Roles of insolation forcing and CO2 forcing on Late Pleistocene seasonal sea surface temperatures

Kyung Eun Lee; Steven C. Clemens; Yoshimi Kubota; Axel Timmermann; Ann Holbourn; Sang-Wook Yeh; Si Woong Bae; Tae Wook Ko

doi:10.1038/s41467-021-26051-y

Nature Communications (Sep 2021)

Roles of insolation forcing and CO2 forcing on Late Pleistocene seasonal sea surface temperatures

Kyung Eun Lee,
Steven C. Clemens,
Yoshimi Kubota,
Axel Timmermann,
Ann Holbourn,
Sang-Wook Yeh,
Si Woong Bae,
Tae Wook Ko

Affiliations

Kyung Eun Lee: Division of Convergence on Marine Science, Korea Maritime and Ocean University
Steven C. Clemens: Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, Brown University
Yoshimi Kubota: National Museum of Nature and Science
Axel Timmermann: Center for Climate Physics Institute for Basic Science, Pusan National University
Ann Holbourn: Institute of Geosciences, Christian-Albrechts-University
Sang-Wook Yeh: Department of Marine Science and Convergence Engineering, Hanyang University, ERICA
Si Woong Bae: OST School, Korea Maritime and Ocean University
Tae Wook Ko: OST School, Korea Maritime and Ocean University

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-26051-y
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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How temperatures at different seasons differ in response to different forcings is not well known. Here, the authors reconstruct annual and seasonal sea surface temperatures in the East China Sea and show that they react differently to CO2 and insolation forcing on glacial-interglacial timescales.

Published in Nature Communications

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