Measured and smoothed sortable silt record of sediment core GS06-144-09MC-D

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Changes in the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) have commonly been invoked to explain the low‐frequency climate changes evident over millennial‐multidecadal timescales during the Holocene period. While there is growing evidence that deep ocean circulation varied on millennial timescales, little is known about ocean variability on shorter timescales. Here we use a marine sediment core (GS06‐144‐09MC‐D) recovered from a high accumulation rate site on the Gardar Drift in the Iceland Basin (60°19′N, 23°58′W, 2081 m) to reconstruct decadal‐centennial variability in the vigor of Iceland‐Scotland Overflow Water (ISOW) with the paleocurrent proxy "sortable silt" mean grain size (ss). Our (ss) record reveals that changes in ISOW vigor have occurred on multidecadal‐centennial timescales over the past ~600 years; similar timescales as documented in Atlantic Multidecadal Variability observations and reconstructions. Our findings support a link between changes in basin‐wide climate and deep ocean circulation.

Supplement to: Mjell, Tor Lien; Ninnemann, Ulysses S; Kleiven, Helga F; Hall, Ian R (2016): Multidecadal changes in Iceland Scotland Overflow Water vigor over the last 600 years and its relationship to climate. Geophysical Research Letters, 43(5), 2111-2117

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DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.899459
Related Identifier IsSupplementTo https://doi.org/10.1002/2016GL068227
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.899459
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Creator Mjell, Tor Lien; Ninnemann, Ulysses S; Kleiven, Helga F ORCID logo; Hall, Ian R ORCID logo
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2019
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
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Resource Type Supplementary Dataset; Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values
Size 264 data points
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (-23.967 LON, 60.317 LAT)