Reorganized Atmospheric Circulation During the Little Ice Age Leads to Rapid Southern California Deoxygenation
The magnitude of natural oceanic dissolved oxygen (DO) variability remains poorly understood due to the short duration of the observational record. Here we present a high‐resolution (4–9 years) reconstruction of the Southern California oxygen minimum zone (OMZ) through the Common Era using redox‐sen...
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The magnitude of natural oceanic dissolved oxygen (DO) variability remains poorly understood due to the short duration of the observational record. Here we present a high‐resolution (4–9 years) reconstruction of the Southern California oxygen minimum zone (OMZ) through the Common Era using redox‐sensitive metals. Rapid OMZ intensification on multidecadal timescales reveals greater DO variability than observed in instrumental records. An anomalous interval of intensified OMZ between 1600–1750 CE contradicts the expectation of better‐ventilated mid‐depth North Pacific during cool climates. Although the influence of low‐DO Equatorial Pacific Intermediate Water on the Southern California Margin was likely weaker during this interval, we attribute the observed rapid deoxygenation to reduced North Pacific Intermediate Water (NPIW) ventilation. NPIW ventilation thus appears very sensitive to atmospheric circulation reorganization (e.g., a weakened Siberian High and Aleutian Low). In addition to temperature‐induced gas solubility, atmospheric forcing under future anthropogenic influences could amplify OMZ variability.Plain Language SummaryOxygen content of the ocean is declining as seawater warms due to anthropogenic climate change impacting gas solubility. However, how much dissolved oxygen in seawater can decrease naturally is unknown, as we have only been measuring oxygen in ocean waters for ∼60 years. We reconstructed oxygen concentrations of bottom waters in Santa Barbara Basin (SBB), CA for the past 2,000 years using marine sediments on sub‐decadal time scales. We found that seawater oxygen varied more in the past than has been recently observed, and that seawater oxygen was surprisingly low during 1600–1750 CE—one of the coldest intervals during the last 1,000 years. At this time the atmospheric circulation over the Sea of Okhotsk suppressed sea ice formation, reducing the surface ocean mixing that supplies oxygen to the subsurface waters. This low‐oxygen subsurface water moved around the northeastern Pacific ... |
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Wang, Yi; Hendy, Ingrid L. (2021). "Reorganized Atmospheric Circulation During the Little Ice Age Leads to Rapid Southern California Deoxygenation." Geophysical Research Letters 48(15): n/a-n/a. 0094-8276 1944-8007 https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/169345 doi:10.1029/2021GL094469 Geophysical Research Letters Warrick, J. A., & Farnsworth, K. L. ( 2009 ). Sources of sediment to the coastal waters of the Southern California Bight. The Geological Society of America Special Paper, 454, 39 – 52. https://doi.org/10.1130/2009.2454(2.2) Eagle, M., Paytan, A., Arrigo, K. R., van Dijken, G., & Murray, R. W. ( 2003 ). A comparison between excess barium and barite as indicators of carbon export. Paleoceanography, 18 ( 1 ). https://doi.org/10.1029/2003pa000922 Ganeshram, R. S., François, R., Commeau, J., & Brown‐Leger, S. L. ( 2003 ). An experimental investigation of barite formation in seawater. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 67 ( 14 ), 2599 – 2605. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0016-7037(03)00164-9 Gingele, F. X., Zabel, M., Kasten, S., Bonn, W. J., & Nürnberg, C. C. ( 1999 ). Biogenic barium as a proxy for paleoproductivity: Methods and limitations of application. In G. Fischer & G. Wefer (Eds.), Use of Proxies in Paleoceanography: Examples from the South Atlantic (pp. 345 – 364 ). Springer Berlin Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-58646-0_13 Hamill, T. M., Whitaker, J. S., & Snyder, C. ( 2001 ). Distance‐dependent filtering of background error covariance estimates in an ensemble Kalman filter. Monthly Weather Review, 129 ( 11 ), 2776 – 2790. https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0493(2001)129<2776:ddfobe>2.0.co;2 Harrison, B. K., Zhang, H., Berelson, W., & Orphan, V. J. ( 2009 ). Variations in archaeal and bacterial diversity associated with the sulfate‐methane transition zone in continental margin sediments (Santa Barbara Basin, California). Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 75 ( 6 ), 1487 – 1499. https://doi.org/10.1128/aem.01812-08 Kimura, N. ( 2004 ). Increase and decrease of sea ice area in the Sea of Okhotsk: Ice production in coastal polynyas and dynamic thickening in convergence zones. Journal of Geophysical Research, 109 ( C9 ). https://doi.org/10.1029/2003jc001901 Kuwabara, J. S., Geen, A. V., Mccorkle, D. C., & Bernhard, J. M. ( 1999 ). Dissolved sulfide distributions in the water column and sediment pore waters of the Santa Barbara Basin. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 63 ( 15 ), 2199 – 2209. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0016-7037(99)00084-8 McManus, J., Berelson, W. M., Klinkhammer, G. P., Kilgore, T. E., & Hammond, D. E. ( 1994 ). Remobilization of barium in continental margin sediments. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 58 ( 22 ), 4899 – 4907. https://doi.org/10.1016/0016-7037(94)90220-8 Miyao, T., & Ishikawa, K. ( 2003 ). 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ftumdeepblue:oai:deepblue.lib.umich.edu:2027.42/169345 2023-08-20T03:59:26+02:00 Reorganized Atmospheric Circulation During the Little Ice Age Leads to Rapid Southern California Deoxygenation Wang, Yi Hendy, Ingrid L. 2021-08-16 application/pdf https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/169345 https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GL094469 unknown Springer Berlin Heidelberg Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Wang, Yi; Hendy, Ingrid L. (2021). "Reorganized Atmospheric Circulation During the Little Ice Age Leads to Rapid Southern California Deoxygenation." Geophysical Research Letters 48(15): n/a-n/a. 0094-8276 1944-8007 https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/169345 doi:10.1029/2021GL094469 Geophysical Research Letters Warrick, J. A., & Farnsworth, K. L. ( 2009 ). Sources of sediment to the coastal waters of the Southern California Bight. The Geological Society of America Special Paper, 454, 39 – 52. https://doi.org/10.1130/2009.2454(2.2) Eagle, M., Paytan, A., Arrigo, K. R., van Dijken, G., & Murray, R. W. ( 2003 ). A comparison between excess barium and barite as indicators of carbon export. Paleoceanography, 18 ( 1 ). https://doi.org/10.1029/2003pa000922 Ganeshram, R. S., François, R., Commeau, J., & Brown‐Leger, S. L. ( 2003 ). An experimental investigation of barite formation in seawater. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 67 ( 14 ), 2599 – 2605. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0016-7037(03)00164-9 Gingele, F. X., Zabel, M., Kasten, S., Bonn, W. J., & Nürnberg, C. C. ( 1999 ). Biogenic barium as a proxy for paleoproductivity: Methods and limitations of application. In G. Fischer & G. Wefer (Eds.), Use of Proxies in Paleoceanography: Examples from the South Atlantic (pp. 345 – 364 ). Springer Berlin Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-58646-0_13 Hamill, T. M., Whitaker, J. S., & Snyder, C. ( 2001 ). Distance‐dependent filtering of background error covariance estimates in an ensemble Kalman filter. Monthly Weather Review, 129 ( 11 ), 2776 – 2790. https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0493(2001)129<2776:ddfobe>2.0.co;2 Harrison, B. K., Zhang, H., Berelson, W., & Orphan, V. J. ( 2009 ). Variations in archaeal and bacterial diversity associated with the sulfate‐methane transition zone in continental margin sediments (Santa Barbara Basin, California). Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 75 ( 6 ), 1487 – 1499. https://doi.org/10.1128/aem.01812-08 Kimura, N. ( 2004 ). Increase and decrease of sea ice area in the Sea of Okhotsk: Ice production in coastal polynyas and dynamic thickening in convergence zones. Journal of Geophysical Research, 109 ( C9 ). https://doi.org/10.1029/2003jc001901 Kuwabara, J. S., Geen, A. V., Mccorkle, D. C., & Bernhard, J. M. ( 1999 ). Dissolved sulfide distributions in the water column and sediment pore waters of the Santa Barbara Basin. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 63 ( 15 ), 2199 – 2209. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0016-7037(99)00084-8 McManus, J., Berelson, W. M., Klinkhammer, G. P., Kilgore, T. E., & Hammond, D. E. ( 1994 ). Remobilization of barium in continental margin sediments. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 58 ( 22 ), 4899 – 4907. https://doi.org/10.1016/0016-7037(94)90220-8 Miyao, T., & Ishikawa, K. ( 2003 ). Formation, distribution and volume transport of the North Pacific Intermediate Water studied by repeat hydrographic observations. Journal of Oceanography, 59 ( 6 ), 905 – 919. https://doi.org/10.1023/b:joce.0000009580.24051.90 PAGES 2k Consortium. ( 2017 ). A global multiproxy database for temperature reconstructions of the Common Era. Scientific Data, 4, 170088. https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2017.88 Paytan, A., & Griffith, E. M. ( 2007 ). Marine barite: Recorder of variations in ocean export productivity. Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography, 54 ( 5–7 ), 687 – 705. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr2.2007.01.007 Raven, M. R., Sessions, A. L., Fischer, W. W., & Adkins, J. F. ( 2016 ). Sedimentary pyrite δ 34 S differs from porewater sulfide in Santa Barbara Basin: Proposed role of organic sulfur. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 186, 120 – 134. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2016.04.037 Reid, J. L. ( 1965 ). Intermediate waters of the Pacific Ocean. Johns Hopkins Oceanography Studies, 5, 1 – 96. Reimers, C. E., Ruttenberg, K. C., Canfield, D. E., Christiansen, M. B., & Martin, J. B. ( 1996 ). Porewater pH and authigenic phases formed in the uppermost sediments of the Santa Barbara Basin. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 60 ( 21 ), 4037 – 4057. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0016-7037(96)00231-1 Riedinger, N., Kasten, S., Gröger, J., Franke, C., & Pfeifer, K. ( 2006 ). Active and buried authigenic barite fronts in sediments from the Eastern Cape Basin. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 241 ( 3–4 ), 876 – 887. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2005.10.032 Shcherbina, A. Y., Talley, L. D., & Rudnick, D. L. ( 2004a ). Dense water formation on the northwestern shelf of the Okhotsk Sea: 1. Direct observations of brine rejection. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 109 ( C9 ). https://doi.org/10.1029/2003jc002196 Shcherbina, A. Y., Talley, L. D., & Rudnick, D. L. ( 2004b ). Dense water formation on the northwestern shelf of the Okhotsk Sea: 2. Quantifying the transports. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 109 ( C9 ). https://doi.org/10.1029/2003jc002197 Steiger, N. J., Hakim, G. J., Steig, E. J., Battisti, D. S., & Roe, G. H. ( 2014 ). Assimilation of time‐averaged pseudoproxies for climate reconstruction. Journal of Climate, 27 ( 1 ), 426 – 441. https://doi.org/10.1175/jcli-d-12-00693.1 Watanabe, T., & Wakatsuchi, M. ( 1998 ). Formation of 26.8–26.9 σ θ water in the Kuril Basin of the Sea of Okhotsk as a possible origin of North Pacific Intermediate Water. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 103 ( C2 ), 2849 – 2865. https://doi.org/10.1029/97jc02914 You, Y. ( 2003 ). The pathway and circulation of North Pacific Intermediate Water. Geophysical Research Letters, 30 ( 24 ). https://doi.org/10.1029/2003gl018561 You, Y., Suginohara, N., Fukasawa, M., Yasuda, I., Kaneko, I., Yoritaka, H., & Kawamiya, M. ( 2000 ). Roles of the Okhotsk Sea and Gulf of Alaska in forming the North Pacific Intermediate Water. Journal of Geophysical Research, 105 ( C2 ), 3253 – 3280. https://doi.org/10.1029/1999jc900304 You, Y., Suginohara, N., Fukasawa, M., Yoritaka, H., Mizuno, K., Kashino, Y., & Hartoyo, D. ( 2003 ). Transport of North Pacific Intermediate Water across Japanese WOCE sections. Journal of Geophysical Research, 108 ( C6 ). https://doi.org/10.1029/2002jc001662 Altabet, M. A., Pilskaln, C., Thunell, R., Pride, C., Sigman, D., Chavez, F., & Francois, R. ( 1999 ). The nitrogen isotope biogeochemistry of sinking particles from the margin of the Eastern North Pacific. 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Limnology and Oceanography. https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.11412 IndexNoFollow oxygen minimum zone atmospheric circulation North Pacific Intermediate Water ventilation Southern California Geological Sciences Science Article 2021 ftumdeepblue https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GL09446910.1029/2003jc00190110.1038/sdata.2017.8810.1029/2003gl01856110.1016/j.quascirev.2018.06.02710.1029/2001jc00129110.5194/bg-10-6225-201310.1126/science.aam724010.1126/science.125233210.1002/lno.1141210.1002/2016jd0247511 2023-07-31T20:43:07Z The magnitude of natural oceanic dissolved oxygen (DO) variability remains poorly understood due to the short duration of the observational record. Here we present a high‐resolution (4–9 years) reconstruction of the Southern California oxygen minimum zone (OMZ) through the Common Era using redox‐sensitive metals. Rapid OMZ intensification on multidecadal timescales reveals greater DO variability than observed in instrumental records. An anomalous interval of intensified OMZ between 1600–1750 CE contradicts the expectation of better‐ventilated mid‐depth North Pacific during cool climates. Although the influence of low‐DO Equatorial Pacific Intermediate Water on the Southern California Margin was likely weaker during this interval, we attribute the observed rapid deoxygenation to reduced North Pacific Intermediate Water (NPIW) ventilation. NPIW ventilation thus appears very sensitive to atmospheric circulation reorganization (e.g., a weakened Siberian High and Aleutian Low). In addition to temperature‐induced gas solubility, atmospheric forcing under future anthropogenic influences could amplify OMZ variability.Plain Language SummaryOxygen content of the ocean is declining as seawater warms due to anthropogenic climate change impacting gas solubility. However, how much dissolved oxygen in seawater can decrease naturally is unknown, as we have only been measuring oxygen in ocean waters for ∼60 years. We reconstructed oxygen concentrations of bottom waters in Santa Barbara Basin (SBB), CA for the past 2,000 years using marine sediments on sub‐decadal time scales. We found that seawater oxygen varied more in the past than has been recently observed, and that seawater oxygen was surprisingly low during 1600–1750 CE—one of the coldest intervals during the last 1,000 years. At this time the atmospheric circulation over the Sea of Okhotsk suppressed sea ice formation, reducing the surface ocean mixing that supplies oxygen to the subsurface waters. This low‐oxygen subsurface water moved around the northeastern Pacific ... Article in Journal/Newspaper aleutian low Sea ice University of Michigan: Deep Blue Okhotsk Pacific Geophysical Research Letters 48 15 |