FN Archimer Export Format PT J TI Influence of the North Atlantic subpolar gyre circulation on the 4.2 ka BP event BT AF Jalali, Bassem Sicre, Marie-Alexandrine Azuara, Julien Pellichero, Violaine Combourieu-Nebout, Nathalie AS 1:1;2:1;3:2;4:1;5:2; FF 1:;2:;3:;4:;5:; C1 LOCEAN Laboratory, Sorbonne Universités (UPMC, Univ Paris 06)-CNRS-IRD-MNHN, Paris, France Histoire naturelle de l'Homme Préhistorique (UMR 7194 CNRS), Département Homme et Environnement, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Institut de Paléontologie humaine,Paris, France C2 UNIV PARIS 06, FRANCE MNHN, FRANCE IF 3.536 TC 12 UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00488/60005/63242.pdf https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00488/60005/63243.pdf https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00488/60005/63244.pdf LA English DT Article CR GMO2 - CARNAC IMAGES 1-MD101 IMAGES V LEG 1-MD114 IMAGES V LEG 4-MD114 IMAGES V LEG 5 BO Le Suroît Marion Dufresne AB The 4.2 ka BP event, spanning from ca 4200 to 3900 cal BP, has been documented in numerous archaeological data and continental archives across the Northern Hemisphere as an abrupt shift to dry and cold climate. However, data on synchronous ocean circulation changes are notably lacking, thus preventing us from getting a full insight into the physical mechanisms responsible for this climate deterioration. Here, we present two high-resolution (5–20 years) sea surface temperature (SST) records from the subpolar gyre and off north Iceland in the vicinity of the polar front obtained from alkenone paleo-thermometry and compare them with proxy data from the western Mediterranean Sea to gain information on regional temperature and precipitation patterns. Our results are evidence of a temperature dipole pattern which, combined with other paleo-oceanographic records of the North Atlantic, suggests a weakening of the subpolar gyre possibly associated with atmospheric blocked regimes. PY 2019 PD APR SO Climate Of The Past SN 1814-9324 PU Copernicus GmbH VL 15 IS 2 UT 000463863900001 BP 701 EP 711 DI 10.5194/cp-15-701-2019 ID 60005 ER EF