Heat and freshwater changes in the Indian Ocean region

CC Ummenhofer, SA Murty, J Sprintall, T Lee… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract Across the Indo-Pacific region, rapid increases in surface temperatures, ocean heat
content and concomitant hydrological changes have implications for sea level rise, ocean …

Identifying Hydro‐Sensitive Coral δ18O Records for Improved High‐Resolution Temperature and Salinity Reconstructions

DM Thompson, JL Conroy, BL Konecky… - Geophysical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Stable oxygen isotopic ratios in corals (δ18Ocoral) are commonly utilized to reconstruct
climate variability beyond the limit of instrumental observations. These measurements …

Coral‐based sea surface salinity reconstructions and the role of observational uncertainties in inferred variability and trends

EV Reed, DM Thompson… - Paleoceanography and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Climate observations in much of the tropical oceans are scarce during most of the 20th
century, so paleoclimate proxies are needed to understand the full range of natural climate …

The CoralHydro2k Database: a global, actively curated compilation of coral δ18O and Sr / Ca proxy records of tropical ocean hydrology and temperature for the …

RM Walter, HR Sayani, T Felis, KM Cobb… - Earth System …, 2022 - essd.copernicus.org
The response of the hydrological cycle to anthropogenic climate change, especially across
the tropical oceans, remains poorly understood due to the scarcity of long instrumental …

Pacific‐driven salinity variability in the Timor Passage since 1777

EW Patterson, JE Cole, KA Dyez… - Paleoceanography …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Salinity in the Indonesian seas integrates regional oceanographic and atmospheric
processes, such as Indonesian Throughflow (ITF) and monsoon rainfall. Here we present a …

Climate model teleconnection patterns govern the Niño-3.4 response to early nineteenth-century volcanism in coral-based data assimilation reconstructions

SC Sanchez, GJ Hakim, CP Saenger - Journal of Climate, 2021 - journals.ametsoc.org
Scientific understanding of low-frequency tropical Pacific variability, especially responses to
perturbations in radiative forcing, suffers from short observational records, sparse proxy …

Modern and sub-fossil corals suggest reduced temperature variability in the eastern pole of the Indian Ocean Dipole during the medieval climate anomaly

SY Cahyarini, M Pfeiffer, L Reuning, V Liebetrau… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
We present two 40 year records of monthly coral Sr/Ca ratios from the eastern pole of the
Indian Ocean Dipole. A modern coral covers the period from 1968 to 2007. A sub-fossil coral …

Tracing the stepwise warming trend in the tropical Indian Ocean through a 40-year record of oxygen isotope composition in Maldives corals

K Lin, T Han, K Morgan, PS Kench, YG Chen… - Earth and Planetary …, 2024 - Elsevier
Sea surface temperature (SST) across the tropical Indian Ocean is warming at a significantly
higher rate than other tropical oceans over the past two decades. However, the cause of the …

The Indonesian throughflow and its impact on biogeochemistry in the Indonesian seas

T Edwards, M Yukio - … Journal on Science and Technology for …, 2020 - ajstd.ubd.edu.bn
It has been widely known that the Indonesian Throughflow (ITF) is an important inter-ocean
connection with unique and complex oceanographic and geographic conditions, as well as …

Environmental impact on the mechanical properties of Porites spp. corals

MA Moynihan, S Amini, NF Goodkin, JTI Tanzil… - Coral Reefs, 2021 - Springer
Despite the economic and ecological importance of corals' skeletal structure, as well as their
predicted vulnerability to future climate change, few studies have examined the skeletal …