FN Archimer Export Format PT J TI The last five glacial-interglacial transitions: A high-resolution 450,000-year record from the subantarctic Atlantic BT AF CORTESE, G. ABELMANN, A. GERSONDE, R. AS 1:1;2:1;3:1; FF 1:;2:;3:; C1 Alfred Wegener Inst Polar & Marine Res, D-27515 Bremerhaven, Germany. C2 INST A WEGENER, GERMANY IF 3.391 TC 49 UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00236/34725/33297.pdf LA English DT Article CR IMAGES 3-IPHIS-MD106 BO Marion Dufresne DE ;paleotemperature;radiolaria;Southern Ocean AB A submillennial resolution, radiolarian-based record of summer sea surface temperature (SST) documents the last five glacial to interglacial transitions at the subtropical front, southern Atlantic Ocean. Rapid fluctuations occur both during glacial and interglacial intervals, and sudden cooling episodes at glacial terminations are recurrent. Surface hydrography and global ice volume proxies from the same core suggest that summer SST increases prior to terminations lead global ice- volume decreases by 4.7 +/- 3.7 ka (in the eccentricity band), 6.9 +/- 2.5 ka (obliquity), and 2.7 +/- 0.9 ka (precession). A comparison between SST and benthic delta C-13 suggests a decoupling in the response of northern subantarctic surface, intermediate, and deep water masses to cold events in the North Atlantic. The matching features between our SST record and the one from core MD97-2120 (southwest Pacific) suggests that the super-regional expression of climatic events is substantially affected by a single climatic agent: the Subtropical Front, amplifier and vehicle for the transfer of climatic change. The direct correlation between warmer Delta T-site at Vostok and warmer SST at ODP Site 1089 suggests that warmer oceanic/atmospheric conditions imply a more southward placed frontal system, weaker gradients, and therefore stronger Agulhas input to the Atlantic Ocean. PY 2007 PD OCT SO Paleoceanography SN 0883-8305 PU Amer Geophysical Union VL 22 IS 4/PA4203 UT 000250451700001 BP 1 EP 14 DI 10.1029/2007PA001457 ID 34725 ER EF