Scientific Literature
2000 - 2009
, On the long-term stability of reference gases for atmospheric O2/N2 and CO2 measurements, Tellus, 58B, 3-14, 2007. PDF
, Diffusive Separation of the Lower Atmosphere, Science, Vol.311, p.1429, 2006. Link
, "Atmospheric potential oxygen: New observations and their implications for some atmospheric and oceanic models", Glob. Biogeochem. Cycle, 20, 2006.
, "An improved inlet for precisely measuring the atmospheric Ar/N2 ratio", Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 6, 1181-1184, 2006.
, Global oceanic and land biotic carbon sinks from the Scripps atmospheric oxygen flask sampling network, Tellus, 58B, 95-116, 2006. PDF
, "Northern ice discharges and Antarctic warming: could ocean eddies provide the link?", Quaternary Science Reviews, 24, 1809-1820, 2005.
, Comment on "The ocean sink for anthropogenic CO2", Science, 308, 2005.
, "Southern Ocean ventilation inferred from seasonal cycles of atmospheric N2O and O2/N2 at Cape Grim, Tasmania",Tellus Series B - Chem. Phys. Meteorol., 57, 218-229, 2005.
, "Measurement of changes in atmospheric Ar/N2 ratio using a rapid-switching, single-capillary mass spectrometer system", Tellus, 56B, 322-338, 2004a.
, "On the long-term stability of O2/N2 reference gases", in Report of theTwelfth WMO/IAEA Meeting of Experts on Carbon Dioxide Concentration and Related Tracer Measurements, edited by D. E. Worthy and L. Huang, World Meteorological Organization, Toronto, Canada, 2004b.
, "Airborne measurements of O2/N2, Ar/N2, CO2 and other species during COBRA-NA 2003", paper presented at Fall AGU Meeting, San Francisco, 2003.
, "Two decades of ocean CO2 sink and variability", Tellus Series B - Chem Phys. Meteorol., 55, 649-656, 2003.
, "Coastal upwelling air-sea fluxes revealed in atmospheric observations of O2/N2, CO2 and N2O", Geophys. Res. Lett., 30, art. no. 1292, 2003.
, "Interpreting the seasonal cycles of atmospheric oxygen and carbon dioxide concentrations at American Samoa Observatory", Geophys. Res. Lett., 30, art. no. 1333, 2003.
, Shipboard measurements of atmospheric oxygen using a vacuum-ultraviolet absorption technique, Tellus Series B, 55, 857-878, 2003. PDF
, The change in oceanic O2 inventory associated with recent global warming, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 99 (12), 7848-7853, 2002. PDF
, "On the freshwater forcing of the thermohaline circulation in the limit of low diapycnal mixing", Journal of Geophysical Research - Oceans, art. no. 3077, 2002.
, "Precessionally forced productivity variations across the equatorial Pacific", Paleooceanography, 17, art. no. 1037, 2002.
, On the global oxygen anomaly and air-sea flux, Journal of Geophysical Research, 2001 Link.
, "Paleoceanography-Antarctic stratification and glacial CO2", Nature, Vol.412, p.605-606, 2001.
The oxygen to carbon dioxide ratios observed in emissions from a wildfire in Northern California, Geophysical Research Letters, 28, 2413-2416, 2001. PDF
, Antarctic sea ice and the control of Pleistocene climate instability, Paleoceanography, Vol.16, 112-131, 2001. PDF
, Correction to 'Antarctic sea ice and the control of Pleistocene climate instability' by Ralph F. Keeling and Britton B. Stephens, Paleoceanography, Vol.16, 330-334, 2001. PDF
Atmospheric oxygen measurements and the carbon cycle, Global Change Institute, Proceedings on the Carbon Cycle, T.M.L. Wigley and D.S. Schimel, Eds. Cambridge University Press, New York, 124-140, 2000. BOOK CHAPTER.PDF
The mean annual cycle of the air-sea oxygen flux: a global view, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 14, 573-584, 2000.PDF
, The CO2 budget and rectification airborne study: Strategies for Measuring Recifiers and Regional Fluxes, Inverse Methods in Global Biogeochemical Cycles Geophysical Monograph 114, 2000. PDF
, The influence of Antarctic sea ice on glacial-interglacial CO2 variations, Nature, Vol. 404, 171-174, 2000. PDF
1990-1999
, Partitioning of the global fossil CO2 sink using a 19-year trend in atmospheric O2, Geophysical Research Letters, Vol. 26, No. 13, 1897-1900. July 1, 1999. PDF
Atmospheric oxygen concentrations at Alert Station in relation to the global carbon cycle, in Canadian Baseline Program: Summary of Progress to 1998, Environment Canada, Atmospheric Environment Service, 5-31 to 5-34, 1999. PDF
, Precise atmospheric oxygen measurements with a paramagnetic oxygen analyzer, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, Vol. 13, 1107-1115, 1999. PDF
The O2 balance of the atmosphere: a tool for studying the fate of fossil-fuel CO2, Annual Rev. Energy Environ., Vol.23, p.207-223, 1998. PDF
, Seasonal variations in the atmospherice O2/N2 ration in relation to kinetics of air-sea gas exchange, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, Vol..12, 141-163, 1998. PDF
, Methods for measuring changes in atmospheric O2 concentration and their application to southern hemisphere air, Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol.103, p.3381-3397, 1998. RESEARCH ARTICLE PDF
A 400 kyr record of combustion oxygen demand in the western equatorial Pacific: Evidence for a precessionally forced climate response, Paleoceanography, Vol.13, 63-69, 1998. PDF
, Geochemical Earth Reference Model (GERM): description of the initiative, Chemical Geology, Vol.145, p.153-159, 1998. Link
, Testing global ocean carbon cycle models using measurements of atmospheric O2 and CO2 concentration, Global Biogeochemical cycles, Vol.12, No.2, 213-230, June 1998. PDF
Analysis of the mean annual cycle of the dissolved oxygen anomaly in the world ocean, Journal of Marine Research, Vol.55, p.117-151, 1997. PDF
, Feasibility of using sand dunes as archives of old air, Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol.102, 16783-16792, 1997.
, Global and hemispheric CO2 sinks deduced from changes in atmospheric O2 concentration, Nature, Vol. 381, 218-221, 1996. PDF
, Fractionation of soil gases by diffusion of water vapour, gravitational settling, and thermal diffusion, Geochimica et Cosmochemica Acta, Vol.60, 1005-1018, 1996. PDF
, The atmospheric oxygen cycle: the oxygen isotopes of atmospheric CO2 and O2 and the O2/N2 ratio, Reviews of Geophysics, Supplement, U.S. National Report to the IUGG 1991-1994, 1253-1262, 1995. PDF
, Transport of heat, CO2, and O2 by the Atlantic's thermohanline circulation, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Vol.348, 133-142, 1995. PDF
, Recentvariations in atmospheric oxygen and implications for the global carbon cycle, Proceedings of the International Symposium on Global Cycles of Atmospheric Greenhouse Gases, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, 235-240, 1994. EXTENDED ABSTRACT
, Heavy Carbon Dioxide, Nature, Vol. 363, 399-400, 1993. PDF
, What atmospheric oxygen measurements can tell us about the global carbon cycle, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, Vol.7, 37-67, 1993. PDF
, On the role of large bubbles in air-sea gas exchange and supersaturation in the ocean, Journal of Marine Research, Vol 51, 237-271, 1993.PDF
, Correlations in short-term variations in atmospheric oxygen and carbon dioxide at Mauna Loa Observatory, Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Laboratory, No.22, Summary Report 1993, J.T. Peterson, R.M. Rosson eds, Boulder, 121-123,1993, BOOK CHAPTER
, Oceanic C13 data: a new window on Co2 uptake by the oceans, Global Biogeochemical Cycles Vol.7, 353-369, 1993. PDF
, Summary of workshop on interannual variations in the carbon cycle, The Global Carbon Cycle, M. Heimann, ed., Springer Verlag, 579-581, 1993. BOOK CHAPTER
, Variations in atmospheric molecular oxygen at Mauna Loa, Climate Monitoring and diagnostics Laboratory, No.20, Summary Report 1991, E.E. Ferguson and R.M. Rosson, eds. Boulder, 103-104, 1992. BOOK CHAPTER
, Seasonal an interannual variations in atmospheric oxygen and implications for the global carbon cycle, Nature, Vol.358, 723-727, 1992. PDF
, Mechanisms for stabilization and destabilization of a simple biosphere: catastrophe on Daisyworld, Scientists on Gaia, S. Schneider and P. Boston eds., MIT press, Cambridge, Massechusetts, 118-120, 1991. BOOK CHAPTER. PDF
1980 - 1989
, Measuring correlations between atmospheric oxygen and carbon dioxide mole fractions: a preliminary study in urban air, Journal of Atmospheric Chemistry, Vol.7, 153-176, 1988. PDF