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Research article
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08 Nov 2016
Research article |
| 08 Nov 2016
Changes in the geometry and strength of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation during the last glacial (20–50 ka)
Pierre Burckel
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, LSCE/IPSL,
CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Université Sorbonne Paris
Cité, 75238 Paris, France
Claire Waelbroeck
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, LSCE/IPSL,
CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Yiming Luo
Dalhousie University, Department of Oceanography, 1355 Oxford Street,
P.O. BOX 15000, Halifax, NS B3H 4J1, Canada
Didier M. Roche
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, LSCE/IPSL,
CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Department of Earth Sciences, Earth and Climate Cluster, Faculty of
Earth and Life Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the
Netherlands
Sylvain Pichat
Laboratoire de Géologie de Lyon (LGL-TPE), Ecole Normale
Supérieure de Lyon, 46 allée d'Italie, 69007 Lyon, France
Samuel L. Jaccard
Institute of Geological Sciences and Oeschger Centre for Climate
Change Research, University of Bern, Baltzerstr. 1 & 3, 3012, Bern,
Switzerland
Jeanne Gherardi
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, LSCE/IPSL,
CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Aline Govin
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, LSCE/IPSL,
CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Jörg Lippold
Institute of Geological Sciences and Oeschger Centre for Climate
Change Research, University of Bern, Baltzerstr. 1 & 3, 3012, Bern,
Switzerland
François Thil
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, LSCE/IPSL,
CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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Short summary
In this paper, we compare new and published Atlantic sedimentary Pa/Th data with Pa/Th simulated using stream functions generated under various climatic conditions. We show that during Greenland interstadials of the 20–50 ka period, the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation was very different from that of the Holocene. Moreover, southern-sourced waters dominated the Atlantic during Heinrich stadial 2, a slow northern-sourced water mass flowing above 2500 m in the North Atlantic.
In this paper, we compare new and published Atlantic sedimentary Pa/Th data with Pa/Th simulated...
