the Last Glacial Termination. Science, v.
291, pp.
112-114.
Kohfeld,
K. E., La Quere,
C.,
Harrison, S. P., and Anderson, R. F., 2005, role of marine biology in
glacial-interglacial CO2 cycles. Science, v. 308, pp. 74-78.
(Also, the
This Week in Science
blurb – “Marine Biology and Climate” – from page 13 of the same issue.)
McElwain,
J. C., Wade-Murphy, J., and Hesselbo,
S. P., 2005, Changes in carbon dioxide during an oceanic anoxic event
linked to intrusion into Gondwana
coals. Nature,
v.
435, pp. 479-482.
(Also, there are two
supplementary tables that go with thos . These are optional
reads.)
Jickells,
T. D. et al., 2005, Global iron connections between desert dust, ocean
biogeography, and climate. Science,
v. 308, pp. 67-71.
(Also,
there is a short editor's blurb about this piece inthe same
This
Week in Sience document that mentions the Kohfeld paper.)
Schmittner,
A. and Galbraith, E. D., 2008, Glacial greenhouse gas fluctuations
controlled by ocean circulation changes.
Nature, v. 256, pp. 373-376.
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5
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09/17 |
No
Class (Rigsby in Winton, NC)
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| 6 |
09/24 |
No
Class (GSA Week) |
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7
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10/01
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Lambeck,
K., T.M. Esat, E.-K.
Potter, 2002. Links
between climate and sea levels for the past three million years,
Nature, v. 419, p. 199-206.
Peltier, W. R,
and Fairbanks.
R. G.,
2006. Global glacial ice volume and Last Glacial Maximum duration from
an extended Barbados
sea level record. Quaternary Science
Reviews, v. 25, pp. 3322-3337.
Raymo, M. E. and Hubers,
P., 2008, Unlocking the mysteries of the ice ages. Nature, v.
4521, pp 284-285.
Clark, P.U., Dyke, A.S., Shakun,
J.D. and Carlson, A.E., 2009. The
last glacial maximum.
Science, v. 325, pp.710-714.
Also, check out the
Editor's Summary of this paper and the published Online Supporting
Materials
Dutton, A., Carlson, A.
E., Long, A. J., Milne, G. A., Clark, P. U., DeConto, R., and Horton,
B. P., 2015. Sea-level rise due to polar ice-sheet mass loss
during past warm periods. Science, v. 349, pp. 153 (review
summary) and DOI: 10.1126/science.aaa4019 (full text).
Also, check out the
Editor's Summary of the article and the two PAGES articles that
reference this paper (de Boer et al., 2019, and Horton et al, 2019).
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10/08 |
No
Class (Fall Break) |
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9
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10/15
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Petit, J.R., et al.,
1999. Climate
and atmospheric history of the past 420,000 years from the Vostok ice core, Antarctica.
Nature, v. 399, p. 429-436.
Also, see the News
and View feature by Stauffer.
EPICA community members,
2004. Eight glacial
cycles from an Antarctic ice core, Nature, v. 429, p. 623-628.
Also, see the News
Feature "Frozen Time" by Walker and the News and Views article by
McManus.
North Greenland Ice Core
Project members
(NGRIP), 2004.
High-resolution record of Northern Hemisphere
climate extending into the last interglacial period.
Nature, v. 431, p. 147-151.
Also, see the News
and Views article "Into An Ice Age" by Coffey
Rasmussen,
S. O., Seierstad, I. K., Andersen, K. K., Bigler, M, Dahl-Jensen, D.,
Johnsen, S. L., 2008, Synchronization of the NGRIP, GRIP, and GISP2 ice
cores across MIS 2 and paleoclimatic implications, Quaternary Science
Reviews, v. 27, p. 18-28.
Brook, E. J. and Buizert,
C., 2018, Antarctic and global climate history viewed from ice cores:
Nature, v. 558, p. 200-208
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10
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10/22
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Start
with this very short “Perspectives” article that will remind you of
last week’s discussion:
Stocker,
T. F. (1998).
Climate change: the
seesaw effect. Science 282,
61-62.
Then
read these more recent data papers:
Lea,
D.W., Pak, D.K., Peterson, L.C., and Hughen,
K.A., 2003. Synchroneity of tropical and
high-latitude Atlantic temperatures over the last glacial termination. Science, v. 301, p.
1361-1364.
EPICA, 2006,
One-to-one coupling of glacial climate variability in Greenland and Antarctica.
Nature 444, p. 195-198
Also
see the “News and Views” article on this paper: Steig,
E. J., 2006, Climate change: The
north-south connection. Nature, v. 444, p. 195-198.
Barker
S., Diz, P, Vautravers, M. J., Puike, J., Knorr, G., Hall, I. R., Broecker, W. S., 2009, Interhemispheric Atlantic seesaw
response during the last deglacial. Nature, v. 457, p.
1097-1103.
Also see the “News and Views” article on this paper: Severinghaus,
2009, Climate Change: Southern see-saw
seen, Nature 457,
1093-1094.
Markle,
B. R., Steig, E. J., Buizert, C., Schoenemann, S. W., Bitz, C. M.,
Fudge, T. J., Pedro, J. B., Ding, Q., Jones, T. R., White, J. W. C.,
and Sowers, T., 2017, Global atmospheric teleconnections during
Dansgaard-Oeschger events. Nature Geoscience, v. 10. p. 36-40.
Also, see the University of
Rhode Island news release
(https://oceanbites.org/the-bipolar-see-saw-dansgaard-oeschger-events-and-the-antarctic-climate/)
and the News and Views
article that discusses this paper: " Climate's Playground" by Abram.
Uemura,
R., Motoyama, H., Masson-Delmotte, V., Jouzel, J., Kawamura, K.,
Goto-Azuma, K., Futjita, S., Kuramoto, T., Hirabayashi, M., Miyake, T.,
Ohno, H., Futita, K., Abe-Ouchi, A., Iizuka, Y., Horoikawa, S.,
Igarashi, M., Suzuki, K., Suzuki, T., and Fujii, Y., 2018, Asynchrony
between Antarctic temperature and CO2 associated with obliquity over
the past 720,000 years. Nature Communications, 9:961, DOI:
10.1038/s41467-018-03328-3.
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11
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10/29
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Start with some background
on Thermohaline Circulation and AMOC. Read or skim these, as necessary, to get up to
speed on the basics:
Shaffrey, L and Sutton, R., 2006, Bjerknes Compensation and the Decadal
Variability of the Energy Transports in a Coupled Climate Model. Journal of Climate, v. 19, p. 1167-1181.
Check out the except from Trenberth and Caron, 2001 (Estimates of Meridional
Atmosphere and Ocean Heat Transports. Journal of Climate, https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0442(2001)014<3433:EOMAAO>2.0.CO;2) that may help you understand the Shaffrey
and Sutton paper.
Wunsch,
C. 2002, What is thermohaline circulation?
Science, v. 298, p. 1179-1180.
Rahmstorf, S., 2002, Ocean circulation and climate during the past 120,000
years. Nature, v. 419, p. 207-214.
Rahmstorf,
S. 2003, The current climate. Nature, v. 421, p. 699.
Rahmstorf,
S., 2006, Thermohaline Ocean Circulation, IN,
Elias, S. A., (ed.), Encyclopedia of Quaternary Sciences. Elsevier, Amsterdam.
Now,
read these paleoclimate articles: Herbert,
T. D. et al., 2001. Collapse of the
California current during glacial maxima linked to climate change on land.
Science, v. 293. P. 71-76.
Also see Lea, 2001, Ice Ages, the California Current, and Devil’s
Hole. Science, v. 293, p. 59-60 – a
perspectives piece on this article.
Clark,
P. U., Pisias, N., G., Stocker, T. F., and Weaver, A. J., 2002, The role of the
thermohaline circulation in abrupt climate change. Nature, v. 415, p. 863-869.
Partin
et al., 2007, Millennial-scale trends in west Pacific warm pool hydrology since
the Last Glacial Maximum. Nature, v.
449. p. 452-456, 736.
Change,
P. et al. 2008. Oceanic links between
abrupt in the North Atlantic Ocean and the African monsoon. Nature Geoscience, v. 1, p. 445-448.
Barker.
S. and Knorr, G., 2016, A paleo-perspective on the AMOC as a tipping point
element. PAGES Magazine, v. 24, p 14-15. Note: this is a Perspectives-like piece. Read it for context.
Deaney,
E. L., Barker, S., Van de Flierdt, T., 2017, Timing and nature of AMOC recovery
across Termination 2 and magnitude of deglacial CO2 change. Nature Communications, DOI: 10.1038/ncomm14595.
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12
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11/05
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Marine Records: Peterson LC, Haug GH, Hughen KA & Rohl U., 2000. Rapid changes in the hydrologic cycle of the tropical Atlantic during the Last Glacial. Science 290, 1947-1951. (Also, see the Perspectives piece by Labeyrie) Continental Records: OPTIONAL (for all of you continental ice-core lovers!): Thompson, L.G., et al., 1998. A 25,000-year tropical climate history from Bolivian ice cores. Science, v. 282, p. 1858-1864. Lake records Baker P.A. , Seltzer G. O. , Fritz S. C., Dunbar R. B., Grove M. J., Tapia P. M., Cross S. L., Rowe H. D. and Broda J. P., 2001. The history of South American tropical precipitation for the past 25,000 years. Science, v. 291, p. 640-643. Johnson,
T. C., Brown, E. T., McManus, J., Barry, S., Barker, P., and Gasse, F.,
2002. A High-resolution paleoclimae record spanning the past
25,000 years in East Africa. Science, v. 296, p. 113-116. Also, see the related News and View piece by Baker.
Speleothems Wang XL, Auler A.S., Edwards RL, Cheng H, Cristalli PS, Smart PL, Richards DA & Shen C-C., 2004. Wet periods in northeastern Brazil over the past 210 kyr linked to distant climate anomalies. Nature, v. 432, p. 740-743. Also, see the News & Views piece by Chiang and Koutavas.
Wang,
Y., Cheng, H., Edwards, R. L., He, Y., Kong, X., An, Z., Wu, J., Kelly,
M. J., Dykoski, C. A., Li, X., 2005. The Holocene Asian Monsoon:
Links to Solar Change and North Atlantic Climate. SCIENCE,
v. 308, p. 854-857.
ALSO: review the short pieces from PAGES by Wang et al (2008) and Gentry et al (2013).
All together now Schneider,
T. M, Bischoof, T., Haug, G, H., 2014, Migrations and dynamics of
the intertropical convergence zone. Nature, v. 513, p. 43-53.
Strikis,
N. M., Cruz, F. W., Barreto, E. A. S., Naughton, F., Vuille, M., Cheng,
H., Voelker, A. H. L., Zhang, H. Karmann, I., Edwards, R. L., Auler, A.
S., Santos, R. V., Sales, H. R., 2018, South American monsoon
response to iceberg discharge inthe North Atlantic. PNSA, doi
10.1073/pnas.1717784115. |
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11/12
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And, here is the RESPONSIBLE PARTY List:
- For items labeled 001
(including a, b, etc.): Anthony
- For items labeled 002
(including a, b, etc.): Whittney
- For items labeled 003
(including a, b, etc.): Alexis
- For items labeled 004
(including a, b, etc.): Erik
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11/19
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001 and 001a
Shen, S-z et al,
Calibrating the End-Permian Mass Extinction, 2011. Science, v. 334. P.
1367-1372.
Also, the by This Week in Science new piece, Worst… Date… Ever,
by Hurtley
002 and 002a
Schobben, M.,
Ghaderi, A., Korn, D., and Korte, C., 2015, Flourishing ocean drives the
end-Permian marine mass extinction. PNAS, 112 (33) 10298-10303; doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1503755112.
Also, the
physics.org news piece, End-Permian mass extinction may have been driven by
an ocean teeming with life, by Packham.
003 and 003a
Shu-Zhong Shen et
al. A sudden end-Permian mass extinction in South China, GSA Bulletin
(2018). DOI: 10.1130/B31909.1.
Also, the
MIT News Article, An Extinction Without Warning, by Chu.
004 and 004a
Penn, J. L.,
Deutsch, C., Payne, J. L., Sperling, E. A., 2018, Temperature-dependent
hypoxia explains biogeography and severity of end-Permian marine mass
extinction. Science, 362, eaat1327(2018). DOI: 10.1126/science.aat1327
Also, the
Perspectives article. Climate change and
marine mass extinction, by Kump.
And, here is the RESPONSIBLE
PARTY (=Discussion Leader) List:
·
For items labeled 001 (including a, b,
etc.): Casey
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For items labeled 002 (including a, b,
etc.): Trevor
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For items labeled 003 (including a, b,
etc.): Seth
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For items labeled 004 (including a, b,
etc.): Kelli
NOTE to all
Discussion Leaders:
There are many, many other journal articles on this extinction. They are
readily available. I found articles in GSA Bulletin, PNAS, Nature,
Science, Science Advances, Nature Geosciences, Geology, and more. Please
bring additional information from one or more of reasonably recent professional
journal article to your discussion.
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11/26 |
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11/04 |
No
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