%0 Journal article
%A Budsky, Alexander
%A Wassenburg, Jasper A.
%A Mertz-Kraus, Regina
%A Spötl, Christoph
%A Jochum, Klaus Peter
%A Gibert, Luis
%A Scholz, Denis
%T Western Mediterranean Climate Response to Dansgaard/Oeschger Events: New Insights From Speleothem Records
%R 10.1029/2019GL084009
%R 10.23689/fidgeo-4801
%J Geophysical Research Letters
%V 46
%N 15

%X The climate of the western Mediterranean was characterized by a strong precipitation gradient during the Holocene driven by atmospheric circulation patterns. The scarcity of terrestrial paleoclimate archives has precluded exploring this hydroclimate pattern during Marine Isotope Stages 5 to 3. Here we present stable carbon and oxygen isotope records from three flowstones from southeast Iberia, which show that Dansgaard/Oeschger events were associated with more humid conditions. This is in agreement with other records from the Iberian Peninsula, the Mediterranean, and western Europe, which all responded in a similar way to millennial-scale climate variability in Greenland. This general increase in precipitation during Dansgaard/Oeschger events cannot be explained by any present-day or Holocene winter atmospheric circulation pattern. Instead, we suggest that changes in sea surface temperature played a dominant role in determining precipitation amounts in the western Mediterranean.
%U http://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gldocs-11858/9147
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