Tropical forcing of increased Southern Ocean climate variability revealed by a 140-year subantarctic temperature reconstruction
Occupying about 14 % of the world’s surface, the Southern Ocean plays a fundamental role in ocean and atmosphere circulation, carbon cycling and Antarctic ice-sheet dynamics. Unfortunately, high interannual variability and a dearth of instrumental observations before the 1950s limits our understan...
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ftunivlouvain:oai:dial.uclouvain.be:boreal:183726 2024-05-19T07:29:54+00:00 Tropical forcing of increased Southern Ocean climate variability revealed by a 140-year subantarctic temperature reconstruction Turney, Chris S. M. Fogwill, Christopher J. Palmer, Jonathan G. van Sebille, Erik Thomas, Zoë McGlone, Matt Richardson, Sarah Wilmshurst, Janet M. Fenwick, Pavla Zunz, Violette Goosse, Hugues Wilson, Kerry-Jayne Carter, Lionel Lipson, Mathew Jones, Richard T. Harsch, Melanie Clark, Graeme Marzinelli, Ezequiel Rogers, Tracey Rainsley, Eleanor Ciasto, Laura Waterman, Stephanie Thomas, Elizabeth R. Visbeck, Martin UCL - SST/ELI/ELIC - Earth & Climate 2017 http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/183726 https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-13-231-2017 eng eng Copernicus GmbH boreal:183726 http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/183726 doi:10.5194/cp-13-231-2017 urn:ISSN:1814-9324 urn:EISSN:1814-9332 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Climate of the Past, Vol. 13, no.3, p. 231-248 (2017) CISM:CECI info:eu-repo/semantics/article 2017 ftunivlouvain https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-13-231-2017 2024-04-24T01:20:25Z Occupying about 14 % of the world’s surface, the Southern Ocean plays a fundamental role in ocean and atmosphere circulation, carbon cycling and Antarctic ice-sheet dynamics. Unfortunately, high interannual variability and a dearth of instrumental observations before the 1950s limits our understanding of how marine–atmosphere–ice domains interact on multi-decadal timescales and the impact of anthropogenic forcing. Here we integrate climate-sensitive tree growth with ocean and atmospheric observations on southwest Pacific subantarctic islands that lie at the boundary of polar and subtropical climates (52–54â—¦ S). Our annually resolved temperature reconstruction captures regional change since the 1870s and demonstrates a significant increase in variability from the 1940s, a phenomenon predating the observational record. Climate reanalysis and modelling show a parallel change in tropical Pacific sea surface temperatures that generate an atmospheric Rossby wave train which propagates across a large part of the Southern Hemisphere during the austral spring and summer. Our results suggest that modern observed high interannual variability was established across the mid-twentieth century, and that the influence of contemporary equatorial Pacific temperatures may now be a permanent feature across the mid- to high latitudes. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic Ice Sheet Southern Ocean DIAL@UCLouvain (Université catholique de Louvain) Climate of the Past 13 3 231 248 |
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Occupying about 14 % of the world’s surface, the Southern Ocean plays a fundamental role in ocean and atmosphere circulation, carbon cycling and Antarctic ice-sheet dynamics. Unfortunately, high interannual variability and a dearth of instrumental observations before the 1950s limits our understanding of how marine–atmosphere–ice domains interact on multi-decadal timescales and the impact of anthropogenic forcing. Here we integrate climate-sensitive tree growth with ocean and atmospheric observations on southwest Pacific subantarctic islands that lie at the boundary of polar and subtropical climates (52–54◦ S). Our annually resolved temperature reconstruction captures regional change since the 1870s and demonstrates a significant increase in variability from the 1940s, a phenomenon predating the observational record. Climate reanalysis and modelling show a parallel change in tropical Pacific sea surface temperatures that generate an atmospheric Rossby wave train which propagates across a large part of the Southern Hemisphere during the austral spring and summer. Our results suggest that modern observed high interannual variability was established across the mid-twentieth century, and that the influence of contemporary equatorial Pacific temperatures may now be a permanent feature across the mid- to high latitudes. |
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Turney, Chris S. M. Fogwill, Christopher J. Palmer, Jonathan G. van Sebille, Erik Thomas, Zoë McGlone, Matt Richardson, Sarah Wilmshurst, Janet M. Fenwick, Pavla Zunz, Violette Goosse, Hugues Wilson, Kerry-Jayne Carter, Lionel Lipson, Mathew Jones, Richard T. Harsch, Melanie Clark, Graeme Marzinelli, Ezequiel Rogers, Tracey Rainsley, Eleanor Ciasto, Laura Waterman, Stephanie Thomas, Elizabeth R. Visbeck, Martin |
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Turney, Chris S. M. Fogwill, Christopher J. Palmer, Jonathan G. van Sebille, Erik Thomas, Zoë McGlone, Matt Richardson, Sarah Wilmshurst, Janet M. Fenwick, Pavla Zunz, Violette Goosse, Hugues Wilson, Kerry-Jayne Carter, Lionel Lipson, Mathew Jones, Richard T. Harsch, Melanie Clark, Graeme Marzinelli, Ezequiel Rogers, Tracey Rainsley, Eleanor Ciasto, Laura Waterman, Stephanie Thomas, Elizabeth R. Visbeck, Martin |
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Tropical forcing of increased Southern Ocean climate variability revealed by a 140-year subantarctic temperature reconstruction |
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Tropical forcing of increased Southern Ocean climate variability revealed by a 140-year subantarctic temperature reconstruction |
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Tropical forcing of increased Southern Ocean climate variability revealed by a 140-year subantarctic temperature reconstruction |
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Tropical forcing of increased Southern Ocean climate variability revealed by a 140-year subantarctic temperature reconstruction |
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Tropical forcing of increased Southern Ocean climate variability revealed by a 140-year subantarctic temperature reconstruction |
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tropical forcing of increased southern ocean climate variability revealed by a 140-year subantarctic temperature reconstruction |
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