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Migration of the subtropical front as a modulator of glacial climate

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  • Edouard Bard

    (CEREGE (UMR 6635), Collège de France, University Paul-Cézanne Aix-Marseille, CNRS, IRD, Europole de l'Arbois BP 80, 13545 Aix-en-Provence Cedex 4, France)

  • Rosalind E. M. Rickaby

    (Oxford University, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PR, UK)

Abstract

All glacials are not alike Several lines of evidence, including the varying extent of Northern Hemisphere ice sheets, point to fluctuating severity of glacial periods, despite the fact that ice cores extracted from the Antarctic ice sheet suggest that glacial conditions and the relationship between temperatures and atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations have been constant for the past 800,000 years. A new 800,000-year record of sea surface temperature and ocean productivity, from an ocean sediment core obtained from the south-west Indian Ocean, reveals that during the coldest glacial periods, the subtropical front off the coast of South Africa migrated northwards, altering the strength of the Agulhas Current that carries heat and salt to the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation. This work suggests that the degree of northwards migration of the subtropical front can act to partially decouple global climate from atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations.

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  • Edouard Bard & Rosalind E. M. Rickaby, 2009. "Migration of the subtropical front as a modulator of glacial climate," Nature, Nature, vol. 460(7253), pages 380-383, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:460:y:2009:i:7253:d:10.1038_nature08189
    DOI: 10.1038/nature08189
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    1. Torben Struve & David J. Wilson & Sophia K. V. Hines & Jess F. Adkins & Tina Flierdt, 2022. "A deep Tasman outflow of Pacific waters during the last glacial period," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 13(1), pages 1-10, December.

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