Centennial-scale trends in the Southern Annular Mode revealed by hemisphere-wide fire and hydroclimatic trends over the past 2400 years
Millennial-scale latitudinal shifts in the southern westerly winds (SWW) drive changes in Southern Ocean upwelling, leading to changes in atmospheric CO2 levels, thereby affecting the global climate and carbon cycle. Our aim here is to understand whether century-scale shifts in the SWW also drive ch...
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ftunivtasmania:oai:eprints.utas.edu.au:28815 2023-05-15T13:31:53+02:00 Centennial-scale trends in the Southern Annular Mode revealed by hemisphere-wide fire and hydroclimatic trends over the past 2400 years Fletcher, MS Benson, A Bowman, DMJS Gadd, PS Heijnis, H Mariani, M Saunders, KM Wolfe, BB Zawadzki, A 2018 https://eprints.utas.edu.au/28815/ unknown Geological Soc America Fletcher, MS, Benson, A, Bowman, DMJS orcid:0000-0003-2215-7685 , Gadd, PS, Heijnis, H, Mariani, M, Saunders, KM, Wolfe, BB and Zawadzki, A 2018 , 'Centennial-scale trends in the Southern Annular Mode revealed by hemisphere-wide fire and hydroclimatic trends over the past 2400 years' , Geology, vol. 46, no. 4 , pp. 363-366 , doi:10.1130/G39661.1 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/G39661.1>. atmospheric CO2 Southern Ocean lake sediment Tasmania Article PeerReviewed 2018 ftunivtasmania https://doi.org/10.1130/G39661.1 2021-09-20T22:17:01Z Millennial-scale latitudinal shifts in the southern westerly winds (SWW) drive changes in Southern Ocean upwelling, leading to changes in atmospheric CO2 levels, thereby affecting the global climate and carbon cycle. Our aim here is to understand whether century-scale shifts in the SWW also drive changes in atmospheric CO2 content. We report new multiproxy lake sediment data from southwest Tasmania, Australia, that show centennial-scale changes in vegetation and fire activity over the past 2400 yr. We compare our results with existing data from southern South America and reveal synchronous and in-phase centennial-scale trends in vegetation and fire activity between southwest Tasmania and southern South America over the past 2400 yr. Interannual to centennial-scale rainfall anomalies and fire activity in both these regions are significantly correlated with shifts in the SWW associated with the Southern Annular Mode (SAM; atmospheric variability of the Southern Hemisphere). Thus, we interpret the centennial-scale trends we have identified as reflecting century-scale SAM-like shifts in the SWW over the past 2400 yr. We identify covariance between our inferred century-scale shifts in the SWW and Antarctic ice core CO2 values, demonstrating that the SWW-CO2 relationship operating at a millennial scale also operates at a centennial scale through the past 2400 yr. Our results indicate a possible westerly-driven modulation of recent increases in global atmospheric CO2 content that could potentially exacerbate current greenhouse gas–related warming. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic ice core Southern Ocean University of Tasmania: UTas ePrints Antarctic Southern Ocean Geology 46 4 363 366 |
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Millennial-scale latitudinal shifts in the southern westerly winds (SWW) drive changes in Southern Ocean upwelling, leading to changes in atmospheric CO2 levels, thereby affecting the global climate and carbon cycle. Our aim here is to understand whether century-scale shifts in the SWW also drive changes in atmospheric CO2 content. We report new multiproxy lake sediment data from southwest Tasmania, Australia, that show centennial-scale changes in vegetation and fire activity over the past 2400 yr. We compare our results with existing data from southern South America and reveal synchronous and in-phase centennial-scale trends in vegetation and fire activity between southwest Tasmania and southern South America over the past 2400 yr. Interannual to centennial-scale rainfall anomalies and fire activity in both these regions are significantly correlated with shifts in the SWW associated with the Southern Annular Mode (SAM; atmospheric variability of the Southern Hemisphere). Thus, we interpret the centennial-scale trends we have identified as reflecting century-scale SAM-like shifts in the SWW over the past 2400 yr. We identify covariance between our inferred century-scale shifts in the SWW and Antarctic ice core CO2 values, demonstrating that the SWW-CO2 relationship operating at a millennial scale also operates at a centennial scale through the past 2400 yr. Our results indicate a possible westerly-driven modulation of recent increases in global atmospheric CO2 content that could potentially exacerbate current greenhouse gas–related warming. |
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Fletcher, MS Benson, A Bowman, DMJS Gadd, PS Heijnis, H Mariani, M Saunders, KM Wolfe, BB Zawadzki, A |
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Fletcher, MS Benson, A Bowman, DMJS Gadd, PS Heijnis, H Mariani, M Saunders, KM Wolfe, BB Zawadzki, A |
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Centennial-scale trends in the Southern Annular Mode revealed by hemisphere-wide fire and hydroclimatic trends over the past 2400 years |
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Centennial-scale trends in the Southern Annular Mode revealed by hemisphere-wide fire and hydroclimatic trends over the past 2400 years |
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Centennial-scale trends in the Southern Annular Mode revealed by hemisphere-wide fire and hydroclimatic trends over the past 2400 years |
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Centennial-scale trends in the Southern Annular Mode revealed by hemisphere-wide fire and hydroclimatic trends over the past 2400 years |
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Centennial-scale trends in the Southern Annular Mode revealed by hemisphere-wide fire and hydroclimatic trends over the past 2400 years |
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centennial-scale trends in the southern annular mode revealed by hemisphere-wide fire and hydroclimatic trends over the past 2400 years |
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Fletcher, MS, Benson, A, Bowman, DMJS orcid:0000-0003-2215-7685 , Gadd, PS, Heijnis, H, Mariani, M, Saunders, KM, Wolfe, BB and Zawadzki, A 2018 , 'Centennial-scale trends in the Southern Annular Mode revealed by hemisphere-wide fire and hydroclimatic trends over the past 2400 years' , Geology, vol. 46, no. 4 , pp. 363-366 , doi:10.1130/G39661.1 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/G39661.1>. |
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