In:
Nature Communications, Springer Science and Business Media LLC, Vol. 9, No. 1 ( 2018-03-06)
Abstract:
The δD temperature proxy in Antarctic ice cores varies in parallel with CO 2 through glacial cycles. However, these variables display a puzzling asynchrony. Well-dated records of Southern Ocean temperature will provide crucial information because the Southern Ocean is likely key in regulating CO 2 variations. Here, we perform multiple isotopic analyses on an Antarctic ice core and estimate temperature variations at this site and in the oceanic moisture source over the past 720,000 years, which extend the longest records by 300,000 years. Antarctic temperature is affected by large variations in local insolation that are induced by obliquity. At the obliquity periodicity, the Antarctic and ocean temperatures lag annual mean insolation. Further, the magnitude of the phase lag is minimal during low eccentricity periods, suggesting that secular changes in the global carbon cycle and the ocean circulation modulate the phase relationship among temperatures, CO 2 and insolation in the obliquity frequency band.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
2041-1723
DOI:
10.1038/s41467-018-03328-3
Language:
English
Publisher:
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Publication Date:
2018
detail.hit.zdb_id:
2553671-0
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