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Sea-ice variability in the subarctic North Pacific and adjacent Bering Sea during the past 25 ka: new insights from IP25 and Uk′37 proxy records
- Source :
- arktos. 4:1-19
- Publication Year :
- 2018
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2018.
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Abstract
- This study focusses on the last glacial–deglacial–Holocene spatial and temporal variability in sea-ice cover based on organic geochemical analyses of marine sediment cores from the subarctic Pacific and the Bering Sea. By means of the sea-ice proxy “IP25” and phytoplankton-derived biomarkers (specific sterols and alkenones), we reconstruct the spring sea-ice conditions, (summer) sea-surface temperature (SST) and primary productivity, respectively. The large variability of sea ice was explained by a combination of local and global factors, such as solar insolation, global climate anomalies and sea-level changes controlling the oceanographic circulation and water mass exchange between the subarctic Pacific and the Bering Sea. During the Last Glacial Maximum, extensive sea-ice cover prevailed over large part of the subarctic Pacific and the Bering Sea. The following deglaciation is characterized by a rapid sea-ice advance and retreat. During cold periods (Heinrich Stadial 1 and Younger Dryas) seasonal sea-ice cover generally coincided with low alkenone SSTs and low primary productivity. Conversely, during warmer intervals (Bolling/Allerod, Early Holocene) reduced sea-ice or ice-free conditions prevailed in the study area. At the northern Bering Sea continental shelf a late-Early/Mid Holocene shift to marginal sea-ice conditions is in line with the simultaneous wide-spread sea-ice recovery observed in the other Arctic marginal seas and is likely initiated by the lower Northern Hemisphere insolation and surface-water cooling.
- Subjects :
- 0301 basic medicine
Alkenone
geography
geography.geographical_feature_category
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences
Continental shelf
Energy Engineering and Power Technology
Last Glacial Maximum
01 natural sciences
Subarctic climate
03 medical and health sciences
030104 developmental biology
Fuel Technology
Oceanography
Sea ice
Deglaciation
Younger Dryas
Geology
Holocene
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
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Details
- ISSN :
- 23649461 and 23649453
- Volume :
- 4
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- arktos
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........d6f59945aad3baab073a0afab74fb307