Raimund Muscheler
Professor
Lagged atmospheric circulation response in the Black Sea region to Greenland Interstadial 10
Författare
Summary, in English
Northern Hemispheric high-latitude climate variations during the last glacial are expected to propagate globally in a complex way. Investigating the evolution of these variations requires a precise synchronization of the considered environmental archives. Aligning the globally common production rate variations of the cosmogenic radionuclide 10Be in different archives provides a tool for such synchronizations. Here, we present a 10Be record at <40-y resolution along with subdecadal proxy records from one Black Sea sediment core around Greenland Interstadial 10 (GI-10) ∼41 ka BP and the Laschamp geomagnetic excursion. We synchronized our 10Be record to that from Greenland ice cores based on its globally common production rate variations. The synchronized environmental proxy records reveal a bipartite climate response in the Black Sea region at the onset of GI-10. First, in phase with Greenland warming, reduced sedimentary coastal ice rafted detritus contents indicate less severe winters. Second, and with a lag of 190 (± 44) y, an increase in the detrital K/Ti ratio and authigenic Ca precipitation point to enhanced regional precipitation and warmer lake surface temperatures. We explain the lagged climatic response by a shift in the dominant mode of atmospheric circulation, likely connected with a time-transgressive adjustment of the regional thermal ocean interior to interstadial conditions.
Avdelning/ar
- Kvartärgeologi
- MERGE: ModElling the Regional and Global Earth system
Publiceringsår
2020
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
28649-28654
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Volym
117
Issue
46
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
National Academy of Sciences
Ämne
- Climate Research
- Geology
Nyckelord
- archive synchronization
- Black Sea sediments
- climate
- cosmogenic radionuclides
- phase relationship
Aktiv
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 1091-6490