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Research article
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15 Mar 2017
Research article |
| 15 Mar 2017
Tropical forcing of increased Southern Ocean climate variability revealed by a 140-year subantarctic temperature reconstruction
Climate Change Research Centre, School of Biological, Earth and
Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Palaeontology, Geobiology and Earth Archives Research Centre, School
of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South
Wales, New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Christopher J. Fogwill
Climate Change Research Centre, School of Biological, Earth and
Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Palaeontology, Geobiology and Earth Archives Research Centre, School
of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South
Wales, New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Jonathan G. Palmer
Climate Change Research Centre, School of Biological, Earth and
Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Palaeontology, Geobiology and Earth Archives Research Centre, School
of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South
Wales, New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Erik van Sebille
ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science, University of New
South Wales, New South Wales, Australia
Grantham Institute and Department of Physics, Imperial College
London, London, UK
Zoë Thomas
Climate Change Research Centre, School of Biological, Earth and
Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Palaeontology, Geobiology and Earth Archives Research Centre, School
of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South
Wales, New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Matt McGlone
Landcare Research, P.O. Box 69040, Lincoln 7640, New Zealand
Sarah Richardson
Landcare Research, P.O. Box 69040, Lincoln 7640, New Zealand
Janet M. Wilmshurst
Landcare Research, P.O. Box 69040, Lincoln 7640, New Zealand
School of Environment, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Pavla Fenwick
Gondwana Tree-Ring Laboratory, P.O. Box 14, Little River 7546, Canterbury, New Zealand
Violette Zunz
Université catholique de Louvain, Earth and Life Institute,
Georges Lemaître Centre for Earth and Climate Research, Place Pasteur,
3, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Earth System Science and Departement Geografie, Vrije Universiteit
Brussels, Brussels, Belgium
Hugues Goosse
Université catholique de Louvain, Earth and Life Institute,
Georges Lemaître Centre for Earth and Climate Research, Place Pasteur,
3, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Kerry-Jayne Wilson
West Coast Penguin Trust, P.O. Box 70, Charleston 7865, West Coast,
New Zealand
Lionel Carter
Antarctic Research Centre, University of Victoria, Wellington, New
Zealand
Mathew Lipson
Climate Change Research Centre, School of Biological, Earth and
Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science, University of New
South Wales, New South Wales, Australia
Richard T. Jones
Geography, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, Exeter University, Devon, EX4 4RJ, Exeter, UK
Melanie Harsch
Department of Biology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA,
USA
Graeme Clark
Evolution and Ecology Research Centre, School of Biological, Earth
and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Ezequiel Marzinelli
Evolution and Ecology Research Centre, School of Biological, Earth
and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Sydney Institute of Marine Science, Chowder Bay Rd, Mosman, NSW 2088,
Australia
Tracey Rogers
Evolution and Ecology Research Centre, School of Biological, Earth
and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Eleanor Rainsley
Wollongong Isotope Geochronology Laboratory, School of Earth and
Environmental Sciences, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW 2522, Australia
Laura Ciasto
Geophysical Institute, University of Bergen, and Bjerknes Centre for
Climate Research, Bergen, Norway
Stephanie Waterman
Climate Change Research Centre, School of Biological, Earth and
Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science, University of New
South Wales, New South Wales, Australia
Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, University of
British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Elizabeth R. Thomas
British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, UK
Martin Visbeck
GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel and Kiel
University, Kiel, Germany
Data sets
The tree ring measurements from Campbell Island International Tree-Ring Data Bank https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo-search/study/21591
The Campbell Island temperature reconstruction NOAA/World Data Center for Paleoclimatology https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo-search/study/21590
Short summary
The Southern Ocean plays a fundamental role in global climate but suffers from a dearth of observational data. As the Australasian Antarctic Expedition 2013–2014 we have developed the first annually resolved temperature record using trees from subantarctic southwest Pacific (52–54˚S) to extend the climate record back to 1870. With modelling we show today's high climate variability became established in the ~1940s and likely driven by a Rossby wave response originating from the tropical Pacific.
The Southern Ocean plays a fundamental role in global climate but suffers from a dearth of...
