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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ftsubggeo:oai:e-docs.geo-leo.de:11858/9147 2023-05-15T15:59:59+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://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL084009 http://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gldocs-11858/9147 eng eng doi:10.1029/2019GL084009 http://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gldocs-11858/9147 This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. CC-BY ddc:551 Spain last glacial Dansgaard/Oeschger speleothem Marine Isotope Stage 3 western Mediterranean climate doc-type:article 2019 ftsubggeo https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL084009 2022-11-09T06:51:40Z 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. Article in Journal/Newspaper Dansgaard-Oeschger events Greenland GEO-LEOe-docs (FID GEO) Greenland Geophysical Research Letters 46 15 9042 9053 |
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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 |
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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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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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