Sea-surface temperature reconstruction of the South China Sea

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The tropical ocean plays a major role in global climate. It is therefore crucial to establish the precise phase between tropical and high-latitude climate variability during past abrupt climate events in order to gain insight into the mechanisms of global climate change. Here we present alkenone sea surface temperature (SST) records from the tropical South China Sea that show an abrupt temperature increase of at least 1°C at the end of the last glacial period. Within the recognized dating uncertainties, this SST increase is synchronous with the Bølling warming observed at 14.6 thousand years ago in the Greenland Ice Sheet Project 2 ice core.

Supplement to: Kienast, Markus; Steinke, Stephan; Stattegger, Karl; Calvert, Stephen E (2001): Synchronous tropical South China Sea SST change and Greenland warming during deglaciation. Science, 291(5511), 2132-2134

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.738464
Related Identifier IsSupplementTo https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1057131
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.738464
Provenance
Creator Kienast, Markus; Steinke, Stephan; Stattegger, Karl; Calvert, Stephen E
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2001
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
OpenAccess true
Representation
Resource Type Supplementary Publication Series of Datasets; Collection
Format application/zip
Size 2 datasets
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (109.391W, 5.663S, 110.661E, 9.250N); Vietnam shelf; Sunda Shelf
Temporal Coverage Begin 1996-12-17T00:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 1996-12-30T00:00:00Z