Sea ice and wind variability during the Holocene in East Antarctica: insight on middle-high latitude coupling
Sea ice and wind variability during the Holocene in East Antarctica: insight on middle-high latitude coupling
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DOI:
10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.08.007
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发表时间:
2010-12-01
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4
通讯作者:
Giraudeau, Jacques
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作者:
Denis, Delphine;Crosta, Xavier;Giraudeau, Jacques
Micropaleontological and biomarker data from two high-accumulation marine sites from the Coastal and Continental Shelf Zone (CCSZ) off East Antarctica (Adelie Land at similar to 140 degrees E and eastern Prydz Bay at similar to 77 degrees E) are used to reconstruct Holocene changes in sea ice and wind stress at the basin-wide scale. These data demonstrate congruent increase in sea-ice concentration/persistence and wind stress-related sea-surface turbulence in the two regions since 7 cal ka BP, with a particularly strong signal since 4.5-3.5 cal ka BP. Comparison of these high latitude records with sea ice and turbulence records from the southern mid-latitudes highlights distinctive climatic evolutions according to the different latitudinal bands. Sea-ice persistence and turbulence increase in East Antarctica CCSZ are opposite to sea-surface warming and sea-ice retreat recorded after 4.5-3.5 cal ka BP in the East Atlantic and Indian sector between 55 and 45 S. At the same period, paleodata suggest SST cooling in all major coastal upwelling systems of the southern hemisphere, caused by the northward transport of subpolar surface waters as a response to southern Westerlies reinforcement. We therefore propose, as suggested for the northern hemisphere, that Holocene changes in the latitudinal insolation gradient, primarily forced by obliquity and precession and amplified by sea-ice and glacial-ice expansions in the Antarctic realm, are responsible for the observed contrasted latitudinal patterns of southern latitudes. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.