Monthly Bonaire coral Sr/Ca from the last interglacial, 120.5 -129.7 ka ago ...

Reconstructions of last interglacial (LIG, MIS 5e, ~127-117 ka) climate offer insights into the natural response and variability of the climate system during a period partially analogous to future climate change scenarios. We present well preserved fossil corals (Diploria strigosa) recovered from the southern Caribbean island of Bonaire (Caribbean Netherlands). These have been precisely dated by the 230Th/U-method to between 130 and 120 ka ago. Annual banding of the coral skeleton enabled construction of time windows of monthly resolved strontium/calcium (Sr/Ca) temperature proxy records. In c... Mehr ...

Verfasser: Brocas, William M
Felis, Thomas
Obert, J Christina
Gierz, Paul
Lohmann, Gerrit
Scholz, Denis
Kölling, Martin
Scheffers, Sander R
Dokumenttyp: Supplementary Publication Series of Datasets
Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
Verlag/Hrsg.: PANGAEA
Schlagwörter: Center for Marine Environmental Sciences MARUM / Integrierte Analyse zwischeneiszeitlicher Klimadynamik INTERDYNAMIK
Sprache: Englisch
Permalink: https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-29388672
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Link(s) : https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.862148

Reconstructions of last interglacial (LIG, MIS 5e, ~127-117 ka) climate offer insights into the natural response and variability of the climate system during a period partially analogous to future climate change scenarios. We present well preserved fossil corals (Diploria strigosa) recovered from the southern Caribbean island of Bonaire (Caribbean Netherlands). These have been precisely dated by the 230Th/U-method to between 130 and 120 ka ago. Annual banding of the coral skeleton enabled construction of time windows of monthly resolved strontium/calcium (Sr/Ca) temperature proxy records. In conjunction with a previously published 118 ka coral record, our eight records of up to 37 years in length, cover a total of 105 years within the LIG period. From these, sea surface temperature (SST) seasonality and variability in the tropical North Atlantic Ocean is reconstructed. We detect similar to modern SST seasonality of ~2.9 °C during the early (130 ka) and the late LIG (120-118 ka). However, within the mid-LIG, ... : Supplement to: Brocas, William M; Felis, Thomas; Obert, J Christina; Gierz, Paul; Lohmann, Gerrit; Scholz, Denis; Kölling, Martin; Scheffers, Sander R (2016): Last interglacial temperature seasonality reconstructed from tropical Atlantic corals. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 449, 418-429 ...