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Sustained North Atlantic warming drove anomalously intense MIS 11c interglacial

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  • Hsun-Ming Hu

    (National Taiwan University
    The University of Queensland
    National Taiwan University)

  • Gianluca Marino

    (Palaeoclimatology Lab, Universidade de Vigo)

  • Carlos Pérez-Mejías

    (Xi’an Jiaotong University)

  • Christoph Spötl

    (University of Innsbruck)

  • Yusuke Yokoyama

    (The University of Tokyo
    The University of Tokyo)

  • Jimin Yu

    (Laoshan Laboratory
    The Australian National University)

  • Eelco Rohling

    (Utrecht University
    National Oceanography Centre)

  • Akihiro Kano

    (The University of Tokyo)

  • Patrick Ludwig

    (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT))

  • Joaquim G. Pinto

    (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT))

  • Véronique Michel

    (CEPAM
    Géoazur)

  • Patricia Valensi

    (Institut de Paléontologie Humaine)

  • Xin Zhang

    (Fujian Normal University)

  • Xiuyang Jiang

    (Fujian Normal University)

  • Horng-Sheng Mii

    (National Taiwan Normal University)

  • Wei-Yi Chien

    (National Taiwan University)

  • Hsien-Chen Tsai

    (National Taiwan University)

  • Wen-Hui Sung

    (National Taiwan University)

  • Chia-Hao Hsu

    (National Taiwan University)

  • Elisabetta Starnini

    (University of Pisa)

  • Marta Zunino

    (Piazzale D. Maineri 1)

  • Chuan-Chou Shen

    (National Taiwan University
    National Taiwan University)

Abstract

The Marine Isotope Stage (MIS) 11c interglacial and its preceding glacial termination represent an enigmatically intense climate response to relatively weak insolation forcing. So far, a lack of radiometric age control has confounded a detailed assessment of the insolation-climate relationship during this period. Here, we present 230Th-dated speleothem proxy data from northern Italy and compare them with palaeoclimate records from the North Atlantic region. We find that interglacial conditions started in subtropical to middle latitudes at 423.1 ± 1.3 thousand years (kyr) before present, during a first weak insolation maximum, whereas northern high latitudes remained glaciated (sea level ~ 40 m below present). Some 14.5 ± 2.8 kyr after this early subtropical onset, peak interglacial conditions were reached globally, with sea level 6–13 m above present, despite weak insolation forcing. We attribute this remarkably intense climate response to an exceptionally long (~15 kyr) episode of intense poleward heat flux transport prior to the MIS 11c optimum.

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  • Hsun-Ming Hu & Gianluca Marino & Carlos Pérez-Mejías & Christoph Spötl & Yusuke Yokoyama & Jimin Yu & Eelco Rohling & Akihiro Kano & Patrick Ludwig & Joaquim G. Pinto & Véronique Michel & Patricia Val, 2024. "Sustained North Atlantic warming drove anomalously intense MIS 11c interglacial," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 15(1), pages 1-11, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:15:y:2024:i:1:d:10.1038_s41467-024-50207-1
    DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-50207-1
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