DOCSLIB.ORG

Glacial Fluctuations of the Indian Monsoon and Their Relationship With

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Glacial Fluctuations of the Indian Monsoon and Their Relationship With EGU Journal Logos (RGB) Open Access Open Access Open Access Advances in Annales Nonlinear Processes Geosciences Geophysicae in Geophysics Open Access Open Access Natural Hazards Natural Hazards and Earth System and Earth System Sciences Sciences Discussions Open Access Open Access Atmospheric Atmospheric Chemistry Chemistry and Physics and Physics Discussions Open Access Open Access Atmospheric Atmospheric Measurement Measurement Techniques Techniques Discussions Open Access Open Access Biogeosciences Biogeosciences Discussions Open Access Open Access Clim. Past, 9, 2135–2151, 2013 Climate www.clim-past.net/9/2135/2013/ Climate doi:10.5194/cp-9-2135-2013 of the Past of the Past © Author(s) 2013. CC Attribution 3.0 License. Discussions Open Access Open Access Earth System Earth System Dynamics Dynamics Discussions Glacial fluctuations of the Indian monsoon and their relationship Open Access with North Atlantic climate: new data and modellingGeoscientific experiments Geoscientific Open Access Instrumentation Instrumentation C. Marzin1,*, N. Kallel2, M. Kageyama1, J.-C. Duplessy3, and P. Braconnot1 Methods and Methods and 1Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement/IPSL, CEA-CNRS-UVSQ – UMR8212,Data Systems CE Saclay, l’Orme des Data Systems Merisiers, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France Discussions Open Access 2Université de Sfax, Faculté des Sciences, Laboratoire GEOGLOB, BP 802, 3038 Sfax, Tunisia Open Access 3 Geoscientific Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement/IPSL, CEA-CNRS-UVSQ – UMR8212,Geoscientific Bâtiment 12, Parc du CNRS, 91198 Gif sur Yvette cedex, France Model Development * Model Development now at: Met Office, Exeter, UK Discussions Correspondence to: C. Marzin (charline.marzin@metoffice.gov.uk) Open Access Open Access Received: 31 July 2012 – Published in Clim. Past Discuss.: 18 December 2012 Hydrology and Hydrology and Revised: 30 April 2013 – Accepted: 30 July 2013 – Published: 12 September 2013 Earth System Earth System Sciences Sciences Abstract. Several paleoclimate records such as from Chinese events. Additional sensitivity experiments are produced with Discussions Open Access loess, speleothems or upwelling indicators in marine sedi- the LMDZ atmospheric model to analyse the teleconnectionOpen Access ments present large variations of the Asian monsoon system mechanisms between the North Atlantic and the Indian mon- Ocean Science during the last glaciation. Here, we present a new record from soon. The changes overOcean the tropical Science Atlantic are shown to the northern Andaman Sea (core MD77-176) which shows be essential in triggering perturbations of the subtropical jet Discussions the variations of the hydrological cycle of the Bay of Bengal. over Africa and Eurasia, that in turn affect the intensity of The high-resolution record of surface water δ18O dominantly the Indian monsoon. These relationships are also found to Open Access reflects salinity changes and displays large millennial-scale be valid in additional coupled model simulationsOpen Access in which oscillations over the period 40 000 to 11 000 yr BP. Their tim- the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) is Solid Earth ing and sequence suggests that events of high (resp. low) forced to resume. Solid Earth salinity in the Bay of Bengal, i.e. weak (resp. strong) In- Discussions dian monsoon, correspond to cold (resp. warm) events in the North Atlantic and Arctic, as documented by the Green- land ice core record. We use the IPSL_CM4 Atmosphere- 1 Introduction Open Access Open Access Ocean coupled General Circulation Model to study the pro- The Cryosphere cesses that could explain the teleconnection between the In- During the last glaciation,The Cryosphere the presence of large ice sheets dian monsoon and the North Atlantic climate. We first anal- and reduced atmospheric CO2 concentration resulted in a Discussions yse a numerical experiment in which such a rapid event in drier climate and weaker monsoon systems over Asia, as the North Atlantic is obtained under glacial conditions by in- observed in several paleoclimate records. Modelling exper- creasing the freshwater flux in the North Atlantic, which re- iments (e.g. Yanase and Abe-Ouchi, 2007) have shown that a sults in a reduction of the intensity of the Atlantic meridional reduction in moisture transport resulted in less precipitation overturning circulation. This freshwater hosing results in a over East Asia at the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM, 21 000 weakening of the Indian monsoon rainfall and circulation. years ago). Results from the Paleoclimate Modeling Inter- The changes in the continental runoff and local hydrological comparison Project Phase 2 (PMIP2) indicate that the Indian cycle are responsible for an increase in salinity in the Bay monsoon rainfall was reduced in all models in the LGM ex- −1 of Bengal. This therefore compares favourably with the new periments (by as much as 1.7 mm day , Braconnot et al., sea water δ18O record presented here and the hypothesis of 2007) due to prescribed LGM ice sheets and atmospheric synchronous cold North Atlantic and weak Indian monsoon CO2 concentration conditions (differences in orbital forcing are small). Published by Copernicus Publications on behalf of the European Geosciences Union. 2136 C. Marzin et al.: Indian monsoon and North Atlantic abrupt climate change However, conditions prevailing during the LGM are not tions related to the abrupt climate changes of the last glacial representative of the whole glaciation. The climate of the period are not well understood, as underlined in the review last glaciation was characterized by rapid climate changes in by Clement and Peterson (2008). The teleconnection mecha- the North Atlantic/Greenland region associated to the Hein- nisms explaining the correlative rapid climate variations be- rich and Dansgaard–Oeschger (D–O) events (Heinrich, 1988; tween the North Atlantic and the Indian monsoon region in Bond et al., 1992; Broecker et al., 1992; Dansgaard et al., the past have been investigated through modelling experi- 1993; Grootes et al., 1993; Meese et al., 1997). Correlative ments mostly under present-day climate conditions (Vellinga climate changes have been identified in high-resolution cli- and Wood, 2002; Zhang and Delworth, 2005; Lu and Dong, mate records from areas as distant as Santa Barbara Basin 2008). Zhang and Delworth (2005) analysed the tropical re- (Behl and Kennett, 1996), western and southern Europe sponse to a weakened AMOC and suggested that the Indian (Thouveny et al., 1994; Allen et al., 1999), Socotra Island monsoon is weakened due to a weakening of the Walker cir- in the Arabian Sea (Burns et al., 2003), China (Wang et al., culation in the southern tropical Pacific. Lu and Dong (2008) 2001) and Antarctica (EPICA Community Members, 2006). found that an atmospheric teleconnection with the eastern The abrupt changes in the North Atlantic climate have been and central North Pacific and an atmosphere–ocean interac- associated with changes in the Atlantic meridional overturn- tion in the tropical North Pacific play the most important role ing circulation (AMOC) (McManus et al., 1999; Elliot et al., for modulating the strength of the Indian monsoon. Using a 2002; McManus et al., 2004; Stocker and Johnsen, 2003). model of intermediate complexity, Jin et al. (2007) also sug- The Asian monsoon, which is sensitive to orbitally con- gest that the Asian monsoon circulation is weakened during trolled changes of insolation (Xiao et al., 1999; Rousseau Heinrich events of the last glacial age. and Kukla, 2000) also varied on millennial timescales as In addition, several studies have analysed the relationship shown by speleothem (Wang et al., 2001) and marine sed- between a warm phase of the North Atlantic Multidecadal iment (Altabet et al., 2002) records. The Indian monsoon Oscillation (AMO) and a strong Indian monsoon (Zhang and has also been suggested to vary on these timescales. Kudrass Delworth, 2006; Goswami et al., 2006; Lu et al., 2006; Li et al. (2001) present a record from the northern Bay of Bengal and Harrison, 2008; Feng and Hu, 2008). Using observa- which shows large hydrological perturbations at a millennial tions, Goswami et al. (2006) and Feng and Hu (2008) pro- timescale comparable to the North Atlantic. They establish pose a link between the North Atlantic surface temperature their chronology with the Toba ash marker and by assuming and the Indian monsoon intensity through a physical mecha- that Dansgaard–Oeschger cycles, as described by the GISP2 nism affecting the meridional gradient of upper tropospheric δ18O record (Grootes et al., 1993), are anti-correlated with temperature between the Tibetan Plateau and the tropical their δ18O record from the Bay of Bengal. The Bay of Ben- Indian Ocean. This meridional gradient of temperature has gal, which receives the outflow of major rivers draining the been shown to be an indicator of the timing and intensity of Himalayan mountains and the Indian subcontinent, is very the summer monsoon season (He et al., 2003; Goswami and sensitive to changes in the hydrological cycle and continen- Xavier, 2005). At the interannual timescale, Ding and Wang tal runoff in South Asia (Prell et al., 1980; Duplessy, 1982). (2005) show that fluctuations of the Indian monsoon can Here, we have measured the surface water oxygen iso- be connected to the variability of the Northern Hemisphere tope composition, which we interpret as salinity variations, mid-latitude summer circulation, which is strongest along recorded
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Neanderthal Extinction by Competitive Exclusion William E
    Neanderthal Extinction by Competitive Exclusion William E. Banks, Francesco d’Errico, A. Townsend Peterson, M. Kageyama, Sima Adriana, M. F. Sánchez Goñi To cite this version: William E. Banks, Francesco d’Errico, A. Townsend Peterson, M. Kageyama, Sima Adriana, et al.. Neanderthal Extinction by Competitive Exclusion. PLoS ONE, Public Library of Science, 2008, 3 (12), pp.e3972. 10.1371/journal.pone.0003972. halshs-00453393 HAL Id: halshs-00453393 https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00453393 Submitted on 28 Oct 2020 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. Neanderthal Extinction by Competitive Exclusion William E. Banks1*, Francesco d’Errico1,2, A. Townsend Peterson3, Masa Kageyama4, Adriana Sima4, Maria-Fernanda Sa´nchez-Gon˜ i5 1 Institut de Pre´histoire et de Ge´ologie du Quaternaire, UMR 5199-PACEA, Universite´ Bordeaux 1, CNRS, Talence, France, 2 Institute for Human Evolution, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, 3 Natural History Museum and Biodiversity Research Center, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America, 4 Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement/IPSL, UMR 1572, CEA/CNRS/UVSQ, CE Saclay, L’Orme des Merisiers, Gif-sur-Yvette, France, 5 EPHE, UMR5805-EPOC, Universite´ Bordeaux 1, CNRS, Talence, France Abstract Background: Despite a long history of investigation, considerable debate revolves around whether Neanderthals became extinct because of climate change or competition with anatomically modern humans (AMH).
    [Show full text]
  • Tropical Climate and Vegetation Cover During Heinrich Event 1: Simulations with Coupled Climate- Vegetation Models
    Tropical climate and vegetation cover during Heinrich event 1: Simulations with coupled climate- vegetation models Dissertation zur Erlangung des akademischen Grades eines Doktors der Naturwissenschaften Dr. rer. nat. im Fachbereich 5 (Geowissenschaften) der Universität Bremen vorgelegt von Dian Noor Handiani Bremen, Oktober 2012 Erklärung Name: Dian Noor Handiani Anschrift: Woltmershauser straße 464, 28197 Bremen, Deutschland Hiermit versichere ich, dass ich 1. die Arbeit ohne unerlaubte fremde Hilfe angefertigt habe, 2. keine anderen als die von mir angegebenen Quellen und Hilfsmittel benutzt habe und 3. die den benutzten Werken wörtlich oder inhaltlich entnommenen Stellen als solche kenntlich gemacht habe. Bremen, Oktober 2012 (Unterschrift) Gutachter Prof. Dr. Michael Schulz Prof. Dr. Michal Kucera Promotionskolloquium: 20.12.2012 Mitglieder der Kommission: Herr Prof. Dr. Michael Schulz Herr Prof. Dr. Michal Kucera Herr Prof. Dr. Gerold Wefer Frau Prof. Dr. Gesine Mollenhauer Frau Dr. Lydie Dupont Frau Annegret Krandick Table of Content Acknowledgements i Summary iii Zusammenfassung v 1 Introduction 1 1.1 Motivation of study ………………………………………………………………… 1 1.2 Tropical climate and vegetation in the Heinrich events ……………….......... 3 1.3 Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) ………………………. 6 1.4 Research objectives ………………………………………………………………… 9 1.5 Research approach and chapter outline ………………………………………… 10 2 Methodology 11 2.1 The UVic ESCM ……………………………………………………………………. 11 2.1.1 The atmospheric model …………………………………………………….. 11 2.1.2 The ocean and sea-ice model ……………………………………………… 13 2.1.3 The land surface and dynamic vegetation models …………………….. 14 2.2 Plant functional types and biomes ………………………………………………. 15 2.3 A scheme of biome distribution estimation …………………………………….. 16 2.4 Experimental design ………………………………………………………………. 17 3 Tropical climate and vegetation changes during Heinrich event 1: 19 a model-data comparison 3.1 Abstract ……………………………………………………………………………… 19 3.2 Introduction ………………………………………………………………………….
    [Show full text]
  • The Last Glacial Maximum and Heinrich Event I on the Iberian Peninsula: a Regional Climate Modelling Study for Understanding Human Settlement Patterns
    Geophysical Research Abstracts Vol. 20, EGU2018-7848, 2018 EGU General Assembly 2018 © Author(s) 2018. CC Attribution 4.0 license. The Last Glacial Maximum and Heinrich Event I on the Iberian Peninsula: A regional climate modelling study for understanding human settlement patterns Patrick Ludwig (1,2), Yaping Shao (2), Martin Kehl (3), and Gerd-Christian Weniger (4) (1) Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research, Department Troposphere Research, Karlsruhe, Germany ([email protected]), (2) Institute for Geophysics and Meteorology, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany, (3) Institute of Geography, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany, (4) Neanderthal Museum, Mettmann, Germany The dating and spatial distribution of archaeological sites on the Iberian Peninsula (IP) suggest a poor occupation of the Southern IP by hunter-gatherers after the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) and during Heinrich event 1 (H1) compared to Northern Iberia. The H1 was a period of cold and arid climate conditions and is assumed to have played an important role in the population dynamics in Europe at the end of the Pleistocene. In this study, the potential influence of climate change on the human settlement patterns on the IP is analysed based on regional paleoclimate modelling. The WRF model is used to simulate continuous time slices of 30 years of climate con- ditions representative for both the LGM and H1 at high spatial resolution (12.5 km). The model results indicate that, apart from a general decrease in temperature, a considerable decrease in precipitation over the southern IP occurred during the H1, that agrees with the available climate proxy data.
    [Show full text]
  • Weakening and Strengthening of the Indian Monsoon During Heinrich
    PUBLICATIONS Paleoceanography RESEARCH ARTICLE Weakening and strengthening of the Indian 10.1002/2013PA002509 monsoon during Heinrich events Key Points: and Dansgaard-Oeschger oscillations • Intensity of Indian monsoon is traced with geochemical and grain size Gaudenz Deplazes1, Andreas Lückge2, Jan-Berend W. Stuut3,4, Jürgen Pätzold3, Holger Kuhlmann3, analyses of sediments 3 3 1,5 • Fluvial versus aeolian sediment input Dorothée Husson , Mara Fant , and Gerald H. Haug to Arabian Sea mimics DO oscillations 1 2 • During Heinrich events the Indian Geological Institute, Department of Earth Sciences, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland, Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften monsoon weakened distinctly und Rohstoffe, Hannover, Germany, 3MARUM-Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, Bremen University, Bremen, Germany, 4NIOZ-Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Texel, The Netherlands, 5DFG-Leibniz Center for Earth Surface Process and Climate Studies, Institute for Geosciences, Potsdam University, Potsdam, Germany Supporting Information: • Readme • Figure S1 • Figure S2 Abstract The Dansgaard-Oeschger oscillations and Heinrich events described in North Atlantic sediments • Figure S3 and Greenland ice are expressed in the climate of the tropics, for example, as documented in Arabian Sea • Figure S4 sediments. Given the strength of this teleconnection, we seek to reconstruct its range of environmental • Figure S5 • Figure S6 impacts. We present geochemical and sedimentological data from core SO130-289KL from the Indus submarine slope spanning the last ~ 80 kyr. Elemental and grain size analyses consistently indicate that Correspondence to: interstadials are characterized by an increased contribution of fluvial suspension from the Indus River. In G. Deplazes, contrast, stadials are characterized by an increased contribution of aeolian dust from the Arabian Peninsula.
    [Show full text]
  • H4 Abrupt Event and Late Neanderthal Presence in Iberia
    Earth and Planetary Science Letters 258 (2007) 283–292 www.elsevier.com/locate/epsl H4 abrupt event and late Neanderthal presence in Iberia ⁎ Pierre Sepulchre a, , Gilles Ramstein a, Masa Kageyama a, Marian Vanhaeren b, Gerhard Krinner c, María-Fernanda Sánchez-Goñi d, Francesco d'Errico e,f a Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement/IPSL, UMR CNRS-CEA-UVSQ 1572, CE Saclay, L'Orme des Merisiers Bât. 701, 91191 Gif sur Yvette Cedex, France b Ethnologie Préhistorique, UMR 7041 CNRS-ArScAn, 92023 Nanterre, France c Laboratoire de Glaciologie et Géophysique de l'Environnement, CNRS-UJF Grenoble, BP 96, F-38402, Saint Martin d'Hères, France d Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Département de Géologie et Océanographie, UMR 5805 CNRS-EPOC, Université Bordeaux1, 33405 Talence, France e Institut de Préhistoire et de Géologie du Quaternaire, UMR 5199 CNRS-PACEA, Université Bordeaux1, 33405 Talence, France f Department of Anthropology, George Washington University, 2110 G Street, NW Washington, DC 20052, United States Received 15 November 2006; received in revised form 23 March 2007; accepted 23 March 2007 Available online 31 March 2007 Editor: M.L. Delaney Abstract Heinrich event 4 (H4) is well documented in the North Atlantic Ocean and the adjacent continents as a cooling event 39,000 yr before present (BP). To quantify the impact of this event with respect to climate and vegetation over the Iberian Peninsula, we perform numerical experiments using a high-resolution general circulation model forced by sea surface temperatures before and during H4. Our model simulates an expansion of aridity over the peninsula during H4, a desertification of the south, and a replacement of arboreal by herbaceous plants in the north, all of which are in agreement with contemporaneous pollen sequences from marine cores located off the Iberian Peninsula.
    [Show full text]
  • The Connected Isotopic Water Cycle in the Community Earth System Model Version 1
    RESEARCH ARTICLE The Connected Isotopic Water Cycle in the Community 10.1029/2019MS001663 Earth System Model Version 1 Key Points: E. Brady1 , S. Stevenson2 , D. Bailey1 , Z. Liu3, D. Noone4 , J. Nusbaumer5 , • An isotope‐enabled version of the 1 6 1 7 8 9 Community Earth System Model B. L. Otto‐Bliesner , C. Tabor , R. Tomas , T. Wong , J. Zhang , and J. Zhu (iCESM1) is now publicly available 1 2 • iCESM1 simulates the major Climate and Global Dynamics Laboratory, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, USA, Bren School observed features of δ18O and δD of Environmental Science & Management, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA, 3Department of Geography, over the late twentieth century The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA, 4College of Earth, Ocean, & Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State • iCESM1 is useful for both modern University, Corvallis, OR, USA, 5NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and Center for Climate Systems Research, climate and paleoclimate 6 applications Columbia University, New York, NY, USA, Department of Geosciences, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA, 7Department of Computer Science, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA, 8Center for Nonlinear Studies, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, USA, 9Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA Correspondence to: S. Stevenson, [email protected] Abstract Because of the pervasive role of water in the Earth system, the relative abundances of stable isotopologues of water are valuable for understanding atmospheric, oceanic, and biospheric processes, Citation: and for interpreting paleoclimate proxy reconstructions. Isotopologues are transported by both large‐scale Brady, E., Stevenson, S., Bailey, D., Liu, and turbulent flows, and the ratio of heavy to light isotopologues changes due to fractionation that can Z., Noone, D., Nusbaumer, J., et al (2019).
    [Show full text]
  • Millennial‐Scale Sea Surface Temperature Changes in the Eastern Mediterranean (Nile River Delta Region) Over the Last 27,000 Years Isla S
    PALEOCEANOGRAPHY, VOL. 25, PA1208, doi:10.1029/2009PA001740, 2010 Click Here for Full Article Millennial‐scale sea surface temperature changes in the eastern Mediterranean (Nile River Delta region) over the last 27,000 years Isla S. Castañeda,1 Enno Schefuß,2 Jürgen Pätzold,2,3 Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté,1 Syee Weldeab,4 and Stefan Schouten1 Received 28 January 2009; revised 17 August 2009; accepted 7 October 2009; published 10 March 2010. k′ [1] In this study we utilize two organic geochemical proxies, the U37 index and TEX86,toexaminepastsea surface temperatures (SST) from a site located near the Nile River Delta in the eastern Mediterranean (EM) k′ Sea. The U37 and TEX86 records generally are in agreement and indicate SST ranges of 14°C–26°C and 14°C–28°C, respectively, during the last 27 cal ka. During the Holocene, TEX86‐based SST estimates are k′ usually higher than U37‐based SST estimates, which is likely due to seasonal differences between the timing of the haptophyte and crenarchaeota blooms in the EM and is related to the onset of the modern flow regime of the Nile River. Both records show that SST varied on centennial to millennial timescales in response to global climate events, i.e., cooling during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM), Heinrich event 1 (H1), and the Younger Dryas (YD) and warming during the Bølling‐Allerød and in the early Holocene during deposition of sapropel S1. The H1 cooling was particularly severe and is marked by a drop in SST of ∼4.5°C in comparison to pre‐H1 SST, with temperatures >1°C cooler than during the LGM.
    [Show full text]
  • Heinrich Events Show Two-Stage Climate Response in Transient Glacial Simulations
    Clim. Past, 15, 153–168, 2019 https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-15-153-2019 © Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License. Heinrich events show two-stage climate response in transient glacial simulations Florian Andreas Ziemen, Marie-Luise Kapsch, Marlene Klockmann, and Uwe Mikolajewicz Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Bundesstraße 53, 20146 Hamburg, Germany Correspondence: Florian Andreas Ziemen (fl[email protected]) Received: 23 February 2018 – Discussion started: 21 March 2018 Revised: 14 December 2018 – Accepted: 22 December 2018 – Published: 24 January 2019 Abstract. Heinrich events are among the dominant modes 1 Introduction of glacial climate variability. During these events, massive iceberg armadas were released by the Laurentide Ice Sheet Heinrich events (Heinrich, 1988), one of the two dominant and sailed across the Atlantic where they melted and re- modes of glacial climate variability, are associated with a leased freshwater, as well as detritus, that formed character- reorganization of the North Atlantic Ocean circulation (see istic layers on the seafloor. Heinrich events are known for Clement and Peterson, 2008, for a review). They are quasi- cold climates in the North Atlantic region and global climate periodic with a recurrence period of about 7 kyr and fall into changes. We study these events in a fully coupled complex the Dansgaard–Oeschger cold periods (stadials). In Hein- ice sheet–climate model with synchronous coupling between rich events, iceberg armadas released from the Laurentide Ice ice sheets and oceans. The ice discharges occur as an inter- Sheet spread a characteristic trace of detritus from the Hud- nal variability of the model with a recurrence period of 5 kyr, son Strait area across the North Atlantic seafloor.
    [Show full text]
  • Orbital and Millennial-Scale Precipitation Changes in Brazil from Speleothem Records
    Chapter 2 Orbital and Millennial-Scale Precipitation Changes in Brazil from Speleothem Records Francisco W. Cruz, Xianfeng Wang, Augusto Auler, Mathias Vuille, Stephen J. Burns, Lawrence R. Edwards, Ivo Karmann, and Hai Cheng Abstract Paleorainfall variability on orbital and millennial time scales is discussed for the last glacial period and the Holocene, based on a multi-proxy study of speleothem records from Brazil. Oxygen isotope (δ18O) records from Botuverá and Santana caves, precisely dated by U-series methods, indicate stronger summer monsoon circulation in subtropical Brazil during periods of high summer insola- tion in the southern hemisphere. In addition, variations in Mg/Ca and Sr/Ca ratios from speleothems confirm that this monsoon intensification led to an increase in the long-term mean rainfall during insolation maxima. However, they also suggest that glacial boundary conditions, especially ice volume buildup in the northern hemi- sphere, promoted an additional displacement of the monsoon system to the south, which produced rather wet conditions during the period from approximately 70 to 17 ka B.P., in particular at the height of the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM). These δ18O records, together with speleothem growth intervals from northeastern Brazil, have also revealed new insights into the influence of the northern hemi- sphere millennial-scale events on the tropical hydrological cycle in South America. This teleconnection pattern is expressed by an out-of-phase relationship between precipitation changes inferred from speleothem records in Brazil and China, partic- ularly during Heinrich events and the Younger Dryas. We argue that the pronounced hemispheric asymmetry of moisture is a reflection of the impact of meridional overturning circulation conditions on the position and intensity of the intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ).
    [Show full text]
  • Abrupt Shifts of the Sahara-Sahel Boundary During Heinrich Stadials J
    Discussion Paper | Discussion Paper | Discussion Paper | Discussion Paper | Clim. Past Discuss., 9, 119–142, 2013 www.clim-past-discuss.net/9/119/2013/ Climate doi:10.5194/cpd-9-119-2013 of the Past © Author(s) 2013. CC Attribution 3.0 License. Discussions This discussion paper is/has been under review for the journal Climate of the Past (CP). Please refer to the corresponding final paper in CP if available. Abrupt shifts of the Sahara-Sahel boundary during Heinrich Stadials J. A. Collins1, A. Govin1, S. Mulitza1, D. Heslop2, M. Zabel1, J. Hartmann3, U. Rohl¨ 1, and G. Wefer1 1MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental Sciences and Faculty of Geosciences, University of Bremen, 28359 Bremen, Germany 2Research School of Earth Sciences, The Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200, Australia 3Institute for Biogeochemistry and Marine Chemistry, University of Hamburg, Bundesstraße 55, 20146 Hamburg, Germany Received: 14 December 2012 – Accepted: 20 December 2012 – Published: 4 January 2013 Correspondence to: J. A. Collins ([email protected]) Published by Copernicus Publications on behalf of the European Geosciences Union. 119 Discussion Paper | Discussion Paper | Discussion Paper | Discussion Paper | Abstract Relict dune fields that are found at 14◦ N in the modern-day African Sahel are tes- tament to equatorward expansions of the Sahara desert during the late Pleistocene. However, difficulties of dating dune formation mean that abrupt millennial-scale climate 5 events are not always resolved in these records. High-resolution marine core studies have identified Heinrich Stadials as the dustiest periods of the last glacial, although no studies have mapped the spatio-temporal evolution of dust export from West Africa.
    [Show full text]
  • Anatomy of Heinrich Layer 1 and Its Role in the Last Deglaciation
    PUBLICATIONS Paleoceanography RESEARCH ARTICLE Anatomy of Heinrich Layer 1 and its role 10.1002/2016PA003028 in the last deglaciation Key Points: David A. Hodell1 , Joseph A. Nicholl1 , Tomaso R. R. Bontognali2, Steffan Danino3 , • Heinrich Layer 1 is represented by a 4 3 1 5 double peak in the central North Javier Dorador , Julian A. Dowdeswell , Joshua Einsle , Holger Kuhlmann , 6 1 4 Atlantic Belen Martrat , Maryline J. Mleneck-Vautravers , Francisco Javier Rodríguez-Tovar , • Best estimates for the ages of the two and Ursula Röhl5 peaks are ~16.1 (H1.1) and ~15 ka (H1.2) 1Godwin Laboratory for Palaeoclimate Research, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK, • Heinrich Event 1 cannot account for 2 3 cooling and weakened AMOC during Geological Institute and Institute of Geochemistry and Petrology, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Scott Polar Research 4 early Heinrich Stadial 1 (~20–16.1 ka) Institute, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK, Departamento de Estratigrafía y Paleontología, Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain, 5MARUM–Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany, 6Department of Environmental Chemistry, Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Supporting Information: fi • Supporting Information S1 Research (IDÆA), Spanish Council for Scienti c Research (CSIC), Barcelona, Spain • Movie S1 • Movie S2 • Figure S1 Abstract X-ray fluorescence (XRF) core scanning and X-ray computed tomography data were measured • Figure S2 every 1 mm to study the structure of Heinrich Event 1 during the last deglaciation at International Ocean • Figure S3 Discovery Program Site U1308. Heinrich Layer 1 comprises two distinct layers of ice-rafted detritus (IRD), which are rich in detrital carbonate (DC) and poor in foraminifera.
    [Show full text]
  • Catastrophic Ice Shelf Breakup As the Source of Heinrich Event Icebergs Christina L
    PALEOCEANOGRAPHY, VOL. 19, PA1004, doi:10.1029/2003PA000890, 2004 Catastrophic ice shelf breakup as the source of Heinrich event icebergs Christina L. Hulbe,1 Douglas R. MacAyeal,2 George H. Denton,3 Johan Kleman,4 and Thomas V. Lowell5 Received 31 January 2003; revised 4 August 2003; accepted 8 October 2003; published 22 January 2004. [1] Heinrich layers of the glacial North Atlantic record abrupt widespread iceberg rafting of detrital carbonate and other lithic material at the extreme-cold culminations of Bond climate cycles. Both internal (glaciologic) and external (climate) forcings have been proposed. Here we suggest an explanation for the iceberg release that encompasses external climate forcing on the basis of a new glaciological process recently witnessed along the Antarctic Peninsula: rapid disintegrations of fringing ice shelves induced by climate-controlled meltwater infilling of surface crevasses. We postulate that peripheral ice shelves, formed along the eastern Canadian seaboard during extreme cold conditions, would be vulnerable to sudden climate-driven disintegration during any climate amelioration. Ice shelf disintegration then would be the source of Heinrich event icebergs. INDEX TERMS: 3344 Meteorology and Atmospheric Dynamics: Paleoclimatology; 1827 Hydrology: Glaciology (1863); 4267 Oceanography: General: Paleoceanography; KEYWORDS: Heinrich events, ice shelf disintegration Citation: Hulbe, C. L., D. R. MacAyeal, G. H. Denton, J. Kleman, and T. V. Lowell (2004), Catastrophic ice shelf breakup as the source of Heinrich event icebergs, Paleoceanography, 19, PA1004, doi:10.1029/2003PA000890. 1. Introduction 1.2. Previously Proposed Heinrich Event Mechanisms 1.1. Signature of Heinrich Events [3] The origin of the Heinrich events remains a major [2] Six major pulses of ice-rafted detritus (IRD) mark unsolved problem in Pleistocene climatology.
    [Show full text]