Carbon Cycling in the Glacial Ocean: Constraints on the Ocean’s Role in Global Change – Quantitative Approaches in Paleoceanography – Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Carbon Cycling in the Glacial Ocean – Constraints on the Ocean’s Role in Global Change, Held at Fellhorst, Germany, September 17-19, 1992

This is a comprehensive progress report on the multidisciplinary field of ocean and climate change research. It compiles introductory background papers and leading scientific results on the ocean-atmosphere carbon cycle with emphasis on the ocean’s carbon inventory and the various components involved. The relationship between plankton productivity, carbon fixation, oceanic PCO2 and climate change is investigated from the viewpoint of long-term climatic change during the late Quaternary cycles of Ice Ages and Warm Ages. The various approaches range from micropalaeontology over organic and trace element geochemistry to molecular isotope geochemistry.