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  • Titel: A contracting Intertropical Convergence Zone during the Early Heinrich Stadial 1
  • Beteiligte: Yang, Yiping; Zhang, Lanlan; Yi, Liang; Zhong, Fuchang; Lu, Zhengyao; Wan, Sui; Du, Yan; Xiang, Rong
  • Erschienen: Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2023
  • Erschienen in: Nature Communications, 14 (2023) 1
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-40377-9
  • ISSN: 2041-1723
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  • Beschreibung: AbstractDespite 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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