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| Caley, T.; Kim, J-h; Malaize, B.; Giraudeau, J.; Laepple, T.; Caillon, N.; Charlier, K.; Rebaubier, H.; Rossignol, L.; Castaneda, I. S.; Schouten, S.; Damste, J. S. Sinninghe. |
| The Agulhas Current transport of heat and salt from the Indian Ocean into the South Atlantic around South Africa (Agulhas leakage), can affect the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) and, thus, influence global climate. However, efforts to elucidate forcing mechanisms connecting the Agulhas leakage with the upstream dynamics of the current have been hampered by a lack of climate records extracted from the area where the Agulhas current originates. We determine 800-kyr sea surface temperature (SST) and salinity (SSS) records from the "precursor" region of the Agulhas current and show that these records contain strong 100-kyr and 41-kyr cycles. This latter obliquity-driven cycle is nearly in phase with changes in the annual mean insolation and... |
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| Ano: 2011 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00228/33904/32363.pdf |
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| Kasper, Sebastian; Van Der Meer, M. T. J.; Mets, A.; Zahn, R.; Damste, J. S. Sinninghe; Schouten, S.. |
| At the southern tip of Africa, the Agulhas Current reflects back into the Indian Ocean causing so-called "Agulhas rings" to spin off and release relatively warm and saline water into the South Atlantic Ocean. Previous reconstructions of the dynamics of the Agulhas Current, based on paleo-sea surface temperature and sea surface salinity proxies, inferred that Agulhas leakage from the Indian Ocean to the South Atlantic was reduced during glacial stages as a consequence of shifted wind fields and a northwards migration of the subtropical front. Subsequently, this might have led to a buildup of warm saline water in the southern Indian Ocean. To investigate this latter hypothesis, we reconstructed sea surface salinity changes using alkenone delta D, and... |
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| Ano: 2014 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00274/38488/36959.pdf |
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