Climate impact of late quaternary equatorial Pacific sea surface temperature variations

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作者
Lea, DW [1 ]
Pak, DK
Spero, HJ
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[1] Univ Calif Santa Barbara, Dept Geol Sci, Santa Barbara, CA 93106 USA
[2] Univ Calif Santa Barbara, Inst Marine Sci, Santa Barbara, CA 93106 USA
[3] Univ Calif Davis, Dept Geol, Davis, CA 95616 USA
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10.1126/science.289.5485.1719
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O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
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摘要
Magnesium/calcium data from planktonic foraminifera in equatorial Pacific sediment cores demonstrate that tropical Pacific sea surface temperatures (SSTs) were 2.8 degrees +/- 0.7 degrees C colder than the present at the Last glacial maximum. Glacial-interglacial temperature differences as great as 5 degrees C are observed over the Last 450 thousand years. Changes in SST coincide with changes in Antarctic air temperature and precede changes in continental ice volume by about 3 thousand years, suggesting that tropical cooling played a major role in driving ice-age climate. Comparison of SST estimates from eastern and western sites indicates that the equatorial Pacific zonal SST gradient was similar or somewhat Larger during glacial episodes. Extraction of a salinity proxy from the magnesium/calcium and oxygen isotope data indicates that transport of water vapor into the western Pacific was enhanced during glacial episodes.
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