Atmospheric CO2 concentrations over the last glacial termination.

@article{Monnin2001AtmosphericCC,
  title={Atmospheric CO2 concentrations over the last glacial termination.},
  author={{\'E}ric Monnin and Andreas Inderm{\"u}hle and A. D{\"a}llenbach and Jacqueline Flückiger and B. Stauffer and Thomas F. Stocker and Dominique Raynaud and J-M. Barnola},
  journal={Science},
  year={2001},
  volume={291 5501},
  pages={
          112-4
        }
}
A record of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentration during the transition from the Last Glacial Maximum to the Holocene, obtained from the Dome Concordia, Antarctica, ice core, reveals that an increase of 76 parts per million by volume occurred over a period of 6000 years in four clearly distinguishable intervals. The close correlation between CO2 concentration and Antarctic temperature indicates that the Southern Ocean played an important role in causing the CO2 increase. However, the… 
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