Western Mediterranean Climate Response to Dansgaard/Oeschger Events: New Insights From Speleothem Records
The climate of the western Mediterranean was characterized by a strong precipitation gradient during the Holocene driven by atmospheric circulation patterns. The scarcity of terrestrial paleoclimate archives has precluded exploring this hydroclimate pattern during Marine Isotope Stages 5 to 3. Here...
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ftdatacite:10.23689/fidgeo-4801 2023-05-15T15:59:58+02:00 Western Mediterranean Climate Response to Dansgaard/Oeschger Events: New Insights From Speleothem Records Budsky, Alexander Wassenburg, Jasper A. Mertz-Kraus, Regina Spötl, Christoph Jochum, Klaus Peter Gibert, Luis Scholz, Denis 2019 https://dx.doi.org/10.23689/fidgeo-4801 https://e-docs.geo-leo.de/handle/11858/9147 en eng FID GEO Text Article article-journal ScholarlyArticle 2019 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.23689/fidgeo-4801 2021-11-05T12:55:41Z The climate of the western Mediterranean was characterized by a strong precipitation gradient during the Holocene driven by atmospheric circulation patterns. The scarcity of terrestrial paleoclimate archives has precluded exploring this hydroclimate pattern during Marine Isotope Stages 5 to 3. Here we present stable carbon and oxygen isotope records from three flowstones from southeast Iberia, which show that Dansgaard/Oeschger events were associated with more humid conditions. This is in agreement with other records from the Iberian Peninsula, the Mediterranean, and western Europe, which all responded in a similar way to millennial-scale climate variability in Greenland. This general increase in precipitation during Dansgaard/Oeschger events cannot be explained by any present-day or Holocene winter atmospheric circulation pattern. Instead, we suggest that changes in sea surface temperature played a dominant role in determining precipitation amounts in the western Mediterranean. Text Dansgaard-Oeschger events Greenland DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) Greenland |
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The climate of the western Mediterranean was characterized by a strong precipitation gradient during the Holocene driven by atmospheric circulation patterns. The scarcity of terrestrial paleoclimate archives has precluded exploring this hydroclimate pattern during Marine Isotope Stages 5 to 3. Here we present stable carbon and oxygen isotope records from three flowstones from southeast Iberia, which show that Dansgaard/Oeschger events were associated with more humid conditions. This is in agreement with other records from the Iberian Peninsula, the Mediterranean, and western Europe, which all responded in a similar way to millennial-scale climate variability in Greenland. This general increase in precipitation during Dansgaard/Oeschger events cannot be explained by any present-day or Holocene winter atmospheric circulation pattern. Instead, we suggest that changes in sea surface temperature played a dominant role in determining precipitation amounts in the western Mediterranean. |
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Budsky, Alexander Wassenburg, Jasper A. Mertz-Kraus, Regina Spötl, Christoph Jochum, Klaus Peter Gibert, Luis Scholz, Denis Western Mediterranean Climate Response to Dansgaard/Oeschger Events: New Insights From Speleothem Records |
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Budsky, Alexander Wassenburg, Jasper A. Mertz-Kraus, Regina Spötl, Christoph Jochum, Klaus Peter Gibert, Luis Scholz, Denis |
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Budsky, Alexander |
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Western Mediterranean Climate Response to Dansgaard/Oeschger Events: New Insights From Speleothem Records |
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Western Mediterranean Climate Response to Dansgaard/Oeschger Events: New Insights From Speleothem Records |
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Western Mediterranean Climate Response to Dansgaard/Oeschger Events: New Insights From Speleothem Records |
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Western Mediterranean Climate Response to Dansgaard/Oeschger Events: New Insights From Speleothem Records |
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Western Mediterranean Climate Response to Dansgaard/Oeschger Events: New Insights From Speleothem Records |
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western mediterranean climate response to dansgaard/oeschger events: new insights from speleothem records |
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