noaa-coral-1883
Aqaba, Eilat - Northern Gulf of Aqaba Modern and Fossil Coral d18O and Sr/Ca Data
Felis, T.; Lohmann, G.; Kuhnert, H.; Lorenz, S.J.; Scholz, D.; Pätzold, J.; Al-Rousan, S.A.; Al-Moghrabi, S.M.
Aqaba, Eilat - Northern Gulf of Aqaba Modern and Fossil Coral d18O and Sr/Ca Data
2004-07-01
NCDC-Paleoclimatology
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https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/study/1883
Investigator
T.
Felis
Investigator
G.
Lohmann
Investigator
H.
Kuhnert
Investigator
S.J.
Lorenz
Investigator
D.
Scholz
Investigator
J.
Pätzold
Investigator
S.A.
Al-Rousan
Investigator
S.M.
Al-Moghrabi
earth science
paleoclimate
corals and sclerosponges
age,null,null,year Common Era,null,corals and sclerosponges,null,null,N,null
earth science
paleoclimate
corals and sclerosponges
strontium/calcium,Porites sp.,null,millimole per mole,null,corals and sclerosponges,interpolated,inductively-coupled plasma mass spectrometry,N,null
earth science
paleoclimate
corals and sclerosponges
delta 18O,Porites sp.,null,per mil VPDB,null,corals and sclerosponges,interpolated,isotope ratio mass spectrometry,N,null
earth science
paleoclimate
corals and sclerosponges
age,null,null,year,null,corals and sclerosponges,null,null,N,null
earth science
paleoclimate
corals and sclerosponges
oxygen isotopes
earth science
paleoclimate
corals and sclerosponges
trace metals
geoscientificInformation
-119944 AD
1996 AD
121894 cal yr BP
-46 cal yr BP
Complete
29.42
29.5
34.92
34.97
-4
-4
Continent
Asia
Western Asia
Middle East
Israel
Eilat>LATITUDE 29.5>LONGITUDE 34.92
Continent
Asia
Western Asia
Middle East
Jordan
Aqaba>LATITUDE 29.42>LONGITUDE 34.97
None
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ASCII
Felis, T., G. Lohmann, H. Kuhnert, S.J. Lorenz, D. Scholz, J. Pätzold, S.A. Al-Rousan, and S.M. Al-Moghrabi. 2004. Increased seasonality in Middle East temperatures during the last interglacial period. Nature 429(6988):164-168.
The last interglacial period (about 125,000 years ago) is thought to have been at least as warm as the present climate. Owing to changes in the Earth's orbit around the Sun, it is thought that insolation in the Northern Hemisphere varied more strongly than today on seasonal timescales, which would have led to corresponding changes in the seasonal temperature cycle. Here we present seasonally resolved proxy records using corals from the northernmost Red Sea, which record climate during the last interglacial period, the late Holocene epoch and the present. We find an increased seasonality in the temperature recorded in the last interglacial coral. Today, climate in the northern Red Sea is sensitive to the North Atlantic Oscillation, a climate oscillation that strongly influences winter temperatures and precipitation in the North Atlantic region. From our coral records and simulations with a coupled atmosphere-ocean circulation model, we conclude that a tendency towards the high-index state of the North Atlantic Oscillation during the last interglacial period, which is consistent with European proxy records, contributed to the larger amplitude of the seasonal cycle in the Middle East.
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