The magnitude of surface ocean acidification and carbon release during Eocene Thermal Maximum 2 (ETM‐2) and the Paleocene‐Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM)

DT Harper, B Hönisch, RE Zeebe… - Paleoceanography …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
sea surface acidification of −0.20 +0.12/−0.13 pH units. Using these estimates of pH and
temperature as constraints on carbon cycle … reduced warming, we would expect a carbon cycle

The seawater carbon inventory at the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum

LL Haynes, B Hönisch - Proceedings of the National …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
warming, ocean acidification, and changes to ocean circulation (1–4). It has been suggested
… the PETM carbon release was a response to internal carbon-cycle instabilities in a warmer

Surface ocean warming and acidification driven by rapid carbon release precedes Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum

TL Babila, DE Penman, CD Standish, M Doubrawa… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
… We use these geochemical records along with a numerical carbon cycle model, LOSCAR (…
ocean pH coupled with surface warming and associated with a CIE (POE) indicative of carbon

Bentho‐pelagic decoupling: The marine biological carbon pump during Eocene hyperthermals

EM Griffith, E Thomas, AR Lewis… - Paleoceanography …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
oceanic carbon cycle to ongoing global warming is predicting how much organic carbon is
sequestered in the deep ocean … We present evidence from the deep-sea sedimentary record …

[HTML][HTML] Accelerated light carbon sequestration following late Paleocene-early Eocene carbon cycle perturbations

VA Piedrahita, X Zhao, AP Roberts, EJ Rohling… - Earth and Planetary …, 2023 - Elsevier
… releases into the climate system produce global warming and ocean acidification … Eocene
(LPEE) carbon cycle perturbations (∼56-52 Ma) of different amplitudes to constrain carbon

Revisiting the Middle Eocene Climatic Optimum “Carbon Cycle Conundrum” With New Estimates of Atmospheric pCO2 From Boron Isotopes

MJ Henehan, KM Edgar, GL Foster… - Paleoceanography …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
… Reconciling this small a magnitude of pCO 2 change with warming of ~3 C, we suggest,
would require one (or a combination of) (a) very high climate sensitivity to CO 2 in the middle …

Eocene carbonate accumulation in the north-central Pacific Ocean: new insights from Ocean Drilling Program Site 1209, Shatsky Rise

J Bhattacharya, GR Dickens - Sedimentary geology, 2020 - Elsevier
… -term warmth (multi-million-year time scale) of the Early Eocene Climate Optimum (… -sea
carbonate dissolution and carbon cycling process during the dynamic climate regime of Eocene. …

Middle to Late Eocene changes of the ocean carbonate cycle

C Borrelli, ME Katz… - Paleoceanography and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
carbon cycle because these processes affect ocean alkalinity, the dissolved inorganic carbon
(… At this time, the hot spot hypothesis is speculative because the records included in this …

Early Eocene vigorous ocean overturning and its contribution to a warm Southern Ocean

Y Zhang, T Huck, C Lique, Y Donnadieu… - Climate of the …, 2020 - cp.copernicus.org
warm early Eocene climate, in particular in the much warmer high latitudes. Based on the
analysis of early Eocene … sets the Eocene ocean circulation and the importance of the ocean

Strong Coupling Between Carbon Cycle, Climate, and Weathering During the Paleocene‐Eocene Thermal Maximum

Z Chen, Z Ding, S Yang, J Sun, M Zhu… - Geophysical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
… Increased weathering during the PETM has important impacts on carbon cycle. Enhanced
silicate weathering directly leads to a net drawdown of atmospheric CO 2 by supplying cations …