Coral Sr/Ca records from Bonaire Holocene corals ...

Proxy reconstructions of tropical Atlantic sea surface temperature (SST) that extend beyond the period of instrumental observations have primarily focused on centennial to millennial variability rather than on seasonal to multidecadal variability. Here we present monthly-resolved records of Sr/Ca (a proxy of SST) from fossil annually-banded Diploria strigosa corals from Bonaire (southern Caribbean Sea). The individual corals provide time-windows of up to 68 years length, and the total number of 295 years of record allows for assessing the natural range of seasonal to multidecadal SST variabili... Mehr ...

Verfasser: Giry, Cyril
Felis, Thomas
Kölling, Martin
Scholz, Denis
Wei, Wei
Lohmann, Gerrit
Scheffers, Sander R
Dokumenttyp: Artikel
Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
Verlag/Hrsg.: PANGAEA
Schlagwörter: Drilling/drill rig / CaribClim_Coral_Jan 2009 / CaribClim_Coral_2006 / Center for Marine Environmental Sciences MARUM / Integrierte Analyse zwischeneiszeitlicher Klimadynamik INTERDYNAMIK
Sprache: Englisch
Permalink: https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-28972902
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Link(s) : https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.778090

Proxy reconstructions of tropical Atlantic sea surface temperature (SST) that extend beyond the period of instrumental observations have primarily focused on centennial to millennial variability rather than on seasonal to multidecadal variability. Here we present monthly-resolved records of Sr/Ca (a proxy of SST) from fossil annually-banded Diploria strigosa corals from Bonaire (southern Caribbean Sea). The individual corals provide time-windows of up to 68 years length, and the total number of 295 years of record allows for assessing the natural range of seasonal to multidecadal SST variability in the western tropical Atlantic during snapshots of the mid- to late Holocene. Comparable to modern climate, the coral Sr/Ca records reveal that mid- to late Holocene SST was characterised by clear seasonal cycles, persistent quasi-biennial and prominent interannual as well as inter- to multidecadal-scale variability. However, the magnitude of SST variations on these timescales has varied over the last 6.2 ka. The ... : Supplement to: Giry, Cyril; Felis, Thomas; Kölling, Martin; Scholz, Denis; Wei, Wei; Lohmann, Gerrit; Scheffers, Sander R (2012): Mid- to late Holocene changes in tropical Atlantic temperature seasonality and interannual to multidecadal variability documented in southern Caribbean corals. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 331-332, 187–200 ...