This article has been accepted for publication and undergone full peer review but has not been through the copyediting, typesetting, pagination and proofreading process which may lead to differences between this version and the Version of Record. Please cite this article as doi: 10.1002/2015GB005257 ©2016 American Geophysical Union. All rights reserved. Multi-decadal variations in Southern Hemisphere atmospheric 14 C: Evidence against a Southern Ocean sink at the end of the Little Ice Age CO 2 anomaly Chris S.M. Turney 1* , Jonathan Palmer 1 , Alan Hogg 2 , Christopher J. Fogwill 1 , Richard Jones 3 , Christopher Bronk Ramsey 4 , Pavla Fenwick 5 , Pauline Grierson 6 , Janet Wilmshurst 7,8 , Alison O‟Donnell 6 , Zoë Thomas 1 and Mathew Lipson 1 1 Climate Change Research Centre and School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Australia; 2 Waikato Radiocarbon Laboratory, University of Waikato, Private Bag 3105, Hamilton, New Zealand; 3 Department of Geography, Exeter University, Devon, EX4 4RJ, United Kingdom; 4 Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, University of Oxford, Dyson Perrins Building, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QY, UK; 5 Gondwana Tree-Ring Laboratory, P.O. Box 14, Little River, Canterbury 7546, New Zealand; 6 Ecosystems Research Group, School of Plant Biology, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia; 7 Landcare Research, PO Box 40, Lincoln 7640, New Zealand; 8 School of Environment, University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland 1142, New Zealand. * To whom correspondence may be addressed. Email: c.turney@unsw.edu.au.