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dc.contributor.authorvan der Bilt, Willem Godert Maria
dc.contributor.authorD’Andrea, William J.
dc.contributor.authorOppedal, Lea Toska
dc.contributor.authorBakke, Jostein
dc.contributor.authorBjune, Anne Elisabeth
dc.contributor.authorZwier, Maaike
dc.date.accessioned2022-12-01T10:34:35Z
dc.date.available2022-12-01T10:34:35Z
dc.date.created2022-11-08T15:20:20Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.identifier.issn2662-4435
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11250/3035280
dc.description.abstractThe Southern Hemisphere westerly winds sustain the Southern Ocean’s role as one of Earth’s main carbon sinks, and have helped sequester nearly half the anthropogenic CO2 stored in the ocean. Observations show shifts in the vigor of this climate regulator, but models disagree how future change impacts carbon storage due to scarce baseline data. Here, we use the hydrogen isotope ratios of sedimentary lipids to resolve Holocene changes in Southern Hemisphere westerly wind strength. Our reconstruction reveals stable values until ~2150 years ago when aquatic compounds became more 2H-enriched. We attribute this isotope excursion to wind-driven lake water evaporation, and regional paleoclimate evidence shows it marks a trend towards a negative Southern Annular Mode – the Southern Ocean’s main mode of atmospheric variability. Because this shift is unmatched in the past 7000 years, our findings suggest that previously published millennium-long Southern Annular Mode indices used to benchmark future change may not capture the full range of natural variability.en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherSpringer Natureen_US
dc.rightsNavngivelse 4.0 Internasjonal*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.no*
dc.titleStable Southern Hemisphere westerly winds throughout the Holocene until intensification in the last two millenniaen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US
dc.description.versionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2022 the authorsen_US
dc.source.articlenumber186en_US
cristin.ispublishedtrue
cristin.fulltextoriginal
cristin.qualitycode1
dc.identifier.doi10.1038/s43247-022-00512-8
dc.identifier.cristin2070756
dc.source.journalCommunications Earth & Environmenten_US
dc.identifier.citationCommunications Earth & Environment. 2022, 3, 186.en_US
dc.source.volume3en_US


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