Overview
- 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
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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?
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Book Title: Radiocarbon and Climate Change
Book Subtitle: Mechanisms, Applications and Laboratory Techniques
Editors: Edward A.G. Schuur, Ellen Druffel, Susan E. Trumbore
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25643-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-25641-2Published: 27 May 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-79820-2Published: 26 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-25643-6Published: 17 May 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 315
Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations, 127 illustrations in colour
Topics: Geochemistry, Climatology, Atmospheric Sciences, Ecology