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Northeastern Caribbean Late Holocene SST Reconstruction

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Nyberg, J., B.A. Malmgren, A. Kuijpers, and A. Winter. 2002. A centennial-scale variability of tropical North Atlantic surface hydrography during the late Holocene. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 183:25-41.
Data Coverage North: 17.88 * South: 17.88
West: -66.6 * East: -66.6
Altitude: -349 m

Start Year: 1817 14C yr BP * End Year: -43 14C yr BP

Data:     Please Cite Data Contributors!
  nyberg2002
  prb12-tab.txt
  prp12-tab.txt

Summary:

Sea-surface temperature (SST) and sea-surface salinity (SSS) fluctuations in the northeastern Caribbean have been reconstructed through the last 2000 yr using an artificial neural network and d18O analyses of planktonic foraminifera. A warmer period prevailed in the NE Caribbean from AD ~700-950, which may reflect the occurrence of stronger and/or more frequent El Niño events. A ~2°C cooling of winter SSTs, from AD ~1400 to 1550, coincides with the occurrence of reduced solar output, the Spörer event. Episodes of lower SSSs with marked minima at the onsets of the Dark Ages in Europe (AD ~500-600) and Little Ice Age (AD ~1400) are cyclically recurrent at intervals of 200-400 yr, and coincide with drier periods in Mexico. This may indicate that the tropical Atlantic evaporation-precipitation budget and SSSs are affected by a centennial-scale modulation involving the freshwater export (import) from (into) the Atlantic Ocean. Coeval changes recorded in the deep North Atlantic circulation indicate that low-latitude SSS anomalies may be advected polewards by the North Atlantic current system, thus affecting deep-ocean convection and strength of the thermohaline circulation.
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Parameters:

delta O18 PDB (Globigerinoides ruber (white)); Sea Surface Temperature (C, February); Age in years BC/AD; Sea Surface Temperature (C, August); Salinity

Complete XML Record:

noaa-ocean-2566  (Last Revised: 2007-12-21 )

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