Nature Communications (Jan 2023)

Intermediate water circulation drives distribution of Pliocene Oxygen Minimum Zones

  • Catherine V. Davis,
  • Elizabeth C. Sibert,
  • Peter H. Jacobs,
  • Natalie Burls,
  • Pincelli M. Hull

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-35083-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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The Pliocene shows that a warmer world can support both expanded and contracted marine Oxygen Minimum Zones. While oxygen distributions were overall like today, there was less low-oxygen water in the North Pacific and more in the North Atlantic