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TI Ocean circulation reconstructions from epsilon(Nd): A model-based feasibility study
BT 
AF FRIEDRICH, T.
   TIMMERMANN, A.
   STICHEL, T.
   PAHNKE, K.
AS 1:1;2:1;3:2;4:3;
FF 1:;2:;3:;4:;
C1 Univ Hawaii Manoa, Sch Ocean & Earth Sci & Technol, Int Pacific Res Ctr, Honolulu, HI 96822 USA.
   Univ Southampton, Natl Oceanog Ctr Southampton, Southampton, Hants, England.
   Carl von Ossietzky Univ Oldenburg, Inst Chem & Biol Marine Environm, Oldenburg, Germany.
C2 UNIV HAWAII MANOA, USA
   UNIV SOUTHAMPTON, UK
   UNIV OLDENBURG, GERMANY
IF 3.738
TC 12
UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00289/40055/39405.pdf
   https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00289/40055/39406.pdf
LA English
DT Article
CR IMAGES V LEG 1-MD114
   IMAGES V LEG 4-MD114
BO Marion Dufresne
DE ;neodymium;ocean circulation;meridional overturning;ocean modeling;reconstruction
AB Over the past decade, records of the seawater neodymium isotopic composition (epsilon(Nd)) have become a widely used proxy to reconstruct changes in ocean circulation. Our study investigates the transient response of epsilon(Nd) to large-scale ocean circulation changes using an Earth system model of intermediate complexity. It is shown that a weakening of the North Atlantic Deep Water formation results in positive epsilon(Nd) anomalies in the Atlantic and the Pacific below 1000m water depth whereas variations in Antarctic Bottom Water production generate a Pacific-Atlantic dipole pattern of deep ocean epsilon(Nd) changes. Further experiments explore which ocean regions are suitable to record the temporal evolution of the overturning in the North Atlantic and the Southern Ocean by means of epsilon(Nd) data. High local correlations occur between simulated Southern Ocean overturning changes and simulated epsilon(Nd) anomalies in the deep North Pacific and almost globally for simulated North Atlantic overturning changes, respectively, clearly indicating the strong potential of epsilon(Nd) to work as a proxy of past ocean circulation changes. Finally, the compromising effects of simultaneously occurring anomalies in the North Atlantic and the Southern Ocean overturning cells on reconstructions of past ocean circulation changes are identified. Combining our model simulations with currently available core data, our study demonstrates that changes in epsilon(Nd) documented in numerous Atlantic paleorecords clearly support the notion of a strengthening in the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation over the course of Termination 1.
PY 2014
PD NOV
SO Paleoceanography
SN 0883-8305
PU Amer Geophysical Union
VL 29
IS 11
UT 000346489000001
BP 1003
EP 1023
DI 10.1002/2014PA002658
ID 40055
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