Late Pleistocene island weathering and precipitation in the Western Pacific Warm Pool

Autor: Zhaojie Yu, Jiaoyang Ruan, Lina Song, Kyung-Sook Yun, Xiaojie Tang, Christophe Colin, David J. Wilson, Haowen Dang, Pedro N. DiNezio, Fengming Chang, Xiaolei Pang, Franck Bassinot, Shiming Wan
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2024
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Zdroj: npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, Vol 7, Iss 1, Pp 1-11 (2024)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2397-3722
DOI: 10.1038/s41612-024-00642-0
Popis: Abstract Deciphering past climate variability in the Western Pacific Warm Pool (WPWP), the Earth’s largest heat and moisture centre, is vital for understanding the global climate system. Nevertheless, its long-term evolution remains controversial, largely due to ambiguities in existing proxy interpretations and discrepancies between records. Here, we present a weathering and erosion reconstruction from the WPWP spanning the last 140,000 years, based on the mineralogy and geochemistry of a sediment core from offshore of northern New Guinea. The paleo-weathering reconstruction is consistent with the simulated precipitation evolution on nearby islands, thereby suggesting a close coupling between climate variability and island weathering in a tropical setting. In addition, our combined data-model interpretation of WPWP climate history shows many similarities to the East Asian Summer Monsoon (EASM) variability over orbital timescales. Overall, our study highlights the critical role of precession-paced interhemispheric energy redistribution, via the West Pacific meridional sea-surface pressure gradient, in linking orbital-scale WPWP climate and EASM variability.
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