Patterns of millennial variability over the last 500 ka
Millennial variability is a robust feature of many paleoclimate records, at least throughout the last several glacial cycles. Here we use the mean signal from Antarctic climate events 1 to 4 to probe the EPICA Dome C temperature proxy reconstruction through the last 500 ka for similar millennial-sca...
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ftunivbern:oai:boris.unibe.ch:4629 2024-09-15T17:47:06+00:00 Patterns of millennial variability over the last 500 ka Siddall, M. Rohling, E. J. Spahni, Renato Blunier, T. 2010 application/pdf https://boris.unibe.ch/4629/1/cp-6-295-2010.pdf https://boris.unibe.ch/4629/ eng eng Copernicus Publications https://boris.unibe.ch/4629/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Siddall, M.; Rohling, E. J.; Spahni, Renato; Blunier, T. (2010). Patterns of millennial variability over the last 500 ka. Climate of the past, 6(3), pp. 295-303. Göttingen: Copernicus Publications 10.5194/cp-6-295-2010 <http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/cp-6-295-2010> info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion PeerReviewed 2010 ftunivbern https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-6-295-2010 2024-06-24T05:12:09Z Millennial variability is a robust feature of many paleoclimate records, at least throughout the last several glacial cycles. Here we use the mean signal from Antarctic climate events 1 to 4 to probe the EPICA Dome C temperature proxy reconstruction through the last 500 ka for similar millennial-scale events. We find that clusters of millennial events occurred in a regular fashion over half of the time during this with a mean recurrence interval of 21 kyr. We find that there is no consistent link between ice-rafted debris deposition and millennial variability. Instead we speculate that changes in the zonality of atmospheric circulation over the North Atlantic form a viable alternative to freshwater release from icebergs as a trigger for millennial variability. We suggest that millennial changes in the zonality of atmospheric circulation over the North Atlantic are linked to precession via sea-ice feedbacks and that this relationship is modified by the presence of the large, Northern Hemisphere ice sheets during glacial periods. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic EPICA Iceberg* North Atlantic Sea ice BORIS (Bern Open Repository and Information System, University of Bern) Climate of the Past 6 3 295 303 |
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Millennial variability is a robust feature of many paleoclimate records, at least throughout the last several glacial cycles. Here we use the mean signal from Antarctic climate events 1 to 4 to probe the EPICA Dome C temperature proxy reconstruction through the last 500 ka for similar millennial-scale events. We find that clusters of millennial events occurred in a regular fashion over half of the time during this with a mean recurrence interval of 21 kyr. We find that there is no consistent link between ice-rafted debris deposition and millennial variability. Instead we speculate that changes in the zonality of atmospheric circulation over the North Atlantic form a viable alternative to freshwater release from icebergs as a trigger for millennial variability. We suggest that millennial changes in the zonality of atmospheric circulation over the North Atlantic are linked to precession via sea-ice feedbacks and that this relationship is modified by the presence of the large, Northern Hemisphere ice sheets during glacial periods. |
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Patterns of millennial variability over the last 500 ka |
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Siddall, M.; Rohling, E. J.; Spahni, Renato; Blunier, T. (2010). Patterns of millennial variability over the last 500 ka. Climate of the past, 6(3), pp. 295-303. Göttingen: Copernicus Publications 10.5194/cp-6-295-2010 <http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/cp-6-295-2010> |
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