David Archer, Professor, Department of the Geophysical Sciences and the College

Review Papers

The importance of the deep ocean temperature to global biogeochemistry Archer, D., P. Martin, B. Buffett, V. Brovkin, S. Rahmstorf, and A. Ganapolski. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 222: 333-348, 2004

Biological fluxes in the ocean and atmospheric pCO2 Archer., D, in Treatise on Geochemistry, Volume 6, The Oceans and Marine Geochemistry, edited by H. Elderfield

What caused the glacial / interglacial pCO2 cycles? Archer, D., A. Winguth, D. Lea, and N. Mahowald. Reviews of Geophysics 38: 159-189, 2000.

Modeling CO2 in the ocean: A review D. Archer, in Scaling of Trace Gas Fluxes between Terrestrial and Aquatic Ecosystems and the Atmosphere, edited by A.F. Bouwman, Elsevier, in press.

Upper Ocean Physics as Relevant to Ecosystem Dynamics: a Tutorial. D. Archer, Ecosystem Applications, 5(3): 724-739, 1995

Ocean control of the pCO2 of the Atmosphere

Model sensitivity in the effect of Antarctic sea ice and stratification on atmospheric pCO2 Archer, D.E., P.A. Martin, J. Milovich, V. Brovkin, G.-K. Plattner, and C. Ashendel. Paleoceanography 18 (1) 1012, doi:10.1029/2002PA000760, 2003.

What caused the glacial / interglacial pCO2 cycles? Archer, D., A. Winguth, D. Lea, and N. Mahowald. Reviews of Geophysics 38: 159-189, 2000.

Atmospheric CO2 sensitivity to the biological pump in the ocean D. Archer, G. Eshel, A. Winguth, and W. Broecker. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 14: 1219-1230, 2000.

The pH of the Ocean

Glacial-interglacial stability of ocean pH inferred from foranifer dissolution rates Nature 416: 70-73, 2002.

Effect of deep-sea sedimentary calcite preservation on atmospheric CO2 concentration, D. Archer and E. Maier-Reimer, Nature, 367: 260-264, 1994

Fate of Fossil Fuel CO2

Dynamics of fossil fuel neutralization by Marine CaCO3, Archer, D., Kheshgi, H., and Maier-Reimer, E., Global Biogeochemical Cycles 12: 259-276, 1998

Multiple timescales for neutralization of fossil fuel CO2, Archer, D., Kheshgi, H., and Maier-Reimer, E., Geophysical Research Letters 24(4): 405-408, 1997

Geochemical consequences of increased atmospheric CO2 on coral reefs. Kleypas, J., R.W. Buddemeier, D. Archer, J.-P. Gattuso, C. Langdon, and B. Opdyke, Science 284: 118-120, 1999.

Sediment Geochemistry

A model of suboxic sedimentary diagenesis suitable for automatic tuning and gridded global domains. D. Archer, J.L. Morford, and S. Emerson, Global Biogeochemical Cycles 16: 10.1029/2000BG001288, 2002. (Run the model on-line)

A data-driven model of the calcite lysocline. Archer, Global Biogeochemical Cycles 10: 511-526, 1996.

An atlas of the distribution of calcium carbonate in sediments of the deep sea. D. Archer, Global Biogeochemical Cycles 10(1): 159-174, 1996.

Equatorial Pacific calcite preservation cycles: Production or dissolution?, Archer, Paleoceanography, 6, 561-572, 1991.

Modeling the Calcite Lysocline. Archer, J. Geophys Res, 96, 17,037-17,050, 1991.

What Controls Opal Preservation in Tropical Deep Sea Sediments? Paleoceanography, 8, 7-21, 1993

Derivation of the Relaxation Method Algorithm used in my CaCO3 diagenesis models (Appendix 1B from my thesis)

The Iron Cycle in the Ocean

A model of the iron cycle in the ocean D. Archer and K. Johnson, Global Biogeochemical Cycles 14: 269-279, 2000.

The Biological Pump in the Ocean

Association of sinking organic matter with various types of mineral ballast in the deep sea: Implications for the rain ratio. C. Klaas and D. Archer. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, submitted.

Last Glacial Maximum Ocean Circulation

A. Winguth, D. Archer,E. Maier-Reimer, U. Mikolajewicz, and J.-C. Duplessey. Sensitivity of paleonutrient tracer distributions and deep sea circulation to glacial boundary conditions. Paleoceanography 14: 304-323, 1999.

A. Winguth, D. Archer,E. Maier-Reimer, U. Mikolajewicz. Paleonutrient data analysis of the glacial Atlantic using an adjoint ocean general circulation model, in Inverse Methods in Global Biogeochemical Cycles, AGO Geophsical monograph Series, edited by P. Kasibhatla, M. Heimann, D. Harley, N. Mahowald., R. Prinn, and P Rayner

Carbon Cycle in the Upper Ocean

The impact of fronts and mesoscale circulation on the nutrient supply and biogeochemistry of the upper ocean. Mahadevan, A., and D. Archer, J. Geophys. Res. 105: 1209-1225, 2000.

Modeling a limited region of the ocean Mahadevan, A., and D. Archer, J. Computational Physics 145: 555-574, 1998.

A timescale for dissolved organic carbon production in equatorial Pacific surface waters. D. Archer, E. Peltzer, and D. Kirchman, Global Biogeochemical Cycles 11: 435-452, 1997.

A Meeting Place of Great Ocean Currents: Shipboard Observations of a Convergent Front at 2o N in the Pacific. D. Archer and others, Deep-Sea Res II 44: 1827-1850, 1997.

Daily, seasonal, and interannual variability of sea surface carbon and nutrient concentration in the equatorial Pacific Ocean. Archer, T. Takahashi, S. Sutherland, J. Goddard, D. Chipman, K. Rodgers, and H. Ogura, Deep-Sea Res., 43, 779-808, 1996.

Upper Ocean Physics as Relevant to Ecosystem Dynamics: a Tutorial. Archer, Ecosystem Applications, 5(3): 724-739, 1995

Numerical Hindcasting of Sea Surface pCO2 at Weathership Station Papa, Archer, Progress in Oceanography, 32, 319-351, 1993