Neodymium isotope evidence for coupled Southern Ocean circulation and Antarctic climate throughout the last 118,000 years

TJ Williams, EE Martin, E Sikes, A Starr… - Quaternary Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
The chain of events surrounding the initiation and intensification of the last glacial cycle
remain relatively poorly understood. In particular, the role of Southern Ocean …

[HTML][HTML] The Prados del Cervunal morainic complex: Evidence of a MIS 2 glaciation in the Iberian Central System synchronous to the global LGM

RM Carrasco, V Turu, RL Soteres… - Quaternary Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
The area of Prados del Cervunal (PC) is an intra-morainic topographic depression located at
1800 m asl in the divide or interfluve between Garganta de Gredos and Garganta del Pinar …

Iceberg melting substantially modifies oceanic heat flux towards a major Greenlandic tidewater glacier

BJ Davison, TR Cowton, FR Cottier, AJ Sole - Nature communications, 2020 - nature.com
Fjord dynamics influence oceanic heat flux to the Greenland ice sheet. Submarine iceberg
melting releases large volumes of freshwater within Greenland's fjords, yet its impact on fjord …

Global and regional temperature change over the past 4.5 million years

PU Clark, JD Shakun, Y Rosenthal, P Köhler… - Science, 2024 - science.org
Much of our understanding of Cenozoic climate is based on the record of δ18O measured in
benthic foraminifera. However, this measurement reflects a combined signal of global …

Indo-pacific Walker circulation drove Pleistocene African aridification

HJL Van der Lubbe, IR Hall, S Barker, SR Hemming… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Today, the eastern African hydroclimate is tightly linked to fluctuations in the zonal
atmospheric Walker circulation,. A growing body of evidence indicates that this circulation …

Ocean currents break up a tabular iceberg

A Huth, A Adcroft, O Sergienko, N Khan - Science Advances, 2022 - science.org
In December 2020, giant tabular iceberg A68a (surface area 3900 km2) broke up in open
ocean much deeper than its keel, indicating that the breakage was not immediately caused …

Mid-Pleistocene climate transition triggered by Antarctic Ice Sheet growth

Z An, W Zhou, Z Zhang, X Zhang, Z Liu, Y Sun… - Science, 2024 - science.org
Despite extensive investigation, the nature and causes of the Mid-Pleistocene Transition
remain enigmatic. In this work, we assess its linkage to asynchronous development of …

A salty deep ocean as a prerequisite for glacial termination

G Knorr, S Barker, X Zhang, G Lohmann, X Gong… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Deglacial transitions of the middle to late Pleistocene (terminations) are linked to gradual
changes in insolation accompanied by abrupt shifts in ocean circulation. However, the …

Middle Pleistocene re-organization of Australian monsoon

L Gong, A Holbourn, W Kuhnt, B Opdyke… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The sensitivity of the Australian Monsoon to changing climate boundary conditions remains
controversial due to limited understanding of forcing processes and past variability. Here, we …

Strengthening Atlantic inflow across the mid‐Pleistocene transition

S Barker, X Zhang, L Jonkers… - Paleoceanography …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The development of larger and longer lasting northern hemisphere ice sheets during the mid‐
Pleistocene Transition (MPT) coincided with global cooling. Here, we show that surface …