Variations in the Southern Hemisphere Westerlies Over the Last 23,000 Years from Lake Records in the Falkland Islands

• Main Author: Spoth, Meghan M
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: DigitalCommons@UMaine 2020
• Subjects: leaf wax; biomarkers; pollen; sediment core; tephra; Mt. Usborne; Atmospheric Sciences; Climate; Earth Sciences; Geochemistry; Geology; Glaciology; Sedimentology; Southern Ocean; Alpine Lake
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/etd/3264; https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4334&context=etd

The Southern Hemisphere Westerlies (SHW) are an important driver of climate in the mid-latitudes of the Southern Hemisphere. Abrupt latitudinal migration of this coupled atmospheric-oceanic system is thought to be linked to the onset of the Termination at the end of the last ice age and to subsequen...