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| Linking Atmospheric and Ocean Circulation Variability to Abrupt Climate Change Over the Last 40 Kyr | |
| 项目编号 | 0823498 |
| Matthew Schmidt | |
| 项目主持机构 | Texas A&M Research Foundation |
| 开始日期 | 2008-09-15 |
| 结束日期 | 2014-08-31 |
| 英文摘要 | Intellectual Merit: This research seeks to identify the cause of the largest climate events of the last glacial cycle by using the geochemistry of the calcarious tests of planktonic and benthic foraminifera to reconstruct the timing of tropical/subtropical atmospheric circulation change in relation to variability in North Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation AMOC. The work is motivated by recent findings that North Atlantic Ocean salinity changes during the last glacial cycle show that abrupt climate change events are associated with significant changes in the low-latitude hydrologic cycle, suggesting that tropical atmospheric circulation plays an important role in climate change. Research will involve documenting past sea surface temperature and salinity as well as large-scale ocean circulation changes by using unique temperature and salinity proxies in foraminifera tests from sediment cores from the Florida Straits. Proxies include Mg/Ca-paleothermometry, oxygen isotope analyses, and Ba/Ca ratios in planktonic (floating) foraminifera tests. Companion data from benthic (seafloor dwelling) foraminiferal records from the same cores will identify the timing of Florida Current transport changes across major climate transitions. Because the relative timing between signals will be established in a single core, research goals will be to identify the influence on the subtropical/tropical Atlantic hydrologic cycle on the hydrologic cycle and to examine of abrupt climate events during the last glacial period were driven by atmospheric circulation change that then impacted AMOC. Broader Impacts: The recent rise in greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and their potential to strengthen the hydrologic cycle gives urgent need to better understanding the role of freshwater fluxes in ocean-atmosphere interactions. This research will help us understand past changes in the tropical hydrologic cycle during abrupt climate events. Furthermore, the companion high-resolution records of intermediate-water density changes have the potential to determine the rate and timing of large-scale ocean circulation change across the largest climate transitions of the last 40,000 years and can be used in climate modeles to predict how recent changes in the hydrologic cycle will alter global climate in the near future. Data will be archived at the World Data Center for Paleoclimatology at NOAA in Boulder, Colorado. Results will be incorporated into graduate classes at Texas A&M. The work will support a graduate student and include the training of undergraduates. Efforts will be made to recruit undergraduates from groups under-represented in the science through Texas A&M?s Department of Multicultural Services. |
| 学科分类 | 08 - 地球科学;0806 - 海洋科学 |
| 资助机构 | US-NSF |
| 项目经费 | 317103 |
| 项目类型 | Standard Grant |
| 国家 | US |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 文献类型 | 项目 |
| 条目标识符 | http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/72358 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Matthew Schmidt.Linking Atmospheric and Ocean Circulation Variability to Abrupt Climate Change Over the Last 40 Kyr.2008. |
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