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Wang Y, Costa KM, Lu W, Hines SKV, Nielsen SG. Global oceanic oxygenation controlled by the Southern Ocean through the last deglaciation. SCIENCE ADVANCES 2024; 10:eadk2506. [PMID: 38241365 PMCID: PMC10798564 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adk2506] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/10/2023] [Accepted: 12/19/2023] [Indexed: 01/21/2024]
Abstract
Ocean dissolved oxygen (DO) can provide insights on how the marine carbon cycle affects global climate change. However, the net global DO change and the controlling mechanisms remain uncertain through the last deglaciation. Here, we present a globally integrated DO reconstruction using thallium isotopes, corroborating lower global DO during the Last Glacial Maximum [19 to 23 thousand years before the present (ka B.P.)] relative to the Holocene. During the deglaciation, we reveal reoxygenation in the Heinrich Stadial 1 (~14.7 to 18 ka B.P.) and the Younger Dryas (11.7 to 12.9 ka B.P.), with deoxygenation during the Bølling-Allerød (12.9 to 14.7 ka B.P.). The deglacial DO changes were decoupled from North Atlantic Deep Water formation rates and imply that Southern Ocean ventilation controlled ocean oxygen. The coherence between global DO and atmospheric CO2 on millennial timescales highlights the Southern Ocean's role in deglacial atmospheric CO2 rise.
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- Yi Wang
- Department of Geology and Geophysics, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA
- NIRVANA Laboratories, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA
- Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA 70118, USA
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- Department of Geology and Geophysics, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA
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- Department of Geology and Geophysics, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA
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- Department of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA
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- Department of Geology and Geophysics, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA
- NIRVANA Laboratories, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA
- Centre de Recherches Pétrographiques et Géochimiques, CNRS, Université de Lorraine, 15 rue Notre Dame des Pauvres, 54501 Vandoeuvre lès Nancy, France
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Stewart JA, Robinson LF, Rae JWB, Burke A, Chen T, Li T, de Carvalho Ferreira ML, Fornari DJ. Arctic and Antarctic forcing of ocean interior warming during the last deglaciation. Sci Rep 2023; 13:22410. [PMID: 38104174 PMCID: PMC10725493 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-49435-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/15/2023] [Accepted: 12/07/2023] [Indexed: 12/19/2023] Open
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Subsurface water masses formed at high latitudes impact the latitudinal distribution of heat in the ocean. Yet uncertainty surrounding the timing of low-latitude warming during the last deglaciation (18-10 ka) means that controls on sub-surface temperature rise remain unclear. Here we present seawater temperature records on a precise common age-scale from East Equatorial Pacific (EEP), Equatorial Atlantic, and Southern Ocean intermediate waters using new Li/Mg records from cold water corals. We find coeval warming in the tropical EEP and Atlantic during Heinrich Stadial 1 (+ 6 °C) that closely resemble warming recorded in Antarctic ice cores, with more modest warming of the Southern Ocean (+ 3 °C). The magnitude and depth of low-latitude ocean warming implies that downward accumulation of heat following Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) slowdown played a key role in heating the ocean interior, with heat advection from southern-sourced intermediate waters playing an additional role.
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- Joseph A Stewart
- School of Earth Sciences University of Bristol, Queens Road, Bristol, BS8 1RJ, UK.
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- School of Earth Sciences University of Bristol, Queens Road, Bristol, BS8 1RJ, UK
- Department of Environment and Geography, University of York, York, UK
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- School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, KY16 9TS, UK
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- School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, KY16 9TS, UK
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- School of Earth Sciences University of Bristol, Queens Road, Bristol, BS8 1RJ, UK
- School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210023, China
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- School of Earth Sciences University of Bristol, Queens Road, Bristol, BS8 1RJ, UK
- Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Petroleum Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China
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Yang Y, Zhang L, Yi L, Zhong F, Lu Z, Wan S, Du Y, Xiang R. A contracting Intertropical Convergence Zone during the Early Heinrich Stadial 1. Nat Commun 2023; 14:4695. [PMID: 37542043 PMCID: PMC10403598 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-40377-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/04/2022] [Accepted: 07/14/2023] [Indexed: 08/06/2023] Open
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Despite the fact that the response of tropical hydroclimate to North Atlantic cooling events during the Heinrich Stadial 1 (HS1) has been extensively studied in African, South American and Indonesia, the nature of such responses remains debated. Here we investigate the tropical hydroclimate pattern over the Indo-Asian-Australian monsoon region during the HS1 by integrating hydroclimatic records, and examining a δ18Oseawater record from Globigerinoides ruber (white) in the tropical Indian Ocean. Our findings indicate that tropical hydrological conditions were synchronously arid in both hemispheres during the early HS1 (~18.3-16.3 ka) in the Indo-Asian-Australian monsoon region, except for a narrow, wet hydrological belt in northern low latitudes, suggesting the existence of a contracted tropical precipitation belt at that time. This study reveals that the meltwater discharge and resulting changes in global temperatures and El Niño exerted a profound influence on the tropical hydroclimate in the Indo-Asian-Australian monsoon region during the early HS1.
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- Yiping Yang
- Key Laboratory of Ocean and Marginal Sea Geology, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, 510301, China
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- Key Laboratory of Ocean and Marginal Sea Geology, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, 510301, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Marine Geology, Tongji University, Shanghai, 200092, China
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- Key Laboratory of Ocean and Marginal Sea Geology, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, 510301, China
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- Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, Lund University, 22362, Lund, Sweden
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- Key Laboratory of Ocean and Marginal Sea Geology, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, 510301, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Tropical Oceanography, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, 510301, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100049, Beijing, China
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- Key Laboratory of Ocean and Marginal Sea Geology, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, 510301, China.
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Pöppelmeier F, Jeltsch-Thömmes A, Lippold J, Joos F, Stocker TF. Multi-proxy constraints on Atlantic circulation dynamics since the last ice age. NATURE GEOSCIENCE 2023; 16:349-356. [PMID: 37064010 PMCID: PMC10089918 DOI: 10.1038/s41561-023-01140-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/15/2022] [Accepted: 01/27/2023] [Indexed: 06/19/2023]
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Uncertainties persist in the understanding of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation and its response to external perturbations such as freshwater or radiative forcing. Abrupt reduction of the Atlantic circulation is considered a climate tipping point that may have been crossed when Earth's climate was propelled out of the last ice age. However, the evolution of the circulation since the Last Glacial Maximum (22-18 thousand years ago) remains insufficiently constrained due to model and proxy limitations. Here we leverage information from both a compilation of proxy records that track various aspects of the circulation and climate model simulations to constrain the Atlantic circulation over the past 20,000 years. We find a coherent picture of a shallow and weak Atlantic overturning circulation during the Last Glacial Maximum that reconciles apparently conflicting proxy evidence. Model-data comparison of the last deglaciation-starting from this new, multiple constrained glacial state-indicates a muted response during Heinrich Stadial 1 and that water mass geometry did not fully adjust to the strong reduction in overturning circulation during the comparably short Younger Dryas period. This demonstrates that the relationship between freshwater forcing and Atlantic overturning strength is strongly dependent on the climatic and oceanic background state.
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- Frerk Pöppelmeier
- Climate and Environmental Physics, Physics Institute, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
- Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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- Climate and Environmental Physics, Physics Institute, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
- Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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- Institute of Earth Sciences, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Climate and Environmental Physics, Physics Institute, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
- Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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- Climate and Environmental Physics, Physics Institute, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
- Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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Du J, Mix AC, Haley BA, Belanger CL, Sharon. Volcanic trigger of ocean deoxygenation during Cordilleran ice sheet retreat. Nature 2022; 611:74-80. [DOI: 10.1038/s41586-022-05267-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/12/2022] [Accepted: 08/23/2022] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Zheng J, Chen T, Ng HC, Robinson LF, Zheng XY, Shi X, Huang M. Determination of Picogram-per-Gram Concentrations of 231Pa and 230Th in Sediments by Melt Quenching and Laser Ablation Mass Spectrometry. Anal Chem 2022; 94:7576-7583. [PMID: 35576450 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.2c00438] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Uranium, thorium, and protactinium radionuclides in marine sediments are important proxies for understanding the earth's environmental evolution. Conventional solution-based methods, which typically involve isotope spike preparation, concentrated acid sample digestion, column chemistry, and mass spectrometry, allow precise but time-consuming and costly measurements of these nuclide concentrations (i.e., 230Th and 231Pa). In this work, we have established an efficient method for 230Th and 231Pa measurement of marine sediments down to the picogram-per-gram level without purification and enrichment. Our method first transforms a small amount of thermally decomposed sediments (∼0.1-0.2 g) to homogeneous silicate glass using a melt quenching technique and then analyzes the glass with laser ablation multicollector inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry. Standard sample bracketing with isotope-spike-calibrated glass standards prepared in this study was used to correct for instrumental fractionation during measurement. It is demonstrated that our method can accurately determine the U-Th-Pa concentrations of typical marine sediments in the late Pleistocene with precision of a few percent. Compared with the conventional solution-based methods, the turnover time of sample preparation and measurement with our established protocol is greatly reduced, facilitating future application of U-series radionuclides in reconstructing oceanic processes at high temporal and spatial resolution.
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- Jianfan Zheng
- State Key Laboratory for Mineral Deposits Research, School of Earth Sciences and Engineering and Frontiers Science Center for Critical Earth Material Cycling, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210046, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Mineral Deposits Research, School of Earth Sciences and Engineering and Frontiers Science Center for Critical Earth Material Cycling, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210046, China.,Laboratory for Marine Geology, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao 266071, China
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- School of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1RJ, U.K
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- School of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1RJ, U.K
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- Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Minnesota─Twin Cities, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, United States
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- Laboratory for Marine Geology, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao 266071, China.,Key Laboratory of Marine Geology and Metallogeny, First Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR), Qingdao 266061, China
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- Laboratory for Marine Geology, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao 266071, China.,Key Laboratory of Marine Geology and Metallogeny, First Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR), Qingdao 266061, China
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Elevated dust depositions in West Asia linked to ocean-atmosphere shifts during North Atlantic cold events. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2020; 117:18272-18277. [PMID: 32690680 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2004071117] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Rapid North Atlantic cooling events during the last deglaciation caused atmospheric reorganizations on global and regional scales. Their impact on Asian climate has been investigated for monsoonal domains, but remains largely unknown in westerly wind-dominated semiarid regions. Here we generate a dust record from southeastern Iran spanning the period 19 to 7 cal. ka B.P. We find a direct link between frequent occurrences of dust plumes originating from the Arabian Peninsula and North Africa and rapid southward shifts of the westerlies associated with changes of the winter stationary waves during Heinrich Stadial 1, the Younger Dryas, the Preboreal Oscillation, and the 8.2-ka event. Dust input rises and falls abruptly at the transitions into and out of these cooling events, which we attribute to changes in the ocean circulation strength that are modulated by the North Atlantic winter sea-ice cover. Our findings reveal that waxing and waning of North American ice sheets have a stronger influence than those of European ice sheets on the winter climate over West Asia.
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Praetorius SK, Condron A, Mix AC, Walczak MH, McKay JL, Du J. The role of Northeast Pacific meltwater events in deglacial climate change. SCIENCE ADVANCES 2020; 6:eaay2915. [PMID: 32133399 PMCID: PMC7043920 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aay2915] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/05/2019] [Accepted: 11/22/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Columbia River megafloods occurred repeatedly during the last deglaciation, but the impacts of this fresh water on Pacific hydrography are largely unknown. To reconstruct changes in ocean circulation during this period, we used a numerical model to simulate the flow trajectory of Columbia River megafloods and compiled records of sea surface temperature, paleo-salinity, and deep-water radiocarbon from marine sediment cores in the Northeast Pacific. The North Pacific sea surface cooled and freshened during the early deglacial (19.0-16.5 ka) and Younger Dryas (12.9-11.7 ka) intervals, coincident with the appearance of subsurface water masses depleted in radiocarbon relative to the sea surface. We infer that Pacific meltwater fluxes contributed to net Northern Hemisphere cooling prior to North Atlantic Heinrich Events, and again during the Younger Dryas stadial. Abrupt warming in the Northeast Pacific similarly contributed to hemispheric warming during the Bølling and Holocene transitions. These findings underscore the importance of changes in North Pacific freshwater fluxes and circulation in deglacial climate events.
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- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, USA
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- College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA
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- College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA
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- College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA
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- College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA
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Muschitiello F, D'Andrea WJ, Schmittner A, Heaton TJ, Balascio NL, deRoberts N, Caffee MW, Woodruff TE, Welten KC, Skinner LC, Simon MH, Dokken TM. Deep-water circulation changes lead North Atlantic climate during deglaciation. Nat Commun 2019; 10:1272. [PMID: 30894523 PMCID: PMC6426850 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-09237-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2018] [Accepted: 02/26/2019] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Constraining the response time of the climate system to changes in North Atlantic Deep Water (NADW) formation is fundamental to improving climate and Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation predictability. Here we report a new synchronization of terrestrial, marine, and ice-core records, which allows the first quantitative determination of the response time of North Atlantic climate to changes in high-latitude NADW formation rate during the last deglaciation. Using a continuous record of deep water ventilation from the Nordic Seas, we identify a ∼400-year lead of changes in high-latitude NADW formation ahead of abrupt climate changes recorded in Greenland ice cores at the onset and end of the Younger Dryas stadial, which likely occurred in response to gradual changes in temperature- and wind-driven freshwater transport. We suggest that variations in Nordic Seas deep-water circulation are precursors to abrupt climate changes and that future model studies should address this phasing. The response time of North Atlantic climate to changes in high-latitude deep-water formation during the last deglaciation is still unclear. Here the authors show that gradual changes in Nordic Seas deep-water circulation systematically lead ahead of abrupt regional climate shifts by ~400 years.
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- Francesco Muschitiello
- Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 3EN, UK. .,Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, 10964, USA. .,NORCE Norwegian Research Centre and Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, 5007, Bergen, Norway.
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- Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, 10964, USA
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- College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, 97331-5503, USA
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- School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, S3 7RH, UK
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- Department of Geology, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA, 23187, USA
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- Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, 10964, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 47907, USA.,Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 47907, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 47907, USA
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- Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
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- Godwin Laboratory for Palaeoclimate Research, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 3EQ, UK
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- NORCE Norwegian Research Centre and Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, 5007, Bergen, Norway
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- NORCE Norwegian Research Centre and Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, 5007, Bergen, Norway
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