Enhanced North Pacific subtropical gyre circulation during the late Holocene

Yancheng Zhang; Xufeng Zheng; Deming Kong; Hong Yan; Zhonghui Liu

doi:10.1038/s41467-021-26218-7

Nature Communications (Oct 2021)

Enhanced North Pacific subtropical gyre circulation during the late Holocene

Yancheng Zhang,
Xufeng Zheng,
Deming Kong,
Hong Yan,
Zhonghui Liu

Affiliations

Yancheng Zhang: School of Marine Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University
Xufeng Zheng: State Key Laboratory of Marine Resource Utilization in South China Sea, Hainan University
Deming Kong: College of Ocean and Meteorology, Guangdong Ocean University
Hong Yan: State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology, Institute of Earth Environment, Center for Excellence in Quaternary Science and Global Change, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Zhonghui Liu: Department of Earth Sciences, The University of Hong Kong

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-26218-7
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Long-term variability of the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre (NPSG) circulation is not well understood. Here, the authors present data from different boundary currents that shows an enhanced NPSG circulation since ~3000-4000 years ago, linked to a southward migration of the Intertropical Convergence Zone.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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