Publication Date:
2008-06-21
Description:
The last two abrupt warmings at the onset of our present warm interglacial period, interrupted by the Younger Dryas cooling event, were investigated at high temporal resolution from the North Greenland Ice Core Project ice core. The deuterium excess, a proxy of Greenland precipitation moisture source, switched mode within 1 to 3 years over these transitions and initiated a more gradual change (over 50 years) of the Greenland air temperature, as recorded by stable water isotopes. The onsets of both abrupt Greenland warmings were slightly preceded by decreasing Greenland dust deposition, reflecting the wetting of Asian deserts. A northern shift of the Intertropical Convergence Zone could be the trigger of these abrupt shifts of Northern Hemisphere atmospheric circulation, resulting in changes of 2 to 4 kelvin in Greenland moisture source temperature from one year to the next.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Steffensen, Jorgen Peder -- Andersen, Katrine K -- Bigler, Matthias -- Clausen, Henrik B -- Dahl-Jensen, Dorthe -- Fischer, Hubertus -- Goto-Azuma, Kumiko -- Hansson, Margareta -- Johnsen, Sigfus J -- Jouzel, Jean -- Masson-Delmotte, Valerie -- Popp, Trevor -- Rasmussen, Sune O -- Rothlisberger, Regine -- Ruth, Urs -- Stauffer, Bernhard -- Siggaard-Andersen, Marie-Louise -- Sveinbjornsdottir, Arny E -- Svensson, Anders -- White, James W C -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2008 Aug 1;321(5889):680-4. doi: 10.1126/science.1157707. Epub 2008 Jun 19.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Centre for Ice and Climate, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Juliane Maries Vej 30, DK-2100 Copenhagen OE, Denmark. jps@gfy.ku.dk〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18566247" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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