Indian summer monsoon forcing on the deglacial polar cold reversals
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2017Author
Banakar, V.K.
Baidya, S.
Piotrowski, A.M.
Shankar, D.
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The deglacial transition from the last glacial maximum at similar to 20 kiloyears before present (ka) to the Holocene (11.7 ka to Present) was interrupted by millennial-scale cold reversals, viz., Antarctic Cold Reversal (similar to 14.5-12.8 ka) and Greenland Younger Dryas (similar to 12.8-11.8 ka) which had different timings and extent of cooling in each hemisphere. The cause of this synchronously initiated, but different hemispheric cooling during these cold reversals (Antarctic Cold Reversal similar to 3 degrees C and Younger Dryas similar to 10 degrees C) is elusive because CO2, the fundamental forcing for deglaciation, and Atlantic meridional overturning circulation, the driver of antiphased bipolar climate response, both fail to explain this asymmetry. We use centennial-resolution records of the local surface water delta O-18 of the Eastern Arabian Sea, which constitutes a proxy for the precipitation associated with the Indian Summer Monsoon, and other tropical precipitation records to deduce the role of tropical forcing in the polar cold reversals. We hypothesize a mechanism for tropical forcing, via the Indian Summer Monsoons, of the polar cold reversals by migration of the Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone and the associated cross-equatorial heat transport.
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