Publications


2009

Zeebe, R. E., Zachos, J. C., and G. R. Dickens. CO2 forcing alone insufficient to explain Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum warming. Nature Geoscience, in press, 2009.

Zeebe, R. E.. Hydration in solution is critical for stable oxygen isotope fractionation between carbonate ion and water. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 73, in press, 2009. PDF

Schulz, K. G. , J. Barcelos e Ramos, R. E. Zeebe, and U. Riebesell. CO2 perturbation experiments: similarities and differences between dissolved inorganic carbon and total alkalinity manipulations Biogeosciences Discuss., 6, 4441-4462, 2009. PDF

de Moel, H., G. M. Ganssen, F. J. C. Peeters, S. J. A. Jung, G. J. A. Brummer, D. Kroon, and Zeebe, R. E.. Planktic foraminiferal shell thinning in the Arabian Sea due to anthropogenic ocean acidification? Biogeosciences Discuss., 6, 1811–1835, 2009. PDF

Ilyina, T., Zeebe, R. E., E. Maier-Reimer, and C. Heinze, Early detection of ocean acidification effects on marine calcification. Global Biogeochem. Cycles, 23, GB1008, doi:10.1029/2008GB003278, 2009. PDF

2008

Uchikawa, J., and Zeebe, R. E.. Influence of terrestrial weathering on ocean acidification and the next glacial inception. Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L23608, doi:10.1029/2008GL035963, 2008. PDF

Zeebe, R. E., J. C. Zachos, K. Caldeira, and T. Tyrrell. Oceans: Carbon Emissions and Acidification. Science (Perspectives), 321, 51-52, doi:10.1126/science.1159124, 2008. FULL TEXT PDF Supporting Online Material

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Zeebe, R. E., and K. Caldeira. Close mass balance of long-term carbon fluxes from ice-core CO2 and ocean chemistry records. Nature Geoscience, doi:10.1038/ngeo185, 2008.



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Zachos, J. C., G. R. Dickens, and R. E. Zeebe.. An early Cenozoic perspective on greenhouse warming and carbon-cycle dynamics. Nature, 451, 279-283, doi:10.1038/nature06588, 2008.

Zeebe, R. E., J. Bijma, B. Hoenisch, A. Sanyal, H. J. Spero, and D. A. Wolf-Gladrow. Vital Effects and Beyond: A Modeling Perspective on Developing Paleoceanographic Proxy Relationships in Foraminifera, The Geological Society, London. Special Publications. Biogeochemical Controls on Palaeoceanographic Proxies. Eds.: James, R., Austin, W. E. N., Clarke, L., Rickaby, R. E. M., in press 2008. PDF

Zeebe, R. E., and D. A. Wolf-Gladrow, Carbon dioxide, dissolved (ocean). Encyclopedia of Paleoclimatology and Ancient Environments, Ed. V. Gornitz, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Earth Science Series, in press 2008. PDF

Wolf-Gladrow, D. A., and R. E. Zeebe. Isotope fractionation. Encyclopedia of Paleoclimatology and Ancient Environments, Ed. V. Gornitz, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Earth Science Series, in press 2008. PDF


2007

Zeebe, R. E.. Modeling CO2 chemistry, d13C, and oxidation of organic carbon and methane in sediment porewater: Implications for paleo-proxies in benthic foraminifera. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 71(13), 3238-3256, doi: 10.1016/j.gca.2007.05.004, 2007. PDF

Zeebe, R. E.. An expression for the overall oxygen isotope fractionation between the sum of dissolved inorganic carbon and water. Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., doi:10.1029/2003GC001663, 2007. PDF. Supplementary numerical routines for MATLAB and EXCEL.

Zeebe, R. E., and J. C. Zachos. Reversed deep-sea carbonate ion basin-gradient during Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum. Paleoceanography, 22, PA3201, doi:10.1029/2006PA001395, 2007. PDF

Wolf-Gladrow, D. A., R. E. Zeebe., C. Klaas, A. Koertzinger, and A. G. Dickson, Total alkalinity: the explicit conservative expression and its application to biogeochemical processes. Marine Chemistry, doi:10.1016/j.marchem.2007.01.006, 2007. PDF

Caldeira K., D. Archer, J. P. Barry, R. G. J. Bellerby, P. G. Brewer, L. Cao, A. G. Dickson, S. C. Doney, H. Elderfield, V. J. Fabry, R. A. Feely, J.-P. Gattuso, P. M. Haugan, O. Hoegh-Guldberg, A. K. Jain, J. A. Kleypas, C. Langdon, J. C. Orr, A. Ridgwell, C. L. Sabine, B. A. Seibel, Y. Shirayama, C. Turley, A. J. Watson, and R. E. Zeebe., Comment on "Modern-age buildup of CO2 and its effects on seawater acidity and salinity". Geophys. Res. Lett., in press 2007. PDF


2006

Schulz, K. G., and R. E. Zeebe. Pleistocene glacial terminations triggered by synchronous changes in Southern and Northern Hemisphere insolation: The insolation canon hypothesis. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 2006. PDF

Schulz, K. G., U. Riebesell, B. Rost, S. Thoms, and R. E. Zeebe, Determination of the rate constants for the carbon dioxide to bicarbonate inter-conversion in pH-buffered seawater systems, Mar. Chem., 100, 53-65, 2006. PDF

Zeebe, R. E., Marine carbonate chemistry, in The Encyclopedia of Earth. www.eoearth.org


2005

Zeebe, R. E., Stable boron isotope fractionation between dissolved B(OH)3 and B(OH)4-. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 69(11), 2753-2766, 2005. PDF

Zeebe, R. E., and D. Archer, Feasibility of ocean fertilization and its impact on future atmospheric CO2 levels. Geophys. Res. Lett., 32, L09703, doi:10.1029/2005GL022449, 2005. PDF

Ridgwell, A., and R. E. Zeebe. The role of the global carbonate cycle in the regulation and evolution of the Earth system. FRONTIERS ARTICLE, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., in press 2005. PDF

Koehler, P., H. Fischer, G. Munhoven, and R. E. Zeebe. Quantitative interpretation of atmospheric carbon records over the last glacial termination. Global Biogeochem. Cycles, (19), GB4020, doi:10.1029/2004GB002345, 2005. PDF

2004

Tyrrell, T. and R. E. Zeebe. History of carbonate ion concentration over the last 100 million years. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 68(17), 3521-3530, 2004. PDF

2003

Zeebe, R. E, and P. Westbroek, A simple model for the CaCO3 saturation state of the ocean: The "Strangelove", the "Neritan", and the "Cretan" ocean. Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 4(12), 1104, doi:10.1029/2003GC000538, 2003. PDF

Zeebe, R. E, D. A. Wolf-Gladrow, J. Bijma, and B. Hoenisch, Vital effects in planktonic foraminifera do not compromise the use of d11B as a paleo-pH indicator: Evidence from modeling. Paleoceanography, 18(2), doi: 10.1029/2003PA000881, 2003. PDF

Hoenisch, B., J. Bijma, A. D. Russell, H. J. Spero, M. R. Palmer, R. E. Zeebe, and A. Eisenhauer, The influence of symbiont photosynthesis on the boron isotopic composition of foraminifera shells. Marine Micropaleontology, 49(1-2), doi: doi:10.1016/S0377-8398(03)00030-6, 2003. PDF

2002

Zeebe, R. E. and A. Sanyal, Comparison of two potential strategies of planktonic foraminifera for house building: Mg2+ or H+ removal? Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 66(7), 1159-1169, 2002. PDF

Bijma, J., B. Hoenisch, and R. E. Zeebe, Impact of the ocean carbonate chemistry on living foraminiferal shell weight: Comment on ''Carbonate ion concentration in glacial-age deep waters of the Caribbean Sea'' by W. S. Broecker and E. Clark. Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 3(11), 1064, doi: 10.1029/2002GC000388, 2002. PDF

Jansen, H., R. E. Zeebe, and D. A. Wolf-Gladrow, Modeling the dissolution of settling CaCO3 in the ocean. Global Biogeochem. Cycles, 16(2), 10.1029/2000GB001279, 2002. PDF

2001

Zeebe, R. E. and Wolf-Gladrow. CO2 in Seawater: Equilibrium, Kinetics, Isotopes. Elsevier Oceanography Series, 65, pp. 346, Amsterdam, 2001. BOOK

Zeebe, R. E., Seawater pH and Isotopic Paleotemperatures of Cretaceous Oceans. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 170(1-2) 49-57, 2001. PDF

Zeebe, R. E., A. Sanyal, J. D. Ortiz, and D. A. Wolf-Gladrow, A theoretical study of the kinetics of the boric acid - borate equilibrium in seawater. Mar. Chem., 73(2), 113-124, 2001. PDF

Zondervan, I., R. E. Zeebe, B. Rost, and U. Riebesell, Decreasing marine biogenic calcification: A negative feedback on rising atmospheric pCO2. Global Biogeochem. Cycles, 15(2), 507-516, 2001. PDF

Riebesell, U., I. Zondervan, B. Rost, and R. E. Zeebe, Effects of increasing atmospheric CO2 on phytoplankton communities and the biological carbon pump. Global Change News Letters, 47, 12-15, 2001. PDF

2000

Riebesell, U., I. Zondervan, B. Rost, P. D. Tortell, R. E. Zeebe, and F. M. M. Morel, Reduced calcification of marine plankton in response to increased atmospheric CO2. Nature, 407, 364-367, 2000.

1999

Zeebe, R. E., An explanation of the effect of seawater carbonate concentration on foraminiferal oxygen isotopes.Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 63, 2001-2007, 1999. PDF

Zeebe, R. E., D. A. Wolf-Gladrow, and H. Jansen, On the time required to establish chemical and isotopic equilibrium in the carbon dioxide system in sea water. Mar. Chem., 65, 135-153, 1999. PDF

Zeebe, R. E., J. Bijma, and D. A. Wolf-Gladrow, A diffusion-reaction model of carbon isotope fractionation in foraminifera. Mar. Chem., 64, 199-227, 1999. PDF

Wolf-Gladrow, D. A., J. Bijma, and R. E. Zeebe, Model simulation of the carbonate system in the microenvironment of symbiont bearing foraminifera. Mar. Chem., 64, 181-198, 1999. PDF

1996

Zeebe, R. E., H. Eicken, D. H. Robinson, D. A. Wolf-Gladrow, and G. S. Dieckmann, Modeling the heating and melting of sea ice through light absorption by microalgae. J. Geophys. Res., 101, 1163-1181, 1996. PDF