FN Archimer Export Format PT J TI Migration of the Antarctic Polar Front over the last glacial cycle BT AF Thöle, Lena Ai, Xuyuan Auderset, Alexandra Schmitt, Mareike Moretti, Simone Studer, Anja Michel, Elisabeth Wegmann, Martin Mazaud, Alain Bijl, Peter Sigman, Daniel Martinez-Garcia, Alfredo Jaccard, Samuel L. AS 1:1,2,3;2:2,4;3:2;4:2;5:2;6:2,5;7:6;8:7;9:6;10:3;11:4;12:2;13:1,8; FF 1:;2:;3:;4:;5:;6:;7:;8:;9:;10:;11:;12:;13:; C1 Institute of Geological Sciences and Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Climate Geochemistry Department, Mainz, Germany Marine Palynology and Paleoceanography, Department of Earth Sciences, Utrecht University, The Netherlands Department of Geosciences, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA Aquatic and Isotope Biogeochemistry, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Basel, Switzerland Laboratoire de Sciences et de l’Environnement (LSCE), Gif-sur-Yvette, France Institute of Geography and Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland. Institute of Earth Sciences, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland C2 UNIV BERN, SWITZERLAND MAX PLANCK INST CHEM, GERMANY UNIV UTRECHT, NETHERLANDS UNIV PRINCETON, USA UNIV BASEL, SWITZERLAND LSCE, FRANCE UNIV BERN, SWITZERLAND UNIV LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND TC 0 UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00847/95938/103885.pdf LA English DT Article CR MD 185 / INDIEN SUD 1 BO Marion Dufresne DE ;Paleoceanography;glacial–interglacial changes;Southern Ocean;ACC;atmospheric CO2 AB The Southern Hemisphere Westerly Winds (SWW) drive upwelling south of the Antarctic Polar Front (PF) that vents CO2 to the atmosphere. During the ice ages, a northward (equatorward) shift of the PF may have reduced this CO2 venting, helping to explain the lower atmospheric CO2 concentration of those times. However, evidence of PF migration is lacking. Here, we report biomarker–based sea surface temperature (SST) reconstructions from two marine sediment cores at different latitudes in the Southern Indian Ocean across the last glacial cycle. Using a quantitative framework for the effect of the PF on meridional SST gradient, we show that the PF underwent an equatorward shift during the ice ages. The PF latitude reconstruction, when compared with other data, also suggests a role for Earth’s axial tilt in the strength and latitude range of SWW-driven upwelling, which may explain previously noted deviations in atmospheric CO2 from a simple correlation with Antarctic climate. PY 2022 PD MAR SO Research Square. PU Research Square Platform LLC IS Version 1 DI 10.21203/rs.3.rs-1364006/v1 ID 95938 ER EF