Nature Communications (Sep 2017)

Rapid global ocean-atmosphere response to Southern Ocean freshening during the last glacial

  • Chris S. M. Turney,
  • Richard T. Jones,
  • Steven J. Phipps,
  • Zoë Thomas,
  • Alan Hogg,
  • A. Peter Kershaw,
  • Christopher J. Fogwill,
  • Jonathan Palmer,
  • Christopher Bronk Ramsey,
  • Florian Adolphi,
  • Raimund Muscheler,
  • Konrad A. Hughen,
  • Richard A. Staff,
  • Mark Grosvenor,
  • Nicholas R. Golledge,
  • Sune Olander Rasmussen,
  • David K. Hutchinson,
  • Simon Haberle,
  • Andrew Lorrey,
  • Gretel Boswijk,
  • Alan Cooper

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00577-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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A challenge for testing mechanisms of past climate change is the precise correlation of palaeoclimate records. Here, through climate modelling and the alignment of terrestrial, ice and marine 14C and 10Be records, the authors show that Southern Ocean freshwater hosing can trigger global change.