1. The Ross Sea Dipole – temperature, snow accumulation and sea ice variability in the Ross Sea region, Antarctica, over the past 2700 years
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Bertler, Nancy AN, Conway, Howard, Dahl-Jensen, Dorthe, Emanuelsson, Daniel B, Winstrup, Mai, Vallelonga, Paul T, Lee, James E, Brook, Ed J, Severinghaus, Jeffrey P, Fudge, Taylor J, Keller, Elizabeth D, Baisden, W Troy, Hindmarsh, Richard CA, Neff, Peter D, Blunier, Thomas, Edwards, Ross, Mayewski, Paul A, Kipfstuhl, Sepp, Buizert, Christo, Canessa, Silvia, Dadic, Ruzica, Kjær, Helle A, Kurbatov, Andrei, Zhang, Dongqi, Waddington, Edwin D, Baccolo, Giovanni, Beers, Thomas, Brightley, Hannah J, Carter, Lionel, Clemens-Sewall, David, Ciobanu, Viorela G, Delmonte, Barbara, Eling, Lukas, Ellis, Aja, Ganesh, Shruthi, Golledge, Nicholas R, Haines, Skylar, Handley, Michael, Hawley, Robert L, Hogan, Chad M, Johnson, Katelyn M, Korotkikh, Elena, Lowry, Daniel P, Mandeno, Darcy, McKay, Robert M, Menking, James A, Naish, Timothy R, Noerling, Caroline, Ollive, Agathe, Orsi, Anaïs, Proemse, Bernadette C, Pyne, Alexander R, Pyne, Rebecca L, Renwick, James, Scherer, Reed P, Semper, Stefanie, Simonsen, Marius, Sneed, Sharon B, Steig, Eric J, Tuohy, Andrea, Venugopal, Abhijith Ulayottil, Valero-Delgado, Fernando, Venkatesh, Janani, Wang, Feitang, Wang, Shimeng, Winski, Dominic A, Winton, V Holly L, Whiteford, Arran, Xiao, Cunde, Yang, Jiao, and Zhang, Xin
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Earth Sciences ,Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience ,Geology ,Climate Action ,Paleontology ,Climate change science - Abstract
Abstract. High-resolution, well-dated climate archives provide anopportunity to investigate the dynamic interactions of climate patternsrelevant for future projections. Here, we present data from a new, annuallydated ice core record from the eastern Ross Sea, named the Roosevelt IslandClimate Evolution (RICE) ice core. Comparison of this record with climatereanalysis data for the 1979–2012 interval shows that RICE reliably capturestemperature and snow precipitation variability in the region. Trends over thepast 2700 years in RICE are shown to be distinct from those in WestAntarctica and the western Ross Sea captured by other ice cores. For most ofthis interval, the eastern Ross Sea was warming (or showing isotopicenrichment for other reasons), with increased snow accumulation and perhapsdecreased sea ice concentration. However, West Antarctica cooled and thewestern Ross Sea showed no significant isotope temperature trend. Thispattern here is referred to as the Ross Sea Dipole. Notably, during theLittle Ice Age, West Antarctica and the western Ross Sea experienced colderthan average temperatures, while the eastern Ross Sea underwent a period ofwarming or increased isotopic enrichment. From the 17th century onwards, thisdipole relationship changed. All three regions show current warming, withsnow accumulation declining in West Antarctica and the eastern Ross Sea butincreasing in the western Ross Sea. We interpret this pattern as reflectingan increase in sea ice in the eastern Ross Sea with perhaps the establishmentof a modern Roosevelt Island polynya as a local moisture source for RICE.
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- 2018