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https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-15-927-2019
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Holocene hydrography evolution in the Alboran Sea: a multi-record and multi-proxy comparison
Albert Català
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Grup de Recerca Consolidat en Geociències Marines, Departament
de Dinàmica de la Terra i de l'Oceà, Universitat de Barcelona (UB),
Barcelona, Spain
Isabel Cacho
Grup de Recerca Consolidat en Geociències Marines, Departament
de Dinàmica de la Terra i de l'Oceà, Universitat de Barcelona (UB),
Barcelona, Spain
Jaime Frigola
Grup de Recerca Consolidat en Geociències Marines, Departament
de Dinàmica de la Terra i de l'Oceà, Universitat de Barcelona (UB),
Barcelona, Spain
Leopoldo D. Pena
Grup de Recerca Consolidat en Geociències Marines, Departament
de Dinàmica de la Terra i de l'Oceà, Universitat de Barcelona (UB),
Barcelona, Spain
Fabrizio Lirer
Istituto di Scienze Marine
(ISMAR)-CNR, Sede di Napoli, Naples, Italy
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Short summary
We present a new high-resolution sea surface temperature (SST) reconstruction for the Holocene (last 11 700 years) in the westernmost Mediterranean Sea. We identify three sub-periods: the Early Holocene with warmest SST; the Middle Holocene with a cooling trend ending at 4200 years, which is identified as a double peak cooling event that marks the transition between the Middle and Late Holocene; and the Late Holocene with very different behaviour in both long- and short-term SST variability.
We present a new high-resolution sea surface temperature (SST) reconstruction for the Holocene...