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author Ziegler, Martin
Nürnberg, Dirk
Karas, Cyrus
Tiedemann, Ralf
Lourens, Lucas Joost
author_facet Ziegler, Martin
Nürnberg, Dirk
Karas, Cyrus
Tiedemann, Ralf
Lourens, Lucas Joost
collection Datos científicos de ciencias marinas y ambientales
contents Palaeoclimate records and numerical model simulations indicate that changes in tropical and subtropical sea surface temperatures and in the annual average position of the intertropical convergence zone are linked to high-latitude climate changes on millennial to glacial-interglacial timescales. It has recently been suggested that cooling in the high latitudes associated with abrupt climate-change events is evident primarily during the northern hemisphere winter, implying increased seasonality at these times. However, it is unclear whether such a seasonal bias also exists for the low latitudes. Here we analyse the Mg/Ca ratios of surface-dwelling foraminifera to reconstruct sea surface temperatures in the northeastern Gulf of Mexico for the past 300,000 years. We suggest that sea surface temperatures are controlled by the migration of the northern boundary of the Atlantic Warm Pool, and hence the position of the intertropical convergence zone during boreal summer, and are relatively insensitive to winter conditions. Our results suggest that summer Atlantic Warm Pool expansion is primarily affected by glacial-interglacial variability and low-latitude summer insolation. Because a clear signature of rapid climate-change events, such as the Younger Dryas cold event, is lacking in our record, we conclude that high-latitude events seem to influence only the winter Caribbean climate conditions, consistent with the hypothesis of extreme northern-hemisphere seasonality during abrupt cooling events.
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spellingShingle Paleorecords from MD02-2575 (Figure 2)
Ziegler, Martin
Nürnberg, Dirk
Karas, Cyrus
Tiedemann, Ralf
Lourens, Lucas Joost
AGE; Calculated; CALYPSO; Calypso Corer; DEPTH, sediment/rock; De Soto Canyon; Globigerinoides ruber white, Magnesium/Calcium ratio; Globigerinoides ruber white, δ18O; ICP-OES, Inductively coupled plasma - optical emission spectrometry; IMAGES; IMAGES IX - PAGE; International Marine Global Change Study; Marion Dufresne (1995); Mass spectrometer, Finnigan, MAT 252; MD022575; MD02-2575; MD127; Sea surface temperature, annual mean; Uvigerina peregrina, δ18O
Palaeoclimate records and numerical model simulations indicate that changes in tropical and subtropical sea surface temperatures and in the annual average position of the intertropical convergence zone are linked to high-latitude climate changes on millennial to glacial-interglacial timescales. It has recently been suggested that cooling in the high latitudes associated with abrupt climate-change events is evident primarily during the northern hemisphere winter, implying increased seasonality at these times. However, it is unclear whether such a seasonal bias also exists for the low latitudes. Here we analyse the Mg/Ca ratios of surface-dwelling foraminifera to reconstruct sea surface temperatures in the northeastern Gulf of Mexico for the past 300,000 years. We suggest that sea surface temperatures are controlled by the migration of the northern boundary of the Atlantic Warm Pool, and hence the position of the intertropical convergence zone during boreal summer, and are relatively insensitive to winter conditions. Our results suggest that summer Atlantic Warm Pool expansion is primarily affected by glacial-interglacial variability and low-latitude summer insolation. Because a clear signature of rapid climate-change events, such as the Younger Dryas cold event, is lacking in our record, we conclude that high-latitude events seem to influence only the winter Caribbean climate conditions, consistent with the hypothesis of extreme northern-hemisphere seasonality during abrupt cooling events.
title Paleorecords from MD02-2575 (Figure 2)
topic AGE; Calculated; CALYPSO; Calypso Corer; DEPTH, sediment/rock; De Soto Canyon; Globigerinoides ruber white, Magnesium/Calcium ratio; Globigerinoides ruber white, δ18O; ICP-OES, Inductively coupled plasma - optical emission spectrometry; IMAGES; IMAGES IX - PAGE; International Marine Global Change Study; Marion Dufresne (1995); Mass spectrometer, Finnigan, MAT 252; MD022575; MD02-2575; MD127; Sea surface temperature, annual mean; Uvigerina peregrina, δ18O
url https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.706301