2000 Years of Sub-Antarctic Climate: The Use of n-alkanes and Compound-Specific Isotopes for the Paleoclimate Reconstruction of Auckland Island

• Main Author: Aebig, Christopher Hugh Floyd
• Other Authors: Hageman, Kimberly, Moy, Chris
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: University of Otago 2017
• Subjects: n-alkane; paleoclimate; SHWWs; Auckland Islands; geochemistry; holocene; Antarctic; Lake Thomas; New Zealand; Antarc*; Auckland Island
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10523/7787

The Southern Ocean’s air-sea CO2 flux is heavily influenced by the strength and position of the Southern Hemisphere westerly winds (SHWWs) over the southern mid-latitudes. An increasingly positive southern annular mode (SAM) causes these winds to intensify and move southward. This results in the upw...