A 334-year coral record of surface temperature and salinity variability in the greater Agulhas Current region

Zinke, Jens; Watanabe, Takaaki K.; Rühs, Siren; Pfeiffer, Miriam; Grab, Stefan; Garbe-Schönberg, Dieter; Biastoch, Arne

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-18-1453-2022

Articles | Volume 18, issue 6

https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-18-1453-2022

© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-18-1453-2022

© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 18, issue 6

Research article

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27 Jun 2022

Research article |

| 27 Jun 2022

A 334-year coral record of surface temperature and salinity variability in the greater Agulhas Current region

Jens Zinke, Takaaki K. Watanabe, Siren Rühs, Miriam Pfeiffer, Stefan Grab, Dieter Garbe-Schönberg, and Arne Biastoch

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-18-1453-2022-supplement

Data sets

Paleo Data NOAA NCEI https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/paleoclimatology

Short summary

Salinity is an important and integrative measure of changes to the water cycle steered by changes to the balance between rainfall and evaporation and by vertical and horizontal movements of water parcels by ocean currents. However, salinity measurements in our oceans are extremely sparse. To fill this gap, we have developed a 334-year coral record of seawater oxygen isotopes that reflects salinity changes in the globally important Agulhas Current system and reveals its main oceanic drivers.