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Reduced El Niño–Southern Oscillation during the Last Glacial Maximum
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Ford, H. L. Ravelo, Ana Christina Polissar, Pratigya J. |
| Copyright Year | 2015 |
| Abstract | El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is a major source of global interannual variability, but its response to climate change is uncertain. Paleoclimate records from the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) provide insight into ENSO behavior when global boundary conditions (ice sheet extent, atmospheric partial pressure of CO2) were different from those today. In this work, we reconstruct LGM temperature variability at equatorial Pacific sites using measurements of individual planktonic foraminifera shells. A deep equatorial thermocline altered the dynamics in the eastern equatorial cold tongue, resulting in reduced ENSO variability during the LGM compared to the Late Holocene. These results suggest that ENSO was not tied directly to the east-west temperature gradient, as previously suggested. Rather, the thermocline of the eastern equatorial Pacific played a decisive role in the ENSO response to LGM climate. |
| Starting Page | 255 |
| Ending Page | 258 |
| Page Count | 4 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.1126/science.1258437 |
| PubMed reference number | 25593181 |
| Journal | Medline |
| Volume Number | 347 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://people.ucsc.edu/~ppolissa/ford-et-al-2015-supplement.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1258437 |
| Journal | Science |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
