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    Temporal variation in the interhemispheric ¹⁴C offset

    McCormac, F. G.; Hogg, A. G.; Higham, T. F. G.; Lynch Stieglitz, J.; Broecker, W. S.; Baillie, M. G. L.; Palmer, J. G.; Xiong, Limin; Pilcher, J. R.; Brown, Dalin S.; Hoper, S. T.
    Abstract
    Contemporaneous tree-ring dated wood, from trees in the northern and southern hemispheres, gives different ¹⁴C dates. Previous studies [Vogel et al., 1986; 1993] using wood from South Africa and The Netherlands have shown depletion's of −4.56 ± 0.85‰ and −5.12±0.62‰ respectively. This translates to age differences of 36±7 and 41±5 years (yrs) with the southern hemisphere giving the older dates. More recently, Stuiver and Braziunas [1998] have shown that an offset of 23±4 yrs exists between combined 19th century wood measurements from Tasmania and Chile in the southern hemisphere and the west coast of the U.S. (Washington) in the northern hemisphere. In this study measurements on contemporaneous decadal samples of oak from the British Isles and cedar from New Zealand over the period 1725 to 1885 AD show a depletion of −3.4±0.58‰ (27.2±4.7 yrs). However, data after 1895 AD has a mean offset of 0.66±1.06‰ (−5.3±8.5 yrs) with increased variance compared to 19th century data. This, we believe, is attributable to anthropogenic fossil fuel, which, due to its long residence time in the earth, has long since lost any ¹⁴C component and when burned preferentially depletes the northern hemisphere atmosphere of ¹⁴C.... [Show full abstract]
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    tree-rings; carbon 14; hemispheres; varaiation; ¹⁴C; radiocarbon dating; Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences
    Date
    1998-05
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    Copyright 1998 by the American Geophysical Union.
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    McCormac, F. G., Hogg, A. G., Higham, T. F. G., Lynch-Stieglitz, J., Broecker, W. S., Baillie, M. G. L., et al. (1998). Temporal variation in the interhemispheric ¹⁴C offset. Geophysical Research Letters, 25(9), 1321-1324.
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