Marine records of Holocene climatic variations
International audience Holocene millennial climate variability is smaller than that of the last glaciation, due to the disappearance of large unstable ice sheets. Marine records show that the sea-surface temperature (SST) exhibited small variations, mainly in the high and low latitudes. They may be...
Published in: | Comptes Rendus Geoscience |
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2005
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Online Access: | https://hal.science/hal-02958065 https://hal.science/hal-02958065/document https://hal.science/hal-02958065/file/1-s2.0-S163107130400272X-main.pdf https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crte.2004.08.007 |
Summary: | International audience Holocene millennial climate variability is smaller than that of the last glaciation, due to the disappearance of large unstable ice sheets. Marine records show that the sea-surface temperature (SST) exhibited small variations, mainly in the high and low latitudes. They may be interpreted as a linear response to the mean annual insolation. Major changes in the hydrological cycle have been evidenced in the Asian and African monsoon area, resulting in enhanced precipitation and large river outflow in the Bay of Bengal and the Gulf of Niger. Enhanced rainfall over the Mediterranean Basin resulted in a weak circulation and sapropel formation below 800-m water depth in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Finally small changes in the thermohaline circulation and the warm North Atlantic Drift have been detected in the Nordic Seas. The Holocene climatic variability is therefore similarto that of the Quaternary, but with small amplitude, while continents experienced large rainfall variations Enregistrements marins des variations climatiques de l'Holocène. La variabilité climatique millénaire de l'Holocène est plus faible que celle de la dernière glaciation, en raison de l'absence de grosses calottes glaciaires instables. Les enregistrements marins mettent en évidence des variations modestes de la température de l'eau de mer, notamment dans les très hautes et très basses latitudes. Celles-ci peuvent être interprétées comme une réponse linéaire aux changements de l'insolation moyenne annuelle. En revanche, de grandes variations du cycle hydrologique ont affecté les moussons indiennes et africaines, au point de modifier la salinité de la baie du Bengale et du golfe du Niger. Une augmentation des pluies sur le bassin méditerranéen a perturbé le fonctionnement de la mer Méditerranée : sa circulation profonde a été ralentie et ses eaux sont devenues anoxiques pendant plusieurs millénaires dans le bassin oriental en dessous de 800 m. En milieu océanique ouvert, de petites fluctuations de la circulation ... |
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