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Main Authors: McGregor, Helen V, Dima, Mihai, Fischer, Helmut W, Mulitza, Stefan
Format: Dataset Open Access
Language:en
Published: PANGAEA 2010
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.732326
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author McGregor, Helen V
Dima, Mihai
Fischer, Helmut W
Mulitza, Stefan
author_facet McGregor, Helen V
Dima, Mihai
Fischer, Helmut W
Mulitza, Stefan
collection Datos científicos de ciencias marinas y ambientales
contents Near-shore waters along the northwest African margin are characterized by coastal upwelling and represent one of the world's major upwelling regions. Sea surface temperature (SST) records from Moroccan sediment cores, extending back 2500 years, reveal anomalous and unprecedented cooling during the 20th century, which is consistent with increased upwelling. Upwelling-driven SSTs also vary out of phase with millennial-scale changes in Northern Hemisphere temperature anomalies (NHTAs) and show relatively warm conditions during the Little Ice Age and relatively cool conditions during the Medieval Warm Period. Together, these results suggest that coastal upwelling varies with NHTAs and that upwelling off northwest Africa may continue to intensify as global warming and atmospheric CO2 levels increase.
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spellingShingle Paleocoenographic investigations on sediment profile GeoB6008
McGregor, Helen V
Dima, Mihai
Fischer, Helmut W
Mulitza, Stefan
Center for Marine Environmental Sciences; GeoB6008-1; GeoB6008-2; Gravity corer (Kiel type); M45/5a; MARUM; Meteor (1986); MUC; MultiCorer; PACLIVA; Patterns of Climate Variability in the North Atlantic; SL
Near-shore waters along the northwest African margin are characterized by coastal upwelling and represent one of the world's major upwelling regions. Sea surface temperature (SST) records from Moroccan sediment cores, extending back 2500 years, reveal anomalous and unprecedented cooling during the 20th century, which is consistent with increased upwelling. Upwelling-driven SSTs also vary out of phase with millennial-scale changes in Northern Hemisphere temperature anomalies (NHTAs) and show relatively warm conditions during the Little Ice Age and relatively cool conditions during the Medieval Warm Period. Together, these results suggest that coastal upwelling varies with NHTAs and that upwelling off northwest Africa may continue to intensify as global warming and atmospheric CO2 levels increase.
title Paleocoenographic investigations on sediment profile GeoB6008
topic Center for Marine Environmental Sciences; GeoB6008-1; GeoB6008-2; Gravity corer (Kiel type); M45/5a; MARUM; Meteor (1986); MUC; MultiCorer; PACLIVA; Patterns of Climate Variability in the North Atlantic; SL
url https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.732326