Highest ocean heat in four centuries places Great Barrier Reef in danger

BJ Henley, HV McGregor, AD King, O Hoegh-Guldberg… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Mass coral bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) in Australia between 2016 and 2024
was driven by high sea surface temperatures (SST). The likelihood of temperature-induced …

Hydroclimate seasonality from paired coral Sr/Ca and δ18O records of Kikai Island, Southern Japan: Evidence of East Asian monsoon during mid-to late Holocene

KL Garas, T Watanabe, A Yamazaki - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The East Asian Monsoon (EAM) modulates the seasonal variability of sea surface
temperature (SST), sea surface salinity (SSS), and rainfall in the region. However, seasonal …

[HTML][HTML] Reconstructing ocean subsurface salinity at high resolution using a machine learning approach

T Tian, L Cheng, G Wang, J Abraham… - Earth System …, 2022 - essd.copernicus.org
A gridded ocean subsurface salinity dataset with global coverage is useful for research on
climate change and its variability. Here, we explore the feed-forward neural network (FFNN) …

North Flinders Reef (Coral Sea, Australia) Porites sp. corals as a candidate Global boundary Stratotype Section and Point for the Anthropocene series

J Zinke, NE Cantin, KL DeLong… - The Anthropocene …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Corals are unique in the suite of proposed Anthropocene Global Boundary Stratotype
Section and Point (GSSP) archives, as living organisms that produce aragonite …

[HTML][HTML] Massive corals record deforestation in Malaysian Borneo through sediments in river discharge

W Naciri, A Boom, M Payne, N Browne… - …, 2023 - bg.copernicus.org
Logging of tropical primary forests is a widely acknowledged global issue threatening
biodiversity hotspots and indigenous communities leading to significant land erosion and …

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 …

Equatorial Undercurrent Influence on Surface Seawater δ18O Values in the Galápagos

JL Conroy, NK Murray, GS Patterson… - Geophysical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Stable isotopes of oxygen (δ18O) in seawater reflect the combined influences of ocean
circulation and atmospheric moisture balance. However, it is difficult to disentangle …

Natural and Anthropogenic Climate Variability Signals in a 237‐Year‐Long Coral Record From the Philippines

M Inoue, A Fukushima, M Chihara… - Paleoceanography …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Both proxy and model studies conducted to understand anthropogenic warming have
revealed historical variations in sea‐surface temperature (SST) since the industrial …

Paired coral Sr/Ca and δ18O records reveal increasing ENSO influence on Malaysian Borneo's hydroclimate

W Naciri, A Boom, TK Watanabe… - Science of the Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract The El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is a worldwide climate phenomenon
impacting temperatures and precipitation regimes across the globe. Previous studies have …

Impact of intra‐skeletal calcite on the preservation of coral geochemistry and implications for paleoclimate reconstruction

MM Weerabaddana, DM Thompson… - Paleoceanography …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The geochemistry of tropical coral skeletons is widely used in paleoclimate reconstructions.
However, sub‐aerially exposed corals may be affected by diagenesis, altering the aragonite …