Publication Date:
2024-03-02
Description:
Abstract: The Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) encompasses the heaviest rain belt on the Earth. Few direct long-term records, especially in the Pacific, limit our understanding of long-term natural variability for predicting future ITCZ migration. Here we present a tropical precipitation record from the Southern Hemisphere covering the past 282,000 years, inferred from a marine sedimentary sequence collected off the eastern coast of Papua New Guinea. Unlike the precession paradigm expressed in its East Asian counterpart, our record shows that the western Pacific ITCZ migration was influenced by combined precession and obliquity changes. The obliquity forcing could be primarily delivered by a cross-hemispherical thermal/pressure contrast, resulting from the asymmetric continental configuration between Asia and Australia in a coupled East Asian-Australian circulation system. Our finding suggests that the obliquity forcing may play a more important role in global hydroclimate cycles than previously thought.
Keywords:
After Lo et al. 2017; AGE; CALYPSO2; Calypso Corer II; DEPTH, sediment/rock; Egum; Globigerinoides ruber, Neodymium/Calcium ratio; Globigerinoides sacculifer, Neodymium/Calcium ratio; IMAGES XIII - PECTEN; Intertropical Convergence Zone; Marion Dufresne (1995); MD052925; MD05-2925; MD148; Monsoon; Orbital pacing; Pulleniatina obliquiloculata, Neodymium/Calcium ratio; Western Pacific Warm Pool
Type:
Dataset
Format:
text/tab-separated-values, 548 data points
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