Postglacial North Pacific

Postglacial North Pacific paleoceanography is dominated by the ENSO system, which can acquire for centuries to thousands of years an El Niño-like or a La Niña-like dominant state. A La Niña-like (negative Pacific decadal oscillation (PDO)) to El Niño-like (positive PDO) state evolved from the early-...

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Main Author: Ignacio Martinez, J.
Format: Book Part
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2013
Subjects:
Asian monsoons
Australian-Indonesian monsoon
California Current
Cold tongue
El Niño
ENSO
Holocene
Indo-Pacific warm pool
ITCZ
Kuroshio Current
La Niña
North Pacific
Paleoceanography
PDO
Postglacial
Salinity
Pacific
Ice Sheet
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10784/26952
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Summary:Postglacial North Pacific paleoceanography is dominated by the ENSO system, which can acquire for centuries to thousands of years an El Niño-like or a La Niña-like dominant state. A La Niña-like (negative Pacific decadal oscillation (PDO)) to El Niño-like (positive PDO) state evolved from the early-middle to the late Holocene. Accordingly, the ITCZ changed from a northern to a southern location, thus reducing the strength of the Kuroshio and California Currents. In addition to this pattern, there are regional differences imposed by the interaction between the monsoons in the western Pacific and the PDO in the northeastern Pacific. Evidence is becoming robust for teleconnections between the Asian monsoons, the California Current, and the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation, modulated by solar insolation and ice sheet dynamics. © 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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