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TI Sea surface temperature variability in the central-western Mediterranean Sea during the last 2700 years: a multi-proxy and multi-record approach
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AF CISNEROS, Merce
   CACHO, Isabel
   FRIGOLA, Jaime
   CANALS, Miquel
   MASQUE, Pere
   MARTRAT, Belen
   CASADO, Marta
   GRIMALT, Joan O.
   PENA, Leopoldo D.
   MARGARITELLI, Giulia
   LIRER, Fabrizio
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C1 Univ Barcelona, Dept Dinam Terra & Ocea, Fac Geol, GRC Geociencies Marines, Barcelona, Spain.
   Univ Autonoma Barcelona, Inst Ciencia & Tecnol Ambientals, Bellaterra, Spain.
   Edith Cowan Univ, Sch Nat Sci, Joondalup, Australia.
   Univ Western Australia, Oceans Inst, Crawley, Australia.
   CSIC, IDAEA, Barcelona, Spain.
   CNR, IAMC, I-80133 Naples, Italy.
C2 UNIV BARCELONA, SPAIN
   UNIV AUTONOMA BARCELONA, SPAIN
   UNIV EDITH COWAN, AUSTRALIA
   UNIV WESTERN AUSTRALIA, AUSTRALIA
   CSIC, SPAIN
   IAMC CNR, ITALY
IN DOAJ
IF 3.543
TC 43
UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00333/44460/44137.pdf
   https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00333/44460/44138.pdf
LA English
DT Article
AB This study presents the reconstructed evolution of sea surface conditions in the central-western Mediterranean Sea during the late Holocene (2700 years) from a set of multi-proxy records as measured on five short sediment cores from two sites north of Minorca (cores MINMC06 and HER-MC-MR3). Sea surface temperatures (SSTs) from alkenones and Globigerina bulloides Mg / Ca ratios are combined with δ18O measurements in order to reconstruct changes in the regional evaporation–precipitation (E–P) balance. We also revisit the G. bulloides Mg / Ca–SST calibration and re-adjusted it based on a set of core-top measurements from the western Mediterranean Sea. Modern regional oceanographic data indicate that Globigerina bulloides Mg / Ca is mainly controlled by seasonal spring SST conditions, related to the April–May primary productivity bloom in the region. In contrast, the alkenone–SST signal represents an integration of the annual signal.  The construction of a robust chronological framework in the region allows for the synchronization of the different core sites and the construction of “stacked” proxy records in order to identify the most significant climatic variability patterns. The warmest sustained period occurred during the Roman Period (RP), which was immediately followed by a general cooling trend interrupted by several centennial-scale oscillations. We propose that this general cooling trend could be controlled by changes in the annual mean insolation. Even though some particularly warm SST intervals took place during the Medieval Climate Anomaly (MCA), the Little Ice Age (LIA) was markedly unstable, with some very cold SST events mostly during its second half. Finally, proxy records for the last centuries suggest that relatively low E–P ratios and cold SSTs dominated during negative North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) phases, although SSTs seem to present a positive connection with the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO) index.
PY 2016
SO Climate Of The Past
SN 1814-9324
PU Copernicus Gesellschaft Mbh
VL 12
IS 4
UT 000376073100004
BP 849
EP 869
DI 10.5194/cp-12-849-2016
ID 44460
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