Radionuclide wiggle-matching reveals a non-synchronous Early Holocene climate oscillation in Greenland and Western Europe around a grand solar minimum
Several climate events have been reported from the Early Holocene superepoch, the best known of these being the Preboreal oscillation (PBO). It is still unclear how the PBO and the number of climate events observed in Greenland ice cores and European terrestrial records are related to one another. T...
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ftcopernicus:oai:publications.copernicus.org:cpd80797 2023-05-15T16:26:16+02:00 Radionuclide wiggle-matching reveals a non-synchronous Early Holocene climate oscillation in Greenland and Western Europe around a grand solar minimum Mekhaldi, Florian Czymzik, Markus Adolphi, Florian Sjolte, Jesper Björck, Svante Aldahan, Ala Brauer, Achim Martín-Puertas, Celia Possnert, Göran Muscheler, Raimund 2019-11-04 application/pdf https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-2019-125 https://www.clim-past-discuss.net/cp-2019-125/ eng eng doi:10.5194/cp-2019-125 https://www.clim-past-discuss.net/cp-2019-125/ eISSN: 1814-9332 Text 2019 ftcopernicus https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-2019-125 2019-12-24T09:48:16Z Several climate events have been reported from the Early Holocene superepoch, the best known of these being the Preboreal oscillation (PBO). It is still unclear how the PBO and the number of climate events observed in Greenland ice cores and European terrestrial records are related to one another. This is mainly due to uncertainties in the chronologies of the records. Here, we present new high resolution 10Be concentration data from the varved Meerfelder Maar sediment record in Germany, spanning the period 11310–11000 years BP. These new data allow us to synchronize this well-studied record as well as Greenland ice-core records to the IntCal13 time-scale via radionuclide wiggle-matching. In doing so, we show that the climate oscillations identified in Greenland and Europe between 11450 and 11000 years BP were not synchronous but terminated and began, respectively, with the onset of a grand solar minimum. A similar spatial anomaly pattern is found in a number of modeling studies on solar forcing of climate in the North Atlantic region. We further postulate that freshwater delivery to the North Atlantic would have had the potential to amplify solar forcing through a slowdown of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) reinforcing surface air temperature anomalies in the region. Text Greenland Greenland ice core Greenland ice cores ice core North Atlantic Copernicus Publications: E-Journals Greenland |
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Several climate events have been reported from the Early Holocene superepoch, the best known of these being the Preboreal oscillation (PBO). It is still unclear how the PBO and the number of climate events observed in Greenland ice cores and European terrestrial records are related to one another. This is mainly due to uncertainties in the chronologies of the records. Here, we present new high resolution 10Be concentration data from the varved Meerfelder Maar sediment record in Germany, spanning the period 11310–11000 years BP. These new data allow us to synchronize this well-studied record as well as Greenland ice-core records to the IntCal13 time-scale via radionuclide wiggle-matching. In doing so, we show that the climate oscillations identified in Greenland and Europe between 11450 and 11000 years BP were not synchronous but terminated and began, respectively, with the onset of a grand solar minimum. A similar spatial anomaly pattern is found in a number of modeling studies on solar forcing of climate in the North Atlantic region. We further postulate that freshwater delivery to the North Atlantic would have had the potential to amplify solar forcing through a slowdown of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) reinforcing surface air temperature anomalies in the region. |
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Mekhaldi, Florian Czymzik, Markus Adolphi, Florian Sjolte, Jesper Björck, Svante Aldahan, Ala Brauer, Achim Martín-Puertas, Celia Possnert, Göran Muscheler, Raimund |
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Mekhaldi, Florian Czymzik, Markus Adolphi, Florian Sjolte, Jesper Björck, Svante Aldahan, Ala Brauer, Achim Martín-Puertas, Celia Possnert, Göran Muscheler, Raimund Radionuclide wiggle-matching reveals a non-synchronous Early Holocene climate oscillation in Greenland and Western Europe around a grand solar minimum |
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Mekhaldi, Florian Czymzik, Markus Adolphi, Florian Sjolte, Jesper Björck, Svante Aldahan, Ala Brauer, Achim Martín-Puertas, Celia Possnert, Göran Muscheler, Raimund |
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Radionuclide wiggle-matching reveals a non-synchronous Early Holocene climate oscillation in Greenland and Western Europe around a grand solar minimum |
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Radionuclide wiggle-matching reveals a non-synchronous Early Holocene climate oscillation in Greenland and Western Europe around a grand solar minimum |
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Radionuclide wiggle-matching reveals a non-synchronous Early Holocene climate oscillation in Greenland and Western Europe around a grand solar minimum |
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Radionuclide wiggle-matching reveals a non-synchronous Early Holocene climate oscillation in Greenland and Western Europe around a grand solar minimum |
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Radionuclide wiggle-matching reveals a non-synchronous Early Holocene climate oscillation in Greenland and Western Europe around a grand solar minimum |
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radionuclide wiggle-matching reveals a non-synchronous early holocene climate oscillation in greenland and western europe around a grand solar minimum |
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