Radiocarbon and Climate Change
Mechanisms, Applications and Laboratory Techniques
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Beschreibung
This book is a useful guide for researchers in ecology and earth science interested in the use of accelerator mass spectrometry technology. The development of research in radiocarbon measurements offers an opportunity to address the human impact on global carbon cycling and climate change. Presenting radiocarbon theory, history, applications, and analytical techniques in one volume builds a broad outline of the field of radiocarbon and its emergent role in defining changes in the global carbon cycle and links to climate change.
Each chapter presents both classic and cutting-edge studies from different disciplines involving radiocarbon and carbon cycling. The book also includes a chapter on the history and discovery of radiocarbon, and advances in radiocarbon measurement techniques and radiocarbon theory. Understanding human alteration of the global carbon cycle and the link between atmospheric carbon dioxide levels and climate remains one of the foremost environmental problemsat the interface of ecology and earth system science. Many people are familiar with the terms ‘global warming’ and ‘climate change’, but fewer are able to articulate the science that support these hypotheses. This book addresses general questions such as: what is the link between the carbon cycle and climate change; what is the current evidence for the fate of carbon dioxide added by human activities to the atmosphere, and what has caused past changes in atmospheric carbon dioxide? How can the radiocarbon and stable isotopes of carbon combined with other tools be used for quantifying the human impact on the global carbon cycle?
Presents an overview of the global carbon cycle and the links to climate change using current and past changes in the Earth system as an organizing principle
Details the theory and measurement of radiocarbon, an isotope which exists as a unique tracer of carbon age, carbon sources, and rates of carbon cycling within ecosystems and the Earth system
Provides an overview of applications of radiocarbon measurements organized around the major Earth system components: Air, Land, Water, as well as the paleohistory of these systems
Summarizes laboratory techniques regarding sample collection, pretreatment, and radiocarbon measurement
Presents an overview of the global carbon cycle and the links to climate change using current and past changes in the Earth system as an organizing principle Details the theory and measurement of radiocarbon, an isotope which exists as a unique tracer of carbon age, carbon sources, and rates of carbon cycling within ecosystems and the Earth system Provides an overview of applications of radiocarbon measurements organized around the major Earth system components: Air, Land, Water, as well as the paleohistory of these systems Summarizes laboratory techniques regarding sample collection, pretreatment, and radiocarbon measurement Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Autor*in
Edward A.G. Schuur
Themen in »Radiocarbon and Climate Change«
Global Carbon Cycle Radiocarbon Radiocarbon Technology Radiocarbon and Atmosphere Radiocarbon and Ocean Wild Bill Libby Radiocarbon dating Ecosystems Isotopes Terrestrial Microbes Soil Sediment Biosphere Biome