North Atlantic warming during Dansgaard-Oeschger events synchronous with Antarctic warming and out-of-phase with Greenland climate
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https://hdl.handle.net/10037/9170Date
2016-02-05Type
Journal articlePeer reviewed
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Abstract
The precise reason for the differences and out-of-phase relationship between the abrupt Dansgaard-
Oeschger warmings in the Nordic seas and Greenland ice cores and the gradual warmings in the southcentral
Atlantic and Antarctic ice cores is poorly understood. Termed the bipolar seesaw, the differences
are apparently linked to perturbations in the ocean circulation pattern. Here we show that surface
and intermediate-depth water south of Iceland warmed gradually synchronously with the Antarctic
warming and out of phase with the abrupt warming of the Nordic seas and over Greenland. The hinge
line between areas showing abrupt and gradual warming was close to the Greenland-Scotland Ridge
and the marine system appears to be a ‘push-and-pull’ system rather than a seesaw system. ‘Pull’ during
the warm interstadials, when convection in the Nordic seas was active; ‘push’ during the cold stadials,
when convection stopped and warm water from the south-central Atlantic pushed northward gradually
warming the North Atlantic and Nordic seas.
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DOI: 10.1038/srep20535