A 0.6-Million Year Record of Millennial-Scale Climate Variability in the Tropics†
Kelly Ann Gibson2,*, Larry C. Peterson1DOI: 10.1002/2013GL058846©2014. American Geophysical Union
Abstract
[1] A ~600-kyr long scanning X-ray fluorescence (XRF) record of redox variability from the Cariaco Basin, Venezuela, provides insight into rapid climate change in the tropics over the past five glacial-interglacial cycles. Variations in the sediment accumulation of the redox-sensitive element molybdenum (Mo) can be linked to changes in Intertropical Convergence Zone migration and reveal that millennial-scale variability is a persistent feature of tropical climate over the past 600 kyr, including during periods of interglacial warmth.
This new record supports the idea that high-frequency tropical climate variability is not controlled solely by ice volume changes, with implications for the role of high-latitude forcing of ITCZ position and tropical hydrology on millennial timescales
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Tallbloke on the animation you can see exactly how a shift polar vortex causes the inflow of warm air over the Arctic Circle. It has nothing in common with “global warming.” A height of 30 km. The temperature depends only on the amount of ozone.
http://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/isobaric/10hPa/orthographic=-339.64,116.24,302
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Paywalled, unfortunately. Presumably it is an organic (biological activity) based proxy. I wonder if the Carioco basin varies its redox status a lot with global rising/falling sea levels, as the wiki article says the channels connecting it to the open Caribbean are quite shallow.
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