TY  - JOUR
A1  - Tangunan, Deborah
A1  - Berke, Melissa A.
A1  - Cartagena-Sierra, Alejandra
A1  - Flores, José Abel
A1  - Gruetzner, Jens
A1  - Jiménez-Espejo, Francisco
A1  - LeVay, Leah J.
A1  - Baumann, Karl-Heinz
A1  - Romero, Oscar
A1  - Saavedra-Pellitero, Mariem
A1  - Coenen, Jason J.
A1  - Starr, Aidan
A1  - Hemming, Sidney R.
A1  - Hall, Ian R.
T1  - Strong glacial-interglacial variability in upper ocean hydrodynamics, biogeochemistry, and productivity in the southern Indian Ocean
Y1  - 2021-05-05
VL  - 2
IS  - 1
JF  - Communications Earth & Environment
DO  - 10.1038/s43247-021-00148-0
PB  - Nature Publishing Group UK
N2  - In the southern Indian Ocean, the position of the subtropical front – the boundary between colder, fresher waters to the south and warmer, saltier waters to the north – has a strong influence on the upper ocean hydrodynamics and biogeochemistry. Here we analyse a sedimentary record from the Agulhas Plateau, located close to the modern position of the subtropical front and use alkenones and coccolith assemblages to reconstruct oceanographic conditions over the past 300,000 years. We identify a strong glacial-interglacial variability in sea surface temperature and productivity associated with subtropical front migration over the Agulhas Plateau, as well as shorter-term high frequency variability aligned with variations in high latitude insolation. Alkenone and coccolith abundances, in combination with diatom and organic carbon records indicate high glacial export productivity. We conclude that the biological pump was more efficient and strengthened during glacial periods, which could partly account for the reported reduction in atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations.
N2  - Migration of the Subtropical Front during glacial and interglacial periods resulted in variability in the strength of the biological pump in the Southern Ocean sector of the Indian Ocean, according to sedimentary records from the Agulhas Plateau.
UR  - http://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gldocs-11858/11058
ER  -