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Technical note
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29 Mar 2021
Technical note |
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Technical note: Considerations on using uncertain proxies in the analogue method for spatiotemporal reconstructions of millennial-scale climate
Institute of Coastal Systems – Analysis and Modeling, Helmholtz Zentrum Geesthacht, 21502 Geesthacht, Germany
Eduardo Zorita
Institute of Coastal Systems – Analysis and Modeling, Helmholtz Zentrum Geesthacht, 21502 Geesthacht, Germany
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D. Zanchettin, O. Bothe, F. Lehner, P. Ortega, C. C. Raible, and D. Swingedouw
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Subject: Proxy Use-Development-Validation | Archive: Marine Archives | Timescale: Millenial/D-O
On the tuning of plateaus in atmospheric and oceanic 14C records to derive calendar chronologies of deep-sea cores and records of 14C marine reservoir age changes
Dynamics of primary productivity in the northeastern Bay of Bengal over the last 26 000 years
Boron isotope fractionation during brucite deposition from artificial seawater
Edouard Bard and Timothy J. Heaton
Clim. Past, 17, 1701–1725, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-17-1701-2021, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-17-1701-2021, 2021
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We assess the 14C plateau tuning technique used to date marine sediments and determine 14C marine reservoir ages. We identify problems linked to assumptions of the technique, the assumed shapes of the 14C / 12C records, and the sparsity and uncertainties in both atmospheric and marine data. Our concerns are supported with carbon cycle box model experiments and statistical simulations, allowing us to question the ability to tune 14C age plateaus in the context of noisy and sparse data.
Xinquan Zhou, Stéphanie Duchamp-Alphonse, Masa Kageyama, Franck Bassinot, Luc Beaufort, and Christophe Colin
Clim. Past, 16, 1969–1986, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-16-1969-2020, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-16-1969-2020, 2020
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We provide a high-resolution primary productivity (PP) record of the northeastern Bay of Bengal over the last 26 000 years. Combined with climate model outputs, we show that PP over the glacial period is controlled by river input nutrients under low sea level conditions and after the Last Glacial Maximum is controlled by upper seawater salinity stratification related to monsoon precipitation. During the deglaciation the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation is the main forcing factor.
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Clim. Past, 7, 693–706, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-7-693-2011, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-7-693-2011, 2011
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Short summary
The similarity between indirect observations of past climates and information from climate simulations can increase our understanding of past climates. The further we look back, the more uncertain our indirect observations become. Here, we discuss the technical background for such a similarity-based approach to reconstruct past climates for up to the last 15 000 years. We highlight the potential and the problems.
The similarity between indirect observations of past climates and information from climate...
