| Autor: |
Eglinton TI; Department of Earth Sciences, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland., Graven HD; Department of Physics, Imperial College London, London, UK., Raymond PA; School of the Environment, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA., Trumbore SE; Department of Biogeochemical Processes, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany., Aluwihare L; Geosciences Research Division, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA., Bard E; CEREGE, Aix-Marseille University, CNRS, IRD, INRAE, Collège de France, Aix-en-Provence, France., Basu S; Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA.; Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA., Friedlingstein P; College of Engineering, Mathematics, and Physical Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK., Hammer S; Institut für Umweltphysik, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany., Lester J; Department of Physics, Imperial College London, London, UK., Sanderman J; Woodwell Climate Research Center, Falmouth, MA, USA., Schuur EAG; Center for Ecosystem Science and Society, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, USA., Sierra CA; Department of Biogeochemical Processes, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany., Synal HA; Department of Physics, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland., Turnbull JC; Rafter Radiocarbon Laboratory, GNS Science, Lower Hutt, New Zealand.; CIRES, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA., Wacker L; Department of Physics, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland. |
| Abstrakt: |
Radiocarbon ( 14 C) is a critical tool for understanding the global carbon cycle. During the Anthropocene, two new processes influenced 14 C in atmospheric, land and ocean carbon reservoirs. First, 14 C-free carbon derived from fossil fuel burning has diluted 14 C, at rates that have accelerated with time. Second, 'bomb' 14 C produced by atmospheric nuclear weapon tests in the mid-twentieth century provided a global isotope tracer that is used to constrain rates of air-sea gas exchange, carbon turnover, large-scale atmospheric and ocean transport, and other key C cycle processes. As we write, the 14 C/ 12 C ratio of atmospheric CO 2 is dropping below pre-industrial levels, and the rate of decline in the future will depend on global fossil fuel use and net exchange of bomb 14 C between the atmosphere, ocean and land. This milestone coincides with a rapid increase in 14 C measurement capacity worldwide. Leveraging future 14 C measurements to understand processes and test models requires coordinated international effort-a 'decade of radiocarbon' with multiple goals: (i) filling observational gaps using archives, (ii) building and sustaining observation networks to increase measurement density across carbon reservoirs, (iii) developing databases, synthesis and modelling tools and (iv) establishing metrics for identifying and verifying changes in carbon sources and sinks. This article is part of the Theo Murphy meeting issue 'Radiocarbon in the Anthropocene'. |
