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Overturning circulation, nutrient limitation, and warming in the Glacial North Pacific

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Date
09/12/2020
Author
Rae, James W. B.
Gray, W. R.
Wills, R. C. J.
Eisenman, I.
Fitzhugh, B.
Fotheringham, M.
Littley, Eloise
Rafter, P. A.
Rees-Owen, Rhian Laura
Ridgwell, A.
Taylor, Ben
Burke, Andrea
Funder
NERC
Grant ID
NE/N011716/1
Keywords
GC Oceanography
DAS
BDC
R2C
SDG 13 - Climate Action
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Abstract
Although the Pacific Ocean is a major reservoir of heat and CO2, and thus an important component of the global climate system, its circulation under different climatic conditions is poorly understood. Here, we present evidence that during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM), the North Pacific was better ventilated at intermediate depths and had surface waters with lower nutrients, higher salinity, and warmer temperatures compared to today. Modeling shows that this pattern is well explained by enhanced Pacific meridional overturning circulation (PMOC), which brings warm, salty, and nutrient-poor subtropical waters to high latitudes. Enhanced PMOC at the LGM would have lowered atmospheric CO2—in part through synergy with the Southern Ocean—and supported an equable regional climate, which may have aided human habitability in Beringia, and migration from Asia to North America.
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Rae , J W B , Gray , W R , Wills , R C J , Eisenman , I , Fitzhugh , B , Fotheringham , M , Littley , E , Rafter , P A , Rees-Owen , R L , Ridgwell , A , Taylor , B & Burke , A 2020 , ' Overturning circulation, nutrient limitation, and warming in the Glacial North Pacific ' , Science Advances , vol. 6 , no. 50 , eabd1654 . https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abd1654
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Science Advances
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abd1654
ISSN
2375-2548
Type
Journal article
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Copyright © 2020 The Authors, some rights reserved; exclusive licensee American Association for the Advancement of Science. No claim to original U.S. Government Works. Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial License 4.0 (CC BY-NC).
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This work was funded by NERC grant NE/N011716/1 to J.W.B.R., a NERC studentship to B.T., and NSF grant OPP 1643445 to I.E. A.R. acknowledges support from NSF grant 1736771.
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URL
https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/50/eabd1654/tab-figures-data
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10023/21128

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