期刊
PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY
卷 371, 期 -, 页码 45-53出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2012.12.014
关键词
Eastern tropical Pacific; ENSO; Paleoclimate; Sea surface temperature; Mollusk; Stable isotopes
资金
- Joint Institute for the Study of Atmosphere and Ocean
- U.S. National Science Foundation [NSF-ATM-0811382]
- U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration [NOAA-NA08OAR4310685]
- ANR research project EL PASO
A critical need exists for quantitative reconstructions of long-term El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) variability in the eastern tropical Pacific. Presented here is a method to quantitatively estimate past changes 1) in the seasonal amplitude of sea surface temperature (SST) in the Peruvian coastal upwelling system and 2) in the amplitude of ENSO-related interannual variability in the eastern tropical Pacific. The seasonal amplitude of SST (Delta T) along the length of the Peruvian coast is strongly correlated with the Nino1 + 2 index. We show that the frequency distribution of Delta T values provided by a modern sample of 13 Mesodesma donacium shells faithfully reflects modern ENSO variability at the regional scale, including the range of anomalies from La Nina to moderate El Nino events, but excludes extreme warm anomalies because of high shell mortality. We propose to use the frequency distribution of ENSO anomalies in paleoclimate studies for comparisons between shell records, coral records, and GCM simulations. Reconstruction uncertainties can be quantified using Monte Carlo simulations. The method presented here opens new perspectives for quantitative paleo-ENSO reconstructions in the Eastern Pacific since it may be applied with any mollusk species from Peru provided at least one annual cycle of SST is faithfully recorded by shell delta O-18. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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