noaa-ocean-10529
Mediterranean Sea Little Ice Age Coccolithophore Data
Incarbona, A.; Ziveri, P.; Di Stefano, E.; Lirer, F.; Mortyn, G.; Patti, B.; Pelosi, N.; Sprovieri, M.; Tranchida, G.; Vallefuoco, M.; Albertazzi, S.; Bellucci, L.G.; Bonanno, A.; Bonomo, S.; Censi, P.; Ferraro, L.; Giuliani, S.; Mazzola, S.; Sprovieri, R.
Mediterranean Sea Little Ice Age Coccolithophore Data
2011-02-10
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Investigator
A.
Incarbona
Investigator
P.
Ziveri
Investigator
E.
Di Stefano
Investigator
F.
Lirer
Investigator
G.
Mortyn
Investigator
B.
Patti
Investigator
N.
Pelosi
Investigator
M.
Sprovieri
Investigator
G.
Tranchida
Investigator
M.
Vallefuoco
Investigator
S.
Albertazzi
Investigator
L.G.
Bellucci
Investigator
A.
Bonanno
Investigator
S.
Bonomo
Investigator
P.
Censi
Investigator
L.
Ferraro
Investigator
S.
Giuliani
Investigator
S.
Mazzola
Investigator
R.
Sprovieri
earth science
paleoclimate
paleocean
population abundance
geoscientificInformation
Little Ice Age (LIA)
1620 AD
2006 AD
330 cal yr BP
-56 cal yr BP
Complete
36.3833
40.6
12.8
14.7
-858
-103
Ocean
Atlantic Ocean
North Atlantic Ocean
Mediterranean Sea
St 342>LATITUDE 36.7>LONGITUDE 13.9167
Ocean
Atlantic Ocean
North Atlantic Ocean
Mediterranean Sea
St 407>LATITUDE 36.3833>LONGITUDE 14.45
Ocean
Atlantic Ocean
North Atlantic Ocean
Mediterranean Sea
C90-1M>LATITUDE 40.6>LONGITUDE 14.7
Ocean
Atlantic Ocean
North Atlantic Ocean
Mediterranean Sea
St 272>LATITUDE 37.2833>LONGITUDE 12.8
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Incarbona, A., P. Ziveri, E. Di Stefano, F. Lirer, G. Mortyn,
B. Patti, N. Pelosi, M. Sprovieri, G. Tranchida, M. Vallefuoco,
S. Albertazzi, L.G. Bellucci, A. Bonanno, S. Bonomo, P. Censi,
L. Ferraro, S. Giuliani, S. Mazzola, and R. Sprovieri. 2010.
The Impact of the Little Ice Age on Coccolithophores in the
Central Mediterranean Sea.
Climate of the Past, Vol. 6, pp. 795-805.
doi:10.5194/cp-6-795-2010.
The Little Ice Age (LIA) is the last episode of a series of
Holocene climatic anomalies. There is still little knowledge
on the response of the marine environment to the pronounced
cooling of the LIA and to the transition towards the 20th
century global warming. Here we present decadal-scale
coccolithophore data from four short cores recovered from
the central Mediterranean Sea (northern Sicily Channel
and Tyrrhenian Sea), which on the basis of 210Pb activity
span the last 200-350 years. The lowermost part of the record
of one of the cores from the Sicily Channel, Station 407,
which extends down to 1650 AD, is characterized by drastic
changes in productivity. Specifically, below 1850 AD, the
decrease in abundance of F. profunda and the increase of
placoliths, suggest increased productivity. The chronology
of this change is related to the main phase of the Little
Ice Age, which might have impacted the hydrography of the
southern coast of Sicily and promoted vertical mixing in
the water column. The comparison with climatic forcings
points out the importance of stronger and prolonged
northerly winds, together with decreased solar irradiance.
STUDY NOTES: Coccolithophore data at decadal resolution from four
short cores recovered from the central Mediterranean Sea.
Taxa were grouped following Di Stefano and Incarbona (2004)
and Incarbona et al. (2009).
"Placoliths" are r-strategist taxa considered as a proxy
of high productivity conditions.
"Miscellaneous group" taxa comprise those that live without
any specific depth and within a wide range of ecological
preferences.
"Upper photic zone" (UPZ) taxa are K-strategists, specialized
to live in warm subtropical surface waters and to exploit
a minimum amount of nutrients.
F. profunda is the main species of the "lower photic zone"
(LPZ) group.
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