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Global and African Regional Climate During the Cenozoic CHAPTER FOUR Global and African Regional Climate during the Cenozoic SARAH J. FEAKINS AND PETER B. DEMENOCAL The last 65 Ma of Earth’s history, the Cenozoic, has been a Revised tropical SST reconstructions have implications both time characterized by significant climate change. Major for local climate interpretations and for global dynamical global changes included massive tectonic reorganization, a predictions, leading to new perspectives on the nature of reduction in atmospheric pCO2 (Pagani et al., 1999; Pearson Cenozoic climate change. and Palmer, 2000), and a dramatic cooling of global climate, Third, the role of the tropics in global climate change has plunging the world from generally warm conditions into the been reconceptualized. Rather than being a passive responder repeated glacial-interglacial cycles of the ice age (Zachos to changes in the high-latitude cryosphere, tropical climate et al., 2001). Deep-sea oxygen isotope records record global variability may be at least partially decoupled from high- cooling of up to 8°C in the early Cenozoic, heralding the latitude climate. For example, there is considerable evidence development of major ice sheets on Antarctica from 35 Ma, that precessional variations in insolation may directly influ- which further intensified the global cooling trend and cul- ence the intensity of African precipitation, independent minated in cyclical Northern Hemisphere glaciation during of high-latitude climate variability (Rossignol-Strick, 1983; the past 3 Ma (figure 4.1). Many events in global tectonics Partridge et al., 1997; Denison et al., 2005). The tropics may and high latitude climate had significant effects on Ceno- even have driven global climate change. For example, ENSO zoic climate evolution. These are well described elsewhere generates global teleconnections that have been observed in (e.g., Kennett, 1995; Denton, 1999; Zachos et al., 2001) and the instrumental record (Cane and Zebiak, 1985; Cane and are summarized in figure 4.1. Clement, 1999), and evidence for tropical initiation of past In this chapter, we focus on three revolutions in climate global climate changes comes from both paleoclimate and research that have dramatically altered our perception of modeling analyses (Linsley et al., 2000; Clement et al., 2001; global and African climate. First, the discovery that large Hoerling et al., 2001; Yin and Battisti, 2001). This chapter magnitude climate events occurred abruptly, sometimes in provides a synthesis of climate data from a tropical perspec- as little as decades, has prompted high-resolution paleocli- tive that offers new insights into aspects of Cenozoic African mate reconstructions and new conceptions of climate environmental change. dynamics, revealing significant climate variability at times that were previously thought to be quiescent (e.g., the Modern African Climate Holocene). On longer timescales, high-resolution oxygen iso- tope stratigraphies have also revealed transient events in the Precipitation is the critical interannual variable in African early Cenozoic (Zachos et al., 2001). These discoveries have climate. Seasonal variations in the position of the Intertropi- revolutionized theories of climate change and demonstrated cal Convergence Zone (ITCZ) exert a significant control on the need for high-resolution reconstruction of climate vari- the seasonal pattern of precipitation maxima across much of ability on 100- to 105-year timescales. Africa. Figure 4.2 shows the major atmospheric circulation Second, recent climate studies have revealed significant regimes for average conditions in July/August and January tropical climate variability. Modern observational climate that illustrate common climatic zones and provide a basis for data have indicated that the largest mode of global interan- understanding climatic variability (Nicholson, 2000). Dis- nual climate variability is the El Niño Southern Oscillation tinct atmospheric circulation systems affect North Africa, (ENSO) in the tropical Pacific (Ropelewski and Halpert, 1987; West and Central Africa, East Africa, and southern Africa; Trenberth et al., 1998). Large amplitude tropical environ- they are separated in large part by the ITCZ. These regions mental variability has also been reconstructed in the paleo- experience characteristic patterns of interannual variability, climate record. In particular, revised estimates of tropical sea teleconnections, and surface characteristics (Janowiak, 1988; surface temperatures (SSTs) during global cool and warm Semazzi et al., 1988). events have revealed significant tropical sensitivity to global The northern coast of Africa has a Mediterranean climate climate change (e.g., Pearson et al., 2001; Lea et al., 2003). receiving winter precipitation supplied by the midlatitude 45 WWerdelin_ch4.indderdelin_ch4.indd 4455 11/13/10/13/10 110:39:480:39:48 PPMM δ18O (‰) Age Climatic Tectonic Biotic (Ma) 5 4 3 2 1 0 Events Events Events 0 N. Hemisphere Ice sheets Plt. Large mammal extinctions Panama “Great American Interchange” Plio. W. Antarctic ice sheet Seaway closes Hominids appear Asian monsoons C4 grasses expand 10 intensify E. Antarctic ice sheet Mid-Miocene Columbia River Climatic Optimum Volcanism Miocene Horses diversify 20 Tibetan Plateau uplift Antarctic Ice sheets accelerates Seals & sea lions appear Mi-1Glaciation Red Sea rifting Coral extinction Plate reorganization Late Oligocene & Andean uplift Warming Drake Passage 30 opens Large carnivores & Oligocene Tasmania-Antarctic Oi-1Glaciation Passage opens archaic mammals & Small ephemeral broad-leaved forests decline; ice sheets appear baleen whales appear Plate reorganization & 40 Reduction in seafloor spreading rates Ungulates diversify; Partial or Ephemeral primates decline Eocene Full Scale and Permanent Archaic whales appear 50 E. Eocene Climatic Optimum Late Paleocene N. Atlantic rifting & volcanism Mammals disperse Thermal Maximum Benthic extinction India-Asia contact 60 Paleocene Meteor Impact K-T Mass Extinctions 70 0° 4° 8° 12° Temperature (°C)* FIGURE 4.1 Global deep-sea oxygen isotope records for the last 65 Ma based on data compiled from more than 40 DSDP/ODP marine sites, together with some key tectonic and biotic events. The temperature scale refers to an ice-free ocean and thus only applies prior to the onset of large-scale glaciations (~35Ma). From the early Oligocene to the present, much of the oxygen isotope variability reflects changes in ice volume. Reprinted in part with permission from Zachos et al. (2001). © 2001 AAAS. westerlies (Nicholson, 2000). Interannual to interdecadal Variations in continental heating also influence the land- variability is influenced by regional and global atmospheric sea temperature contrast and strength of the monsoon on teleconnections associated with the North Atlantic Oscilla- millennial timescales (deMenocal et al., 2000; Liu et al., tion (Hurrell, 1995) and to a variable extent by ENSO 2003). Central African rainfall is also negatively correlated ( Knippertz et al., 2003). Greenland ice core data indicate that with equatorial Atlantic SSTs but positively correlated with these patterns of variability have persisted for several hun- subtropical Atlantic SSTs (Nicholson and Entekhabi, 1987; dred years (Dansgaard et al., 1993). Camberlin et al., 2001), with seasonal rainfall maxima West Africa is dominated by summer monsoonal precipi- associated with the passage of the ITCZ (figure 4.2). The tation associated with the northward migration of the ITCZ hydrogen isotopic composition of plant leaf wax biomarkers (figure 4.2). Tropical Atlantic SSTs have been shown to exert in the Congo Fan indicate that this relationship has per- primary control on the strength of West African monsoon sisted for the past 20 ka (Schefuss et al., 2005). and Sahelian precipitation at interannual to interdecadal Southern Africa has a strong precipitation gradient from timescales (Rowell et al., 1995; Giannini et al., 2003). Warm Ͼ1,000 mm per year in the east to Ͻ20 mm per year in the SST anomalies in the Gulf of Guinea reduce the land-sea west (Nicholson, 2000). Most precipitation falls in the austral temperature contrast and weaken the monsoon. Convec- summer as convective rainfall, particularly in the southeast. tion cells remain over the ocean, increasing rainfall to In the southwest, the precipitation pattern is more complex, coastal regions and decreasing rainfall to the Sahel. with rainfall maxima associated with the seasonal peak in 46 PHYSICAL AND TEMPORAL SETTING WWerdelin_ch4.indderdelin_ch4.indd 4466 11/13/10/13/10 110:39:480:39:48 PPMM January Circulation 0° 20°E 40°E 20°N 0° 20°S 40°W 20°W 0° 20°E 40°E July/August Circulation 0° 20°E 40°E 20°N 0° 20°S 40°W 20°W 0°20°E 40°E FIGURE 4.2 Schematic of the general patterns of winds, pressure, and convergence over Africa. Dotted lines indicate the ITCZ; dashed lines indicate other convergence zones. Reprinted with permission from Nicholson (2000). © 2000 Elsevier. SSTs in Benguela coastal regions. Summer heating creates low (figure 4.2). The primary moisture source is the central Indian pressure over central Africa that pulls in moisture from the Ocean via the southeasterly trade winds. Although the relative western Indian Ocean. Significant interannual variability in humidity is moderately high, precipitation in East Africa is precipitation is dominated by western Indian Ocean SSTs, low because of regional atmospheric circulation (Rodwell and with variability that is strongly related to ENSO in the Pacific Hoskins, 1996).
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