Abrupt changes in the southern extent of North Atlantic Deep Water during Dansgaard-Oeschger events

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 950-954

  Gottschalk, Julia ^a   Skinner, Luke C ^a   Misra, Sambuddha ^a   Waelbroeck, Claire ^b   Menviel, Laurie ^c,d   Timmermann, Axel ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^d ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CLIMATE VARIATION; DEEP WATER; INTERSTADIAL; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; SUBANTARCTIC REGION; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

FORAMINIFERA;

EID: 84948400226     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo2558     Document Type: Article

References (37)

1. Völker, A. H. J. et al. Global distribution of centennial-scale records for Marine Isotope Stage (MIS) 3: A database. Quat. Sci. Rev. 21, 1185-1212 (2002).
2. Dansgaard,W. et al. Evidence for general instability of past climate from a 250-kyr ice-core record. Nature 364, 218-220 (1993).
3. Ganopolski, A., Rahmstorf, S. Rapid changes of glacial climate simulated in a coupled climate model. Nature 409, 153-158 (2001).
4. EPICA Community Members. One-to-one coupling of glacial climate variability in Greenland and Antarctica. Nature 444, 195-198 (2006).
5. Broecker,W. S., Bond, G., Klas, M., Bonani, G.,Wolfli,W. A salt oscillator in the glacial Atlantic 1. The concept. Paleoceanography 5, 469-477 (1990).
6. Lynch-Stieglitz, J. et al. Muted change in Atlantic overturning circulation over some glacial-aged Heinrich events. Nature Geosci. 7, 144-150 (2014).
7. Menviel, L., Timmermann, A., Friedrich, T., England, M. H. Hindcasting the continuum of Dansgaard-Oeschger variability: Mechanisms, patterns and timing. Clim. Past 10, 63-77 (2014).
8. North Greenland Ice Core Project Members. High-resolution record of Northern Hemisphere climate extending into the last interglacial period. Nature 431, 147-151 (2004).
9. Skinner, L. C., Elderfield, H., Hall, M. in Ocean Circulation: Mechanisms and Impacts (eds Schmittner, A., Chiang, J. C. H., Hemming, S. R.) 197-208 (Geophysical Monograph Series, American Geophysical Union, 2007).
10. Deplazes, G. et al. Links between tropical rainfall and North Atlantic climate during the last glacial period. Nature Geosci. 6, 213-217 (2013).
11. Stocker, T. F., Johnsen, S. J. A minimum thermodynamic model for the bipolar seesaw. Paleoceanography 18, 1087 (2003).
12. Schmittner, A., Saenko, O. A.,Weaver, A. J. Coupling of the hemispheres in observations and simulations of glacial climate change. Quat. Sci. Rev. 22, 659-671 (2003).
13. Timmermann, A., Gildor, H., Schulz, M., Tziperman, E. Coherent resonant millennial-scale climate oscillations triggered by massive meltwater pulses. J. Clim. 16, 2569-2585 (2003).
14. Skinner, L. C., Fallon, S.,Waelbroeck, C., Michel, E., Barker, S. Ventilation of the deep Southern Ocean and deglacial CO2 rise. Science 328, 1147-1151 (2010).
15. Gottschalk, J., Skinner, L. C.,Waelbroeck, C. Contribution of seasonal sub-Antarctic surface water variability to millennial-scale changes in atmospheric CO2 over the last deglaciation and Marine Isotope Stage 3. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 411, 87-99 (2015).
16. Yu, J., Elderfield, H., Piotrowski, A. M. Seawater carbonate ion-13C systematics and application to glacial-interglacial North Atlantic ocean circulation. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 271, 209-220 (2008).
17. Yu, J., Elderfield, H. Benthic foraminiferal B/Ca ratios reflect deep water carbonate saturation state. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 258, 73-86 (2007).
18. Berger,W. H. Planktonic foraminifera: Selective solution and paleoclimatic interpretation. Deep-Sea Res. I 15, 31-43 (1968).
19. Barker, S., Diz, P. Timing of the descent into the last ice age determined by the bipolar seesaw. Paleoceanography 29, 489-507 (2014).
20. Charles, C. D., Lynch-Stieglitz, J., Ninnemann, U. S., Fairbanks, R. G. Climate connections between the hemisphere revealed by deep sea sediment core/ice core correlations. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 142, 19-27 (1996).
21. Piotrowski, A. M., Goldstein, S. L., Hemming, S. R., Fairbanks, R. G. Temporal relationships of carbon cycling and ocean circulation at glacial boundaries. Science 307, 1933-1938 (2005).
22. Hodell, D. A., Charles, C. D., Sierro, F. J. Late Pleistocene evolution of the ocean's carbonate system. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 192, 109-124 (2001).
23. Hemming, S. R. Heinrich events: Massive late Pleistocene detritus layers of the North Atlantic and their global climate imprint. Rev. Geophys. 42, RG1005 (2004).
24. Timmermann, A., Krebs, U., Justino, F., Goosse, H., Ivanochko, T. Mechanisms for millennial-scale global synchronization during the last glacial period. Paleoceanography 20, PA4008 (2005).
25. Goodman, P. J. Thermohaline adjustment and advection in an OGCM. J. Phys. Oceanogr. 31, 1477-1497 (2001).
26. Dong, B.-W., Sutton, R. T. Adjustment of the coupled ocean-atmosphere system to a sudden change in the Thermohaline Circulation. Geophys. Res. Lett. 29, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2002GL015229 (2002).
27. Ahn, J., Brook, E. J. Siple Dome ice reveals two modes of millennial CO2 change during the last ice age. Nature Commun. 5, 3723 (2014).
28. Schmittner, A., Brook, E. J., Ahn, J. in Ocean Circulation: Mechanisms and Impacts Vol. 173 (eds Schmittner, A., Chiang, J. C. H., Hemming, S. R.) 209-246 (GeophysicalMonograph Series, American Geophysical Union, 2007).
29. Menviel, L., England, M. H., Meissner, K. J., Mouchet, A., Yu, J. Atlantic-Pacific seesaw and its role in outgassing CO2 during Heinrich events. Paleoceanography 29, 58-70 (2014).
30. Köhler, P., Joos, F., Gerber, S., Knutti, R. Simulated changes in vegetation distribution, land carbon storage, and atmospheric CO2 in response to a collapse of the North Atlantic thermohaline circulation. Clim. Dynam. 25, 689-708 (2005).
31. Reimer, P. J. et al. IntCal13 and Marine13 radiocarbon age calibration curves 0-50,000 years cal BP. Radiocarbon 55, 1869-1887 (2013).
32. Barker, S. et al. Interhemispheric Atlantic seesaw response during the last deglaciation. Nature 457, 1097-1102 (2009).
33. Lewis, E.,Wallace, D.W. R. Program developed for CO2 system calculations (Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, US Dept. of Energy, 1998).
34. Le, J., Shackleton, N. J. Carbonate dissolution fluctuations in the western equatorial Pacific during the late Quaternary. Paleoceanography 7, 21-42 (1992).
35. Jouzel, J. et al. Orbital and millennial Antarctic climate variability over the past 800,000 years. Science 317, 793-796 (2007).
36. Veres, D. et al. The Antarctic ice core chronology (AICC2012): An optimized multi-parameter and multi-site dating approach for the last 120 thousand years. Clim. Past 9, 1733-1748 (2013).
37. Ninnemann, U. S., Charles, C. D., Hodell, D. A. in Mechanisms of Global Climate Change at Millennial Time Scales Vol. 112 (eds Clark, P. U.,Webb, R. S., Keigwin, L. D.) 99-112 (American Geophysical Union, 1999).