Rapid global ocean-atmosphere response to Southern Ocean freshening during the last glacial
dc.contributor.author | Turney, CSM | |
dc.contributor.author | Jones, RT | |
dc.contributor.author | Phipps, SJ | |
dc.contributor.author | Thomas, Z | |
dc.contributor.author | Hogg, A | |
dc.contributor.author | Kershaw, AP | |
dc.contributor.author | Fogwill, CJ | |
dc.contributor.author | Palmer, J | |
dc.contributor.author | Bronk Ramsey, C | |
dc.contributor.author | Adolphi, F | |
dc.contributor.author | Muscheler, R | |
dc.contributor.author | Hughen, KA | |
dc.contributor.author | Staff, RA | |
dc.contributor.author | Grosvenor, M | |
dc.contributor.author | Golledge, NR | |
dc.contributor.author | Rasmussen, SO | |
dc.contributor.author | Hutchinson, DK | |
dc.contributor.author | Haberle, S | |
dc.contributor.author | Lorrey, A | |
dc.contributor.author | Boswijk, G | |
dc.contributor.author | Cooper, A | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-09-19T10:06:39Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2017-09-12 | |
dc.description.abstract | Contrasting Greenland and Antarctic temperatures during the last glacial period (115,000 to 11,650 years ago) are thought to have been driven by imbalances in the rates of formation of North Atlantic and Antarctic Deep Water (the 'bipolar seesaw'). Here we exploit a bidecadally resolved (14)C data set obtained from New Zealand kauri (Agathis australis) to undertake high-precision alignment of key climate data sets spanning iceberg-rafted debris event Heinrich 3 and Greenland Interstadial (GI) 5.1 in the North Atlantic (~30,400 to 28,400 years ago). We observe no divergence between the kauri and Atlantic marine sediment (14)C data sets, implying limited changes in deep water formation. However, a Southern Ocean (Atlantic-sector) iceberg rafted debris event appears to have occurred synchronously with GI-5.1 warming and decreased precipitation over the western equatorial Pacific and Atlantic. An ensemble of transient meltwater simulations shows that Antarctic-sourced salinity anomalies can generate climate changes that are propagated globally via an atmospheric Rossby wave train.A challenge for testing mechanisms of past climate change is the precise correlation of palaeoclimate records. Here, through climate modelling and the alignment of terrestrial, ice and marine (14)C and (10)Be records, the authors show that Southern Ocean freshwater hosing can trigger global change. | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | This work was funded by the Australian Research Council (FL100100195, DP170104665 and SR140300001) and the Natural Environment Research Council (NE/H009922/1 and NE/H007865/1). | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Vol. 8, article 520 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1038/s41467-017-00577-6 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/29416 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Springer Nature | en_GB |
dc.relation.url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28900099 | en_GB |
dc.rights | © The Author(s) 2017. Open Access. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. | en_GB |
dc.subject | Palaeoceanography | en_GB |
dc.subject | Palaeoclimate | en_GB |
dc.title | Rapid global ocean-atmosphere response to Southern Ocean freshening during the last glacial | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2017-09-19T10:06:39Z | |
exeter.place-of-publication | England | en_GB |
dc.description | This is the final version of the article. Available from Springer Nature via the DOI in this record. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.journal | Nature Communications | en_GB |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
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