A high-resolution delta O-18 record and Mediterranean climate variability

作者：Taricco C^*; Vivaldo G; Alessio S; Rubinetti S; Mancuso S

来源：Climate of the Past, 2015, 11(3): 509-522.

DOI：10.5194/cp-11-509-2015

A high-resolution, well-dated foraminiferal delta O-18 record from a shallow-water core drilled from the Gallipoli Terrace in the Gulf of Taranto (Ionian Sea), previously measured over the last two millennia, has been extended to cover 707 BC-AD 1979. Spectral analysis of this series, performed using singular-spectrum analysis (SSA) and other classical and advanced methods, strengthens the results obtained analysing the shorter delta O-18 profile, detecting the same highly significant oscillations of about 600, 380, 170, 130 and 11 years, respectively explaining about 12, 7, 5, 2 and 2% of the time series total variance, plus a millennial trend (18% of the variance). The comparison with the results of multi-channel singular-spectrum analysis (MSSA) applied to a data set of 26 Northern Hemisphere (NH) temperature-proxy records shows that NH temperature anomalies share with our local record a long-term trend and a bicentennial (170-year period) cycle. These two variability modes, previously identified as temperature-driven, are the most powerful modes in the NH temperature data set. Both the long-term trends and the bicentennial oscillations, when reconstructed locally and hemispherically, show coherent phases. Furthermore, the corresponding local and hemispheric amplitudes are comparable if changes in the precipitation-evaporation balance of the Ionian sea, presumably associated with temperature changes, are taken into account.

• 出版日期2015