Age model, lipids, and iron/calcium-ratios of sediment core GeoB9307-3
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| author | Schefuß, Enno Kuhlmann, Holger Mollenhauer, Gesine Prange, Matthias Pätzold, Jürgen |
| author_facet | Schefuß, Enno Kuhlmann, Holger Mollenhauer, Gesine Prange, Matthias Pätzold, Jürgen |
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| contents | Hide Intense debate persists about the climatic mechanisms governing hydrologic changes in tropical and subtropical southeast Africa since the Last Glacial Maximum, about 20,000 years ago. In particular, the relative importance of atmospheric and oceanic processes is not firmly established. Southward shifts of the intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ) driven by high-latitude climate changes have been suggested as a primary forcing, whereas other studies infer a predominant influence of Indian Ocean sea surface temperatures on regional rainfall changes. To address this question, a continuous record representing an integrated signal of regional climate variability is required, but has until now been missing. Here we show that remote atmospheric forcing by cold events in the northern high latitudes appears to have been the main driver of hydro-climatology in southeast Africa during rapid climate changes over the past 17,000 years. Our results are based on a reconstruction of precipitation and river discharge changes, as recorded in a marine sediment core off the mouth of the Zambezi River, near the southern boundary of the modern seasonal ITCZ migration. Indian Ocean sea surface temperatures did not exert a primary control over southeast African hydrologic variability. Instead, phases of high precipitation and terrestrial discharge occurred when the ITCZ was forced southwards during Northern Hemisphere cold events, such as Heinrich stadial 1 (around 16,000 years ago) and the Younger Dryas (around 12,000 years ago), or when local summer insolation was high in the late Holocene, i.e., during the last 4,000 years. |
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| spellingShingle | Age model, lipids, and iron/calcium-ratios of sediment core GeoB9307-3 Schefuß, Enno Kuhlmann, Holger Mollenhauer, Gesine Prange, Matthias Pätzold, Jürgen 11; AFRIDEEP; Center for Marine Environmental Sciences; GeoB9307-3; Gravity corer (Kiel type); M63/1; MARUM; Meteor (1986); Sambesi Fan; SL Hide Intense debate persists about the climatic mechanisms governing hydrologic changes in tropical and subtropical southeast Africa since the Last Glacial Maximum, about 20,000 years ago. In particular, the relative importance of atmospheric and oceanic processes is not firmly established. Southward shifts of the intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ) driven by high-latitude climate changes have been suggested as a primary forcing, whereas other studies infer a predominant influence of Indian Ocean sea surface temperatures on regional rainfall changes. To address this question, a continuous record representing an integrated signal of regional climate variability is required, but has until now been missing. Here we show that remote atmospheric forcing by cold events in the northern high latitudes appears to have been the main driver of hydro-climatology in southeast Africa during rapid climate changes over the past 17,000 years. Our results are based on a reconstruction of precipitation and river discharge changes, as recorded in a marine sediment core off the mouth of the Zambezi River, near the southern boundary of the modern seasonal ITCZ migration. Indian Ocean sea surface temperatures did not exert a primary control over southeast African hydrologic variability. Instead, phases of high precipitation and terrestrial discharge occurred when the ITCZ was forced southwards during Northern Hemisphere cold events, such as Heinrich stadial 1 (around 16,000 years ago) and the Younger Dryas (around 12,000 years ago), or when local summer insolation was high in the late Holocene, i.e., during the last 4,000 years. |
| title | Age model, lipids, and iron/calcium-ratios of sediment core GeoB9307-3 |
| topic | 11; AFRIDEEP; Center for Marine Environmental Sciences; GeoB9307-3; Gravity corer (Kiel type); M63/1; MARUM; Meteor (1986); Sambesi Fan; SL |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.771396 |