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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ftunivmainzpubl:oai:openscience.ub.uni-mainz.de:20.500.12030/7086 2023-05-15T15:59:58+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://openscience.ub.uni-mainz.de/handle/20.500.12030/7086 https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12030/7086 https://doi.org/10.25358/openscience-7072 eng eng Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz http://doi.org/10.25358/openscience-7072 https://openscience.ub.uni-mainz.de/handle/20.500.12030/7086 1944-8007 CC BY https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ openAccess CC-BY Geophysical research letters. 46. 15. 2019. 9042. 9053. - ddc:550 Zeitschriftenaufsatz publishedVersion Text doc-type:article 2019 ftunivmainzpubl https://doi.org/20.500.12030/7086 https://doi.org/10.25358/openscience-7072 2022-09-15T11:48:16Z 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 Gutenberg Open Science (Open-Science-Repository of the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz) Greenland |
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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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Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz |
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