Sea-surface temperatures of the southwest Pacific Ocean during the Last Glacial Maximum.
The southwest Pacific Ocean covers a broad range of surface-water conditions ranging from warm, salty water in the subtropical East Australian Current to fresher, cold water in the Circumpolar Current. Using a new database of planktonic foraminifera assemblages (AUSMAT-F2), we demonstrate that the m...
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ftanucanberra:oai:openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au:1885/91088 2024-01-14T10:10:03+01:00 Sea-surface temperatures of the southwest Pacific Ocean during the Last Glacial Maximum. Barrows, Timothy Juggins, Steve De Deckker, Patrick Thiede, J Martinez, J Ignacio http://hdl.handle.net/1885/91088 https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/bitstream/1885/91088/5/01_Barrows_Sea-surface_temperatures_of_2000.pdf.jpg unknown American Geophysical Union 0883-8305 http://hdl.handle.net/1885/91088 https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/bitstream/1885/91088/5/01_Barrows_Sea-surface_temperatures_of_2000.pdf.jpg Paleoceanography Journal article ftanucanberra 2023-12-15T09:37:11Z The southwest Pacific Ocean covers a broad range of surface-water conditions ranging from warm, salty water in the subtropical East Australian Current to fresher, cold water in the Circumpolar Current. Using a new database of planktonic foraminifera assemblages (AUSMAT-F2), we demonstrate that the modern analog technique can be used to accurately reconstruct the magnitude of sea-surfacetemperature (SST) in this region. We apply this technique to data from 29 deep-sea cores along a meridional transect of the southwest Pacific Ocean to estimate the magnitude of SST cooling during the Last Glacial Maximum. We find minimal cooling in the tropics (0°-2°C), moderate cooling in the subtropical midlatitudes (2°-6°C), and maximum cooling to the southeast of New Zealand (6°-10°C). The magnitude of cooling at the sea surface from the tropics to the temperate latitudes is found to generally be less than cooling at the surface of adjacent land masses. Article in Journal/Newspaper Planktonic foraminifera Australian National University: ANU Digital Collections Pacific New Zealand |
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The southwest Pacific Ocean covers a broad range of surface-water conditions ranging from warm, salty water in the subtropical East Australian Current to fresher, cold water in the Circumpolar Current. Using a new database of planktonic foraminifera assemblages (AUSMAT-F2), we demonstrate that the modern analog technique can be used to accurately reconstruct the magnitude of sea-surfacetemperature (SST) in this region. We apply this technique to data from 29 deep-sea cores along a meridional transect of the southwest Pacific Ocean to estimate the magnitude of SST cooling during the Last Glacial Maximum. We find minimal cooling in the tropics (0°-2°C), moderate cooling in the subtropical midlatitudes (2°-6°C), and maximum cooling to the southeast of New Zealand (6°-10°C). The magnitude of cooling at the sea surface from the tropics to the temperate latitudes is found to generally be less than cooling at the surface of adjacent land masses. |
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Barrows, Timothy Juggins, Steve De Deckker, Patrick Thiede, J Martinez, J Ignacio |
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Barrows, Timothy Juggins, Steve De Deckker, Patrick Thiede, J Martinez, J Ignacio Sea-surface temperatures of the southwest Pacific Ocean during the Last Glacial Maximum. |
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Barrows, Timothy Juggins, Steve De Deckker, Patrick Thiede, J Martinez, J Ignacio |
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Barrows, Timothy |
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Sea-surface temperatures of the southwest Pacific Ocean during the Last Glacial Maximum. |
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Sea-surface temperatures of the southwest Pacific Ocean during the Last Glacial Maximum. |
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Sea-surface temperatures of the southwest Pacific Ocean during the Last Glacial Maximum. |
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Sea-surface temperatures of the southwest Pacific Ocean during the Last Glacial Maximum. |
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Sea-surface temperatures of the southwest Pacific Ocean during the Last Glacial Maximum. |
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sea-surface temperatures of the southwest pacific ocean during the last glacial maximum. |
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