Millennial-scale variability in south-east Australian hydroclimate between 30,000 and 10,000 years ago
Global climate variability during the late Quaternary is commonly investigated within the framework of the 'bipolar seesaw' pattern of asynchronous temperature variations in the northern and southern polar latitudes. The terrestrial hydrological response to this pattern in south-eastern Au...
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ftmacquarieunicr:oai:https://researchers.mq.edu.au:publications/e90fd7bd-bbe2-450d-8560-7e2f70a4e802 2024-09-15T18:37:12+00:00 Millennial-scale variability in south-east Australian hydroclimate between 30,000 and 10,000 years ago Falster, Georgina Tyler, Jonathan Grant, Katharine Tibby, John Turney, Chris Löhr, Stefan Jacobsen, Geraldine Kershaw, A. Peter 2018-07-15 https://researchers.mq.edu.au/en/publications/e90fd7bd-bbe2-450d-8560-7e2f70a4e802 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.05.031 http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85047818586&partnerID=8YFLogxK http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP140014093 eng eng info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess Falster , G , Tyler , J , Grant , K , Tibby , J , Turney , C , Löhr , S , Jacobsen , G & Kershaw , A P 2018 , ' Millennial-scale variability in south-east Australian hydroclimate between 30,000 and 10,000 years ago ' , Quaternary Science Reviews , vol. 192 , pp. 106-122 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.05.031 Palaeoclimatology Quaternary Last glacial maximum (LGM) Australasia Lake sediment Scanning XRF Carbon isotopes Monte Carlo empirical orthogonal function article 2018 ftmacquarieunicr https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.05.031 2024-07-10T23:45:58Z Global climate variability during the late Quaternary is commonly investigated within the framework of the 'bipolar seesaw' pattern of asynchronous temperature variations in the northern and southern polar latitudes. The terrestrial hydrological response to this pattern in south-eastern Australia is not fully understood, as continuous, high-resolution, well-dated proxy records for the hydrological cycle in the region are sparse. Here we present a well-dated, highly resolved record of moisture balance spanning 30000–10000 calendar years before present (30–10 ka BP), based on x-ray fluorescence and organic carbon isotope (δ 13 C OM ) measurements of a sedimentary sequence from Lake Surprise in south-eastern Australia. The data provide a locally coherent record of the hydrological cycle. Elevated Si (reflecting windblown quartz and clays), and relatively high δ 13 C OM indicate an extended period of relative aridity between 28 and 18.5 ka BP, interrupted by millennial-scale episodes of decreased Si and δ 13 C OM , suggesting increased moisture balance. This was followed by a rapid deglacial shift to low Si and δ 13 C OM at 18.5 ka BP, indicative of wetter conditions. We find that these changes are coeval with other records from south-eastern Australia and New Zealand, and use a Monte Carlo Empirical Orthogonal Function approach to extract a common trend from three high-resolution records. Our analyses suggest that drivers of the regional hydrological cycle have varied on multi-millennial time scales, in response to major shifts in global atmosphere-ocean dynamics during the last glacial-interglacial transition. Southern Ocean processes were the dominant control on hydroclimate during glacial times, via a strong influence of cold sea surface temperatures on moisture uptake and delivery onshore. Following the last deglaciation (around 18 ka BP), the southward migration of cold Southern Ocean fronts likely resulted in the establishment of conditions more like those of the present day. Millennial-scale variability in ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Southern Ocean Macquarie University Research Portal Quaternary Science Reviews 192 106 122 |
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Palaeoclimatology Quaternary Last glacial maximum (LGM) Australasia Lake sediment Scanning XRF Carbon isotopes Monte Carlo empirical orthogonal function Falster, Georgina Tyler, Jonathan Grant, Katharine Tibby, John Turney, Chris Löhr, Stefan Jacobsen, Geraldine Kershaw, A. Peter Millennial-scale variability in south-east Australian hydroclimate between 30,000 and 10,000 years ago |
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Global climate variability during the late Quaternary is commonly investigated within the framework of the 'bipolar seesaw' pattern of asynchronous temperature variations in the northern and southern polar latitudes. The terrestrial hydrological response to this pattern in south-eastern Australia is not fully understood, as continuous, high-resolution, well-dated proxy records for the hydrological cycle in the region are sparse. Here we present a well-dated, highly resolved record of moisture balance spanning 30000–10000 calendar years before present (30–10 ka BP), based on x-ray fluorescence and organic carbon isotope (δ 13 C OM ) measurements of a sedimentary sequence from Lake Surprise in south-eastern Australia. The data provide a locally coherent record of the hydrological cycle. Elevated Si (reflecting windblown quartz and clays), and relatively high δ 13 C OM indicate an extended period of relative aridity between 28 and 18.5 ka BP, interrupted by millennial-scale episodes of decreased Si and δ 13 C OM , suggesting increased moisture balance. This was followed by a rapid deglacial shift to low Si and δ 13 C OM at 18.5 ka BP, indicative of wetter conditions. We find that these changes are coeval with other records from south-eastern Australia and New Zealand, and use a Monte Carlo Empirical Orthogonal Function approach to extract a common trend from three high-resolution records. Our analyses suggest that drivers of the regional hydrological cycle have varied on multi-millennial time scales, in response to major shifts in global atmosphere-ocean dynamics during the last glacial-interglacial transition. Southern Ocean processes were the dominant control on hydroclimate during glacial times, via a strong influence of cold sea surface temperatures on moisture uptake and delivery onshore. Following the last deglaciation (around 18 ka BP), the southward migration of cold Southern Ocean fronts likely resulted in the establishment of conditions more like those of the present day. Millennial-scale variability in ... |
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Millennial-scale variability in south-east Australian hydroclimate between 30,000 and 10,000 years ago |
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Millennial-scale variability in south-east Australian hydroclimate between 30,000 and 10,000 years ago |
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Millennial-scale variability in south-east Australian hydroclimate between 30,000 and 10,000 years ago |
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Millennial-scale variability in south-east Australian hydroclimate between 30,000 and 10,000 years ago |
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Millennial-scale variability in south-east Australian hydroclimate between 30,000 and 10,000 years ago |
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millennial-scale variability in south-east australian hydroclimate between 30,000 and 10,000 years ago |
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Falster , G , Tyler , J , Grant , K , Tibby , J , Turney , C , Löhr , S , Jacobsen , G & Kershaw , A P 2018 , ' Millennial-scale variability in south-east Australian hydroclimate between 30,000 and 10,000 years ago ' , Quaternary Science Reviews , vol. 192 , pp. 106-122 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.05.031 |
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