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Rapid global ocean-atmosphere response to Southern Ocean freshening during the last glacial
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Turney, CSM and Jones, RT and Phipps, SJ and Thomas, Z and Hogg, A and Kershaw, AP and Fogwill, CJ and Palmer, J and Ramsey, CB and Adolphi, F and Muscheler, R and Hughen, KA and Staff, RA and Grosvenor, M and Golledge, NR and Rasmussen, SO and Hutchinson, DK and Haberle, S and Lorrey, A and Boswijk, G and Cooper, A, Rapid global ocean-atmosphere response to Southern Ocean freshening during the last glacial, Nature Communications, 8 Article 520. ISSN 2041-1723 (2017) [Refereed Article]
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DOI: doi:10.1038/s41467-017-00577-6
Abstract
Contrasting Greenland and Antarctic temperatures during the last glacial period (115,000 to 11,650 years ago) are thought to have been driven by imbalances in the rates of formation of North Atlantic and Antarctic Deep Water (the ‘bipolar seesaw’). Here we exploit a bidecadally resolved 14C data set obtained from New Zealand kauri (Agathis australis) to undertake high-precision alignment of key climate data sets spanning iceberg-rafted debris event Heinrich 3 and Greenland Interstadial (GI) 5.1 in the North Atlantic (~30,400 to 28,400 years ago). We observe no divergence between the kauri and Atlantic marine sediment 14C data sets, implying limited changes in deep water formation. However, a Southern Ocean (Atlantic-sector) iceberg rafted debris event appears to have occurred synchronously with GI-5.1 warming and decreased precipitation over the western equatorial Pacific and Atlantic. An ensemble of transient meltwater simulations shows that Antarctic-sourced salinity anomalies can generate climate changes that are propagated globally via an atmospheric Rossby wave train.
Item Details
| Item Type: | Refereed Article |
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| Keywords: | climate, climate variability, climate modelling, palaeoclimate, ocean, atmosphere, glacial cycle, Greenland, Antarctica, Southern Ocean |
| Research Division: | Earth Sciences |
| Research Group: | Physical geography and environmental geoscience |
| Research Field: | Palaeoclimatology |
| Objective Division: | Environmental Policy, Climate Change and Natural Hazards |
| Objective Group: | Understanding climate change |
| Objective Field: | Climate variability (excl. social impacts) |
| UTAS Author: | Phipps, SJ (Dr Steven Phipps) |
| ID Code: | 121373 |
| Year Published: | 2017 |
| Web of Science® Times Cited: | 15 |
| Deposited By: | Oceans and Cryosphere |
| Deposited On: | 2017-09-26 |
| Last Modified: | 2018-05-24 |
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