Sea surface temperature in the Indian sector of the Southern Ocean over the Late Glacial and Holocene
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Date | 2020-08 | ||||||||||||||||
Language | English | ||||||||||||||||
Author(s) | Orme Lise C1, 2, Crosta Xavier3, Miettinen Arto1, 4, Divine Dmitry V1, 5, Husum Katrine1, Isaksson Elisabeth1, Wacker Lukas6, Mohan Rahul7, Ther Olivier3, Ikehara Minoru8 | ||||||||||||||||
Affiliation(s) | 1 : Norwegian Polar Institute, Tromsø, 9296, Norway 2 : ICARUS, Department of Geography, Maynooth University, Maynooth, Ireland 3 : UMR 5805 EPOC, Université de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France 4 : Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Helsink, Helsinki, 00014, Finland 5 : Department of Mathematics and Statistics, The Arctic University of Norway, 9037, Tromsø, Norway 6 : Department of Physics, ETH Zürich, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland 7 : National Centre for Polar and Ocean Research, Ministry of Earth Sciences, Government of India, Vasco-da-Gama, Goa 403 804, India 8 : Center for Advanced Marine Core Research, Kochi University, Nankoku, 783-8502, Japan |
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Source | Climate Of The Past (1814-9324) (Copernicus GmbH), 2020-08 , Vol. 16 , N. 4 , P. 1451-1467 | ||||||||||||||||
DOI | 10.5194/cp-16-1451-2020 | ||||||||||||||||
WOS© Times Cited | 10 | ||||||||||||||||
Abstract | Centennial and millennial scale variability of Southern Ocean temperature is poorly known, due to both short instrumental records and sparsely distributed high-resolution temperature reconstructions, with evidence for past temperature variability instead coming mainly from ice core records. Here we present a high-resolution (~ 60 year), diatom-based sea-surface temperature (SST) reconstruction from the western Indian sector of the Southern Ocean that spans the interval 14.2 to 1.0 ka BP (calibrated kiloyears before present). During the late deglaciation, the new SST record shows cool temperatures at 14.2–12.9 ka BP and gradual warming between 12.9–11.6 ka BP in phase with atmospheric temperature evolution. This supports that the temperature of the Southern Ocean during the deglaciation was linked with a complex combination of processes and drivers associated with reorganisations of atmospheric and oceanic circulation patterns. Specifically, we suggest that Southern Ocean surface warming coincided, within the dating uncertainties, with the reconstructed slowdown of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), rising atmospheric CO2 levels, changes in the southern westerly winds and enhanced upwelling. During the Holocene the record shows warm and stable temperatures from 11.6–8.7 ka BP followed by a slight cooling and greater variability from 8.7 to 1 ka BP, with a quasi-periodic variability of 200–260 years as identified by spectral analysis. We suggest that the increased variability during the mid to late Holocene may reflect the establishment of centennial variability in SST connected with changes in the high latitude atmospheric circulation and Southern Ocean convection, as identified in models. |
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