dc.contributor.author | McClymont, EL | |
dc.contributor.author | Elmore, AC | |
dc.contributor.author | Kender, S | |
dc.contributor.author | Leng, MJ | |
dc.contributor.author | Greaves, M | |
dc.contributor.author | Elderfield, H | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-05-23T13:45:30Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2016-06 | |
dc.description.abstract | Over the last 5 million years, the global climate system has evolved toward a colder mean state,
marked by large-amplitude oscillations in continental ice volume. Equatorward expansion of polar waters
and strengthening temperature gradients have been detected. However, the response of the mid latitudes
and high latitudes of the Southern Hemisphere is not well documented, despite the potential importance for
climate feedbacks including sea ice distribution and low-high latitude heat transport. Here we reconstruct the
Pliocene-Pleistocene history of both sea surface and Antarctic Intermediate Water (AAIW) temperatures on
orbital time scales from Deep Sea Drilling Project Site 593 in the Tasman Sea, southwest Pacific. We confirm
overall Pliocene-Pleistocene cooling trends in both the surface ocean and AAIW, although the patterns are
complex. The Pliocene is warmer than modern, but our data suggest an equatorward displacement of the
subtropical front relative to present and a poleward displacement of the subantarctic front of the Antarctic
Circumpolar Current (ACC). Two main intervals of cooling, from ~3 Ma and ~1.5 Ma, are coeval with cooling
and ice sheet expansion noted elsewhere and suggest that equatorward expansion of polar water masses
also characterized the southwest Pacific through the Pliocene-Pleistocene. However, the observed trends in
sea surface temperature and AAIW temperature are not identical despite an underlying link to the ACC, and
intervals of unusual surface ocean warmth (~2 Ma) and large-amplitude variability in AAIW temperatures
(from ~1 Ma) highlight complex interactions between equatorward displacements of fronts associated with
the ACC and/or varying poleward heat transport from the subtropics. | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | The new data presented here are stored
at the NOAA-National Climatic Data
Center (NCDC) paleoclimate repository
(available at https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/
paleo/study/20225). This work
was supported by the UK Natural
Environment Research Council (awards
NE/I027703/1 and IP-1339-1112 to E.L.M.
and NE/I024372/1 to S.K.) and a Philip
Leverhulme Prize (awarded to E.L.M.).
This work was also funded (in part) by
The European Research Council (grant
2010-NEWLOG ADG-267931 (awarded to
H.E.). We thank Jessica Bownes, Martin
West, Benjamin Petrick, Joanne
Menegazzo, Hilary Sloane, and James
Rolfe for the laboratory support and
analytical assistance. We thank David
Evans and Stella Woodard for their
discussions, and two anonymous
reviewers for providing valuable comments
to improve the manuscript. This
research used samples provided by the
Integrated Ocean Drilling Program
(IODP), and we would like to thank the
Kochi IODP Core Center Repository for
the help with core sampling. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Vol. 31, pp. 895 - 913 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1002/2016PA002954 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/27662 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Wiley & American Geophysical Union (AGU) | en_GB |
dc.rights | ©2016. The Authors.
This is an open access article under the
terms of the Creative Commons
Attribution License, which permits use,
distribution and reproduction in any
medium, provided the original work is
properly cited. | en_GB |
dc.title | Pliocene-Pleistocene evolution of sea surface and intermediate water temperatures from the southwest Pacific | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2017-05-23T13:45:30Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0883-8305 | |
dc.description | This is the final version of the article. Available from the publisher via the DOI in this record. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.journal | Paleoceanography | en_GB |