Tracking westerly wind directions over Europe since the middle Holocene
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| Date | 2022-12 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | English | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Author(s) | Hu Hsun-Ming 1, 2, Trouet Valerie3, Spötl Christoph4, Tsai Hsien-Chen1, 2, Chien Wei-Yi1, 2, Sung Wen-Hui1, 2, Michel Véronique5, 6, Yu Jin-Yi7, Valensi Patricia8, 9, Jiang Xiuyang10, Duan Fucai11, Wang Yongjin11, Mii Horng-Sheng12, Chou Yu-Min13, Lone Mahjoor Ahmad1, 2, 14, Wu Chung-Che1, 2, Starnini Elisabetta15, 16, Zunino Marta17, Watanabe Takaaki K.18, Watanabe Tsuyoshi18, 19, Hsu Huang-Hsiung20, Moore G.W.K.21, 22, Zanchetta Giovanni23, 24, 25, 26, Pérez-Mejías Carlos27, Lee Shih-Yu20, Shen Chuan-Chou1, 2 |
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| Affiliation(s) | 1 : High-Precision MassSpectrometry and Environment Change Laboratory (HISPEC), Department of Geosciences, National Taiwan University, Taipei, 10617, Taiwan, ROC 2 : Research Center for Future Earth, National Taiwan University, Taipei, 10617, Taiwan, ROC 3 : Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 85721, USA 4 : Institute of Geology, University of Innsbruck, 6020, Innsbruck, Austria 5 : Université Côte d’Azur, CNRS, CEPAM, 06300, Nice, France 6 : Université Côte d’Azur, CNRS, OCA, IRD, Géoazur, 06560, Valbonne, France 7 : Department of Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine, CA, 92697-3100, USA 8 : HNHP, UMR 7194, Sorbonne Universités, MNHN, CNRS, UPMC, UPVD, Paris, France 9 : Laboratoire Nice-Côte d’Azur, Fondation IPH, 06300, Nice, France 10 : Department of Geography Science, Fujian Normal University, 350117, Fuzhou, Fujian, China 11 : College of Geography Science, Nanjing Normal University, 210046, Nanjing, China 12 : Department of Earth Sciences, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, 11677, Taiwan, ROC 13 : Department of Ocean Science & Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, 518055, Guangdong, China 14 : Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences, Northumbria University, Newcastle, NE1 8ST, UK 15 : Department of Civilizations and Forms of Knowledge, University of Pisa, 56126, Pisa, Italy 16 : Archaeological Superintendency of Liguria, 16126, Genova, Italy 17 : Toirano Cave, 17055, Toirano, Italy 18 : Department of Natural History Sciences, Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, 060-0810, Japan 19 : KIKAI Institute for Coral Reef Sciences, Kikai Town, 891-6151, Japan 20 : Research Center for Environmental Changes, Academia Sinica, Taipei, 11529, Taiwan, ROC 21 : Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, M5S 1A7, Canada 22 : Department of Chemical and Physical Sciences, University of Toronto Mississauga, Mississauga, ON, L5L 1C6, Canada 23 : Department of Earth Sciences, University of Pisa, Pisa, 56100, Italy 24 : CIRSEC, Centre for Climatic Change Impact, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy 25 : INGV, Pisa, 56125, Italy 26 : IGAG-CNR, Monterotondo, Rome, Italy 27 : Institute of Global Environmental Change, Xi’an Jiaotong University, 710049, Xi’an, China |
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| Source | Nature Communications (2041-1723) (Springer Science and Business Media LLC), 2022-12 , Vol. 13 , N. 1 , P. 7866 (9p.) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| DOI | 10.1038/s41467-022-34952-9 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| WOS© Times Cited | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Abstract | The variability of the northern westerlies has been considered as one of the key elements for modern and past climate evolution. Their multiscale behavior and underlying control mechanisms, however, are incompletely understood, owing to the complex dynamics of Atlantic sea-level pressures. Here, we present a multi-annually resolved record of the westerly drift over the past 6,500 years from northern Italy. In combination with more than 20 other westerly-sensitive records, our results depict the non-stationary westerly-affected regions over mainland Europe on multi-decadal to multi-centennial time scales, showing that the direction of the westerlies has changed with respect to the migrations of the North Atlantic centers of action since the middle Holocene. Our findings suggest the crucial role of the migrations of the North Atlantic dipole in modulating the westerly-affected domain over Europe, possibly modulated by Atlantic Ocean variability. |
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