Erschienen:
American Geophysical Union (AGU), 2021
Erschienen in:
Geophysical Research Letters, 48 (2021) 8
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.1029/2020gl090994
ISSN:
0094-8276;
1944-8007
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AbstractInterglacial periods (IG) offer an opportunity to understand natural climate variability and its drivers under potential warmer‐than‐present conditions. However, sea‐surface temperature (SST) records from the Southern Ocean (SO) are limited. The first SST record from the Sub‐Antarctic western Indian SO covering the last four IGs suggest warmer conditions during Marine Isotope Stage 5e than 9e, 7e, and Holocene. Each IG presents two (early and late) warm phases interrupted by a cooling, except Holocene that experienced a continuous warming. The early warm phase might be attributable to changes in northern summer insolation with feedbacks from Northern and Southern Hemisphere ice‐sheets, global oceanic circulation, and the carbon cycle. Conversely, the late warm phase might be due to changes in Southern Hemisphere summer insolation. Larger millennial‐scale SST variability for IGs older than Holocene could be attributed to a less stable thermohaline circulation, which resulted in more variable heat redistribution between the two hemispheres.