climate change
; cooling
; data acquisition
; evaporation
; Holocene
; Little Ice Age
; Medieval Warm Period
; North Atlantic Oscillation
; planktonic foraminifera
; precipitation assessment
; proxy climate record
; reconstruction
; sea surface temperature
; seasonality
; temperature profile
; Atlantic Ocean
; Atlantic Ocean (North)
; Balearic Islands
; Mediterranean Sea
; Minorca
; Spain
; Globigerina bulloides
英文摘要:
This study presents the reconstructed evolution of sea surface conditions in the central-western Mediterranean Sea during the late Holocene (2700 years) from a set of multi-proxy records as measured on five short sediment cores from two sites north of Minorca (cores MINMC06 and HER-MC-MR3). Sea surface temperatures (SSTs) from alkenones and Globigerina bulloides Mgĝ€/ĝ€Ca ratios are combined with Î 18O measurements in order to reconstruct changes in the regional evaporation-precipitation (E-P) balance. We also revisit the G. bulloides Mgĝ€/ĝ€Ca-SST calibration and re-adjusted it based on a set of core-top measurements from the western Mediterranean Sea. Modern regional oceanographic data indicate that Globigerina bulloides Mgĝ€/ĝ€Ca is mainly controlled by seasonal spring SST conditions, related to the April-May primary productivity bloom in the region. In contrast, the alkenone-SST signal represents an integration of the annual signal.
Cisneros M.,Cacho I.,Frigola J.,et al. Sea surface temperature variability in the central-western Mediterranean Sea during the last 2700 years: A multi-proxy and multi-record approach[J]. Climate of the Past,2016-01-01,12(4)