TY - JOUR T1 - Dansgaard-Oeschger cycles: Interactions between ocean and sea ice intrinsic to the Nordic seas A1 - Dokken,Trond M. A1 - Nisancioglu,Kerim H. A1 - Li,Camille A1 - Battisti,David S. A1 - Kissel,Catherine AD - UNI Res AS, Bergen, Norway. AD - Bjerknes Ctr Climate Res, Bergen, Norway. AD - Univ Bergen, Dept Earth Sci, N-5007 Bergen, Norway. AD - Univ Bergen, Inst Geophys, N-5007 Bergen, Norway. AD - Univ Washington, Dept Atmospher Sci, Seattle, WA 98195 USA. AD - UVSQ, CNRS, CEA, Lab Sci Climat & Envionnement, Gif Sur Yvette, France. UR - https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00264/37490/ DO - 10.1002/palo.20042 KW - D-O cycles KW - Nordic seas KW - marine sediment core KW - Greenland ice core KW - abrupt changes KW - sea ice N2 - Dansgaard-Oeschger (D-O) cycles are the most dramatic, frequent, and wide-reaching abrupt climate changes in the geologic record. On Greenland, D-O cycles are characterized by an abrupt warming of 105 degrees C from a cold stadial to a warm interstadial phase, followed by gradual cooling before a rapid return to stadial conditions. The mechanisms responsible for these millennial cycles are not fully understood but are widely thought to involve abrupt changes in Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation due to freshwater perturbations. Here we present a new, high-resolution multiproxy marine sediment core monitoring changes in the warm Atlantic inflow to the Nordic seas as well as in local sea ice cover and influx of ice-rafted debris. In contrast to previous studies, the freshwater input is found to be coincident with warm interstadials on Greenland and has a Fennoscandian rather than Laurentide source. Furthermore, the data suggest a different thermohaline structure for the Nordic seas during cold stadials in which relatively warm Atlantic water circulates beneath a fresh surface layer and the presence of sea ice is inferred from benthic oxygen isotopes. This implies a delicate balance between the warm subsurface Atlantic water and fresh surface layer, with the possibility of abrupt changes in sea ice cover, and suggests a novel mechanism for the abrupt D-O events observed in Greenland ice cores. Y1 - 2013/09 PB - Amer Geophysical Union JF - Paleoceanography SN - 0883-8305 VL - 28 IS - 3 SP - 491 EP - 502 ID - 37490 ER -