Papers of Wally Broecker

A list of climate related papers where Wally Broecker (1931-2019) is the first author:

1957

Lamont Natural Radiocarbon Measurements IV https://www.jstor.org/stable/1752751

1958

The relation of deep sea sedimentation rates to variations in climate http://www.ajsonline.org/content/256/7/503.extract

Radiocarbon chronology of Lake Lahontan and Lake Bonneville https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/gsabulletin/article-abstract/69/8/1009/5015

1959

Re-evaluation of the salt chronology of several Great Basin Lakes https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/gsabulletin/article-abstract/70/5/601/5108

Lamont Radiocarbon Measurements VI https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/radiocarbon/article/lamont-radiocarbon-measurements-vi/EE4DAF2397F34D5D7C1AEEE88CE750C1

1960

Evidence for an abrupt change in climate close to 11,000 years ago http://www.ajsonline.org/content/258/6/429.short

Natural radiocarbon in the Atlantic Ocean https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/JZ065i009p02903

1965

Uranium-Series Dating of Corals and Oolites from Bahaman and Florida Key Limestones http://science.sciencemag.org/content/149/3679/58

Radiocarbon Chronology of Lake Lahontan and Lake Bonneville II, Great Basin https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/gsabulletin/article-abstract/76/5/537/5914

1968

Milankovitch Hypothesis Supported by Precise Dating of Coral Reefs and Deep-Sea Sediments http://science.sciencemag.org/content/159/3812/297

In Defense of the Astronomical Theory of Glaciation https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-935704-38-6_14

1970

Insolation changes, ice volumes, and the O18 record in deep‐sea cores https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/RG008i001p00169

1975

Climatic Change: Are We on the Brink of a Pronounced Global Warming? http://science.sciencemag.org/content/189/4201/460

1980

Modeling the Carbon System https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/radiocarbon/article/modeling-the-carbon-system/5379951AF625C8A15696E4E52DE79BD6

1981

Glacial to Interglacial Changes in Ocean and Atmosphere Chemistry https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-009-8514-8_5

1982

Ocean chemistry during glacial time https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0016703782901107

1984

Terminations https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-017-4841-4_14

Is There A Tie Between Atmospheric CO2 Content and Ocean Circulation? https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/annals-of-glaciology/article/is-there-a-tie-between-atmospheric-co2-content-and-ocean-circulation-abstract/4C4FE09E12D93C25A2003F1F3BE16EE3

Radiocarbon measurements on coexisting benthic and planktic foraminifera shells: potential for reconstructing ocean ventilation times over the past 20 000 years https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0168583X8490538X

1985

Does the ocean–atmosphere system have more than one stable mode of operation? https://www.nature.com/articles/315021a0

Sources and flow patterns of deep‐ocean waters as deduced from potential temperature, salinity, and initial phosphate concentration https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/JC090iC04p06925

1986

Carbon Cycle: 1985 Glacial to Interglacial Changes in the Operation of the Global Carbon Cycle https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/radiocarbon/article/carbon-cycle-1985-glacial-to-interglacial-changes-in-the-operation-of-the-global-carbon-cycle/453E35DB3657CEF83F8B9E247287FF38

Hydrography, chemistry, and radioisotopes in the Southeast Asian basins https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/JC091iC12p14345

1987

Unpleasant surprises in the greenhouse? https://www.nature.com/articles/328123a0

1988

New evidence from the South China Sea for an abrupt termination of the last glacial period https://www.nature.com/articles/333156a0

Can the Greenland Climatic Jumps be Identified in Records from Ocean and Land? https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/quaternary-research/article/can-the-greenland-climatic-jumps-be-identified-in-records-from-ocean-and-land/3717F76BA966C1A7E4B51E96891F6033

The chronology of the last Deglaciation: Implications to the cause of the Younger Dryas Event https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/PA003i001p00001

1989

The role of ocean-atmosphere reorganizations in glacial cycles https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0016703789901233

The salinity contrast between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans during glacial time https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/PA004i002p00207

Some thoughts about the radiocarbon budget for the glacial Atlantic https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1029/PA004i002p00213

1990

The role of ocean-atmosphere reorganizations in glacial cycles https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0277379190900267

The magnitude of global fresh-water transports of importance to ocean circulation https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00208902

The magnitude of global fresh-water transports of importance to ocean circulation https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00208902

A salt oscillator in the glacial Atlantic? 1. The concept https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/PA005i004p00469

The distribution of radiocarbon in the glacial ocean https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/GB004i001p00103

Salinity history of the northern Atlantic during the last deglaciation https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1029/PA005i004p00459

1991

The Great Ocean Conveyor https://www.jstor.org/stable/43924572

Keeping global change honest https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/91GB01421

The Influence of CaCO3 Dissolution on Core Top Radiocarbon Ages for Deep‐Sea Sediments https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/91PA01768

Radiocarbon age of waters in the deep Atlantic revisited https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/90GL02707

1992

Origin of the northern Atlantic’s Heinrich events https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00193540

The influence of air and sea exchange on the carbon isotope distribution in the sea https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/92GB01672

Defining the Boundaries of the Late-Glacial Isotope Episodes https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/quaternary-research/article/defining-the-boundaries-of-the-lateglacial-isotope-episodes/ED0290CB6C9734A818CFE909CCEFB312

Interhemispheric transport of carbon dioxide by ocean circulation https://www.nature.com/articles/356587a0

1993

Heinrich Events: Triggers of Ocean Circulation Change? https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-85016-5_10

A Search for an Early Holocene CACO3 Preservation Event https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/93PA00423

What Caused the Glacial to Interglacial CO2 Change? https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-84608-3_4

Evaluation of the 13C constraint on the uptake of fossil fuel CO2 by the ocean https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1029/93GB01445

Interhemispheric Transport of Carbon Through the Ocean https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-84608-3_22

1994

Massive iceberg discharges as triggers for global climate change https://www.nature.com/articles/372421a0

1996

Glacial Climate in the Tropics http://science.sciencemag.org/content/272/5270/1902

1997

Thermohaline Circulation, the Achilles Heel of Our Climate System: Will Man-Made CO2 Upset the Current Balance? http://science.sciencemag.org/content/278/5343/1582

Future directions of paleoclimate research https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0277379197000504

Will Our Ride into the Greenhouse Future be a Smooth One? http://oceanrep.geomar.de/33087/

Mountain glaciers: Recorders of atmospheric water vapor content? https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/97GB02267

Magnitude of the CaCO3 dissolution events marking the onset of times of glaciation https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/97PA01020

1998

The end of the present interglacial: How and when? https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0277379198000377

Does atmospheric CO2 police the rate of chemical weathering? https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/98GB01927

Paleocean circulation during the Last Deglaciation: A bipolar seesaw? https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/97PA03707

Antiphasing between Rainfall in Africa’s Rift Valley and North America’s Great Basin https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/quaternary-research/article/antiphasing-between-rainfall-in-africas-rift-valley-and-north-americas-great-basin/9B1EE73D21721A2EEFD0F1897034E52E

The sequence of events surrounding Termination II and their implications for the cause of glacial‐interglacial CO2 changes https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/98PA00920

1999

Climate Change Prediction http://science.sciencemag.org/content/283/5399/175.6

A Possible 20th-Century Slowdown of Southern Ocean Deep Water Formation http://science.sciencemag.org/content/286/5442/1132

CaCO3 size distribution: A paleocarbonate ion proxy? https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/1999PA900016

How strong is the Harvardton‐Bear Constraint? https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/1999GB900050

What If the Conveyor Were to Shut Down? Reflections on a Possible Outcome of the Great Global Experiment ftp://rock.geosociety.org/pub/gsatoday/gt9901.pdf

Core Top 14C Ages as a Function of Latitude and Water Depth on the Ontong‐Java Plateau https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/1998PA900009

2000

Abrupt climate change: causal constraints provided by the paleoclimate record https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012825200000192

Was a change in thermohaline circulation responsible for the Little Ice Age? https://www.pnas.org/content/97/4/1339.short

Converging Paths Leading to the Role of the Oceans in Climate Change https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/full/10.1146/annurev.energy.25.1.1

Late glacial diatom accumulation at 9°S in the Indian Ocean https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/1999PA000439

2001

Climate Swings Come into Focus http://science.sciencemag.org/content/294/5550/2308

Was the Medieval Warm Period Global? http://science.sciencemag.org/content/291/5508/1497

What caused the atmosphere’s CO2 content to rise during the last 8000 years? https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2001GC000177

Rock varnish: recorder of desert wetness? https://www.geosociety.org/gsatoday/archive/11/8/pdf/i1052-5173-11-8-4.pdf

A dramatic Atlantic dissolution event at the onset of the last glaciation https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2001GC000185

Reevaluation of the CaCO3 size index paleocarbonate ion proxy https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2001PA000660

Record of seafloor CaCO3 dissolution in the central equatorial Pacific https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2000GC000151

2002

Dust: Climate’s Rosetta Stone https://www.jstor.org/stable/1558157

Constraints on the glacial operation of the atlantic ocean’s conveyor circulation https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1560/8K19-VRHE-6F14-PFQQ

Carbonate ion concentration in glacial‐age deep waters of the Caribbean Sea https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2001GC000231

2003

Does the Trigger for Abrupt Climate Change Reside in the Ocean or in the Atmosphere? http://science.sciencemag.org/content/300/5625/1519

Holocene atmospheric CO2 increase as viewed from the seafloor https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2002GB001985

Shell weights from intermediate depths in the Caribbean Sea https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2002GC000491

2004

Future Global Warming Scenarios http://science.sciencemag.org/content/304/5669/388.2

Glacial ventilation rates for the deep Pacific Ocean https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2003PA000974

Ventilation of the Glacial Deep Pacific Ocean http://science.sciencemag.org/content/306/5699/1169

2006

Abrupt climate change revisited https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S092181810600186X

The Holocene CO2 rise: Anthropogenic or natural? https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2006EO030002

Was the Younger Dryas Triggered by a Flood? http://science.sciencemag.org/content/312/5777/1146

Global warming: Take action or wait? https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11434-006-1017-4

2007

CO2 Arithmetic http://science.sciencemag.org/content/315/5817/1371

Radiocarbon age of late glacial deep water from the equatorial Pacific https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2006PA001359

A 190‰ drop in atmosphere’s Δ14C during the “Mystery Interval” (17.5 to 14.5 kyr) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012821X07000313

Is the magnitude of the carbonate ion decrease in the abyssal ocean over the last 8 kyr consistent with the 20 ppm rise in atmospheric CO2 content? https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2006PA001311

2008

Near constancy of the Pacific Ocean surface to mid-depth radiocarbon-age difference over the last 20 kyr https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012821X08004780

A need to improve reconstructions of the fluctuations in the calcite compensation depth over the course of the Cenozoic https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2007PA001456

2009

A Great Basin-wide dry episode during the first half of the Mystery Interval? https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0277379109002509

The Mysterious 14C Decline https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/radiocarbon/article/mysterious-14c-decline/61A16C59506B7D1B570A51A4EF3C05D3

Wally’s Quest to Understand the Ocean’s CaCO3 Cycle https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/full/10.1146/annurev.marine.010908.163936

2010

Putting the Younger Dryas cold event into context https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S027737911000051X

Long-Term Water Prospects in the Western United States https://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/full/10.1175/2010JCLI3780.1

Search for a glacial‐age 14C‐depleted ocean reservoir https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2010GL043969

2012

The Carbon Cycle and Climate Change: Memoirs of my 60 years in Science https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/perspectives/article-abstract/1/2/221/138762

How did the hydrologic cycle respond to the two-phase mystery interval? https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0277379112003757

2013

Hydrologic impacts of past shifts of Earth’s thermal equator offer insight into those to be produced by fossil fuel CO2 https://www.pnas.org/content/110/42/16710.short

2014

Delayed Holocene reappearance of G. menardii https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/2013PA002590

2015

Two contributors to the glacial CO2 decline https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012821X1500446X

2017

When climate change predictions are right for the wrong reasons https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10584-017-1927-y

2018

CO2: Earth’s Climate Driver https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/perspectives/article-abstract/7/2/117/567159