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Communication Dans Un Congrès Année : 2023

Iberian Margin Paleotemperatures and the Bipolar Seesaw

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The last glacial cycle provides the opportunity to investigate large changes in the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) beyond the small fluctuations evidenced from modern measurements. Paleotemperature records from Greenland and the North Atlantic show an abrupt variability, called Dansgaard–Oeschger (DO) events, which is associated with abrupt changes of the AMOC. These DO events also have Southern Hemisphere counterparts via the thermal bipolar seesaw, a concept describing the meridional heat transport leading to asynchronous temperature changes between both hemispheres. However, temperature records from the North Atlantic show more pronounced DO cooling events during massive releases of icebergs known as Heinrich (H) events, contrary to ice-core–based temperature records from Greenland. Here, we present two high-resolution temperature records from the southern Iberian Margin, which are derived from two independent paleotemperature proxies (RI-OH′ and UK′37). Both temperature records from the southern Iberian Margin faithfully reflect the contrasting DO cooling amplitudes with and without H events. We show that temperature records from the southern Iberian Margin better support the classical thermal bipolar seesaw model than do ice-core–based temperature records from Greenland. We also introduce an extended thermal bipolar seesaw model that considers the contrasting DO cooling amplitudes with and without H events in the southern Iberian Margin, and a Bipolar Seesaw Index to discriminate DO cooling events with and without H events. Our data-model comparison emphasizes the role of the thermal bipolar seesaw in the abrupt temperature variability of both hemispheres with a clear enhancement during DO cooling events with H events, implying a relationship that is more complex than a simple flip-flop between two climate states linked to a tipping point threshold.
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hal-04370031 , version 1 (02-01-2024)

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Nina Davtian, Edouard Bard. Iberian Margin Paleotemperatures and the Bipolar Seesaw. AGU23, Dec 2023, San Francisco (CA), United States. pp.PP41A-03. ⟨hal-04370031⟩
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