Consistently dated Atlantic sediment cores over the last 40 thousand years

Claire Waelbroeck, Bryan C. Lougheed, Natalia Vazquez Riveiros, Lise Missiaen, Joel Pedro, Trond Dokken, Irka Hajdas, Lukas Wacker, Peter Abbott, Jean Pascal Dumoulin, François Thil, Frédérique Eynaud, Linda Rossignol, Wiem Fersi, Ana Luiza Albuquerque, Helge Arz, William E.N. Austin, Rosemarie Came, Anders E. Carlson, James A. CollinsBernard Dennielou, Stéphanie Desprat, Alex Dickson, Mary Elliot, Christa Farmer, Jacques Giraudeau, Julia Gottschalk, Jorijntje Henderiks, Konrad Hughen, Simon Jung, Paul Knutz, Susana Lebreiro, David C. Lund, Jean Lynch-Stieglitz, Bruno Malaizé, Thomas Marchitto, Gema Martínez-Méndez, Gesine Mollenhauer, Filipa Naughton, Silvia Nave, Dirk Nürnberg, Delia Oppo, Victoria Peck, Frank J.C. Peeters, Aurélie Penaud, Rodrigo da Costa Portilho-Ramos, Janne Repschläger, Jenny Roberts, Carsten Rühlemann, Emilia Salgueiro, Maria Fernanda Sanchez Goni, Joachim Schönfeld, Paolo Scussolini, Luke C. Skinner, Charlotte Skonieczny, David Thornalley, Samuel Toucanne, David Van Rooij, Laurence Vidal, Antje H.L. Voelker, Mélanie Wary, Syee Weldeab, Martin Ziegler

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Abstract

Rapid changes in ocean circulation and climate have been observed in marine-sediment and ice cores over the last glacial period and deglaciation, highlighting the non-linear character of the climate system and underlining the possibility of rapid climate shifts in response to anthropogenic greenhouse gas forcing. To date, these rapid changes in climate and ocean circulation are still not fully explained. One obstacle hindering progress in our understanding of the interactions between past ocean circulation and climate changes is the difficulty of accurately dating marine cores. Here, we present a set of 92 marine sediment cores from the Atlantic Ocean for which we have established age-depth models that are consistent with the Greenland GICC05 ice core chronology, and computed the associated dating uncertainties, using a new deposition modeling technique. This is the first set of consistently dated marine sediment cores enabling paleoclimate scientists to evaluate leads/lags between circulation and climate changes over vast regions of the Atlantic Ocean. Moreover, this data set is of direct use in paleoclimate modeling studies.

Original languageEnglish
Article number165
Pages (from-to)1-12
Number of pages12
JournalScientific Data
Volume6
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2 Sept 2019

Funding

The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Research Council under the European Union’s Seventh Framework Program (FP7/2007-2013 Grant agreement n° 339108). New 14C dates for cores EW9209-1JPC and V29-202 were funded by NSF OCE grants to DWO. FN, ES and AV acknowledge FCT funding support through project UID/Multi/04326/2019. We thank T. Garlan and P. Guyomard for having given us access to cores from the Service Hydrographique et Océanographique de la Marine. We acknowledge N. Smialkowski for help with formatting the data into text files, and L. Mauclair, L. Leroy and G. Isguder for the picking of numerous foraminifer samples for radiocarbon dating. We are grateful to S. Obrochta, E. Cortijo, E. Michel, F. Bassinot, J.C. Duplessy, and L. Labeyrie for advice and fruitful discussions. This paper is LSCE contribution 6572.

FundersFunder number
National Science Foundation
H2020 European Research Council#x00B0
Seventh Framework Programme339108, EW9209-1JPC, 610055
FP7 Ideas: European Research Councilamp, ERC grant agreement number 610055, FP7/2007-2013 Grant agreement n&amp
FP7 People: Marie-Curie Actions
European Research Council
Fundação para a Ciência e a TecnologiaUID/Multi/04326/2019

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