Journal article
Australasian monsoon response to Dansgaard-Oeschger event 21 and teleconnections to higher latitudes
ML Griffiths, RN Drysdale, MK Gagan, JC Hellstrom, I Couchoud, LK Ayliffe, HB Vonhof, WS Hantoro
Earth and Planetary Science Letters | ELSEVIER | Published : 2013
Abstract
Dansgaard-Oeschger (D-O) cycles were the most prominent, abrupt climate events of the last glacial period whose impact was most strongly felt in the high latitudes of the North Atlantic region. The climate links between the North Atlantic, the Asian and American tropics, and Antarctica during these cycles are well documented. However, the potential role of the Indo-Pacific Warm Pool and Australasian monsoon system in propagating climate impacts across the hemispheres is still unclear. Here, we use tandem measurements of oxygen isotopes in calcite and fluid inclusions, as well as carbon-isotope ratios, from multiple stalagmites from Liang Luar Cave, Flores (southern Indonesia) to examine the ..
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Funding Acknowledgements
We thank B. Suwargadi, N. Anderson, G. Smith, J. Rutledge, S. Lewis, E. St Pierre, E. Yulianto, and the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) for logistical support and technical assistance with fieldwork, which was carried out under LIPI Research Permit no. 2748/SU.3/KS/2007. This research was supported by a Postgraduate Research Award through the University of Newcastle and the NOAA/UCAR Climate and Global Change Postdoctoral Fellowship to M.L.G., and an Australian Research Council Discovery Project Grant DP0663274 to M.K.G., R.N.D., and W.S.H. We thank Manfred Mudelsee for providing the Ramp-fit software.