Tropospheric Ozone During the Last Interglacial

dc.citation.articleNumbere2022GL101113
dc.citation.issueNumber23
dc.citation.journalTitleGeophysical Research Letters
dc.citation.volumeNumber49
dc.contributor.authorYan, Yuzhen
dc.contributor.authorBanerjee, Asmita
dc.contributor.authorMurray, Lee T.
dc.contributor.authorTie, Xin
dc.contributor.authorYeung, Laurence Y.
dc.date.accessioned2023-01-27T14:47:14Z
dc.date.available2023-01-27T14:47:14Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.description.abstractThe history of tropospheric O3, an important atmospheric oxidant, is poorly constrained because of uncertainties in its historical budget and a dearth of independent records. Here, we estimate the mean tropospheric O3 burden during the Last Interglacial period (LIG; 115 to 130 thousand years ago) using a record of the clumped isotopic composition of O2 (i.e., Δ36 values) preserved in Antarctic ice. The measured LIG Δ36 value is 0.03 ± 0.02‰ (95% CI) higher than the late pre-industrial Holocene (PI; 1,590–1,850 CE) value and corresponds to a modeled 9% reduction in LIG tropospheric O3 burden (95% CI: 3%–15%), caused in part by a substantial reduction in biomass burning emissions during the LIG relative to the PI. These results are consistent with the hypothesis that late-Pleistocene megafaunal extinctions caused woody and grassy fuels to accumulate on land, leading to enhanced biomass burning in the preindustrial Holocene.
dc.identifier.citationYan, Yuzhen, Banerjee, Asmita, Murray, Lee T., et al.. "Tropospheric Ozone During the Last Interglacial." <i>Geophysical Research Letters,</i> 49, no. 23 (2022) Wiley: https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL101113.
dc.identifier.digital2022-Yan
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL101113
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/114256
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherWiley
dc.rightsThis is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.titleTropospheric Ozone During the Last Interglacial
dc.typeJournal article
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