Nature Communications (Jun 2021)

Orbital- and millennial-scale Antarctic Circumpolar Current variability in Drake Passage over the past 140,000 years

  • Shuzhuang Wu,
  • Lester Lembke-Jene,
  • Frank Lamy,
  • Helge W. Arz,
  • Norbert Nowaczyk,
  • Wenshen Xiao,
  • Xu Zhang,
  • H. Christian Hass,
  • Jürgen Titschack,
  • Xufeng Zheng,
  • Jiabo Liu,
  • Levin Dumm,
  • Bernhard Diekmann,
  • Dirk Nürnberg,
  • Ralf Tiedemann,
  • Gerhard Kuhn

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24264-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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How the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) changed on glacial-interglacial time scales is not well known. Here, the authors present a 140,000 year long sediment record from the Drake passage and show both glacial-interglacial as well as millennial-scale variability which are linked to Atlantic variability and marine carbon storage.