Curry, William B; Oppo, Delia W (1997): Stable isotope record of foraminifera from sediment core EW9209-1JPC [dataset publication series]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.730044, Supplement to: Curry, WB; Oppo, DW (1997): Synchronous, high-frequency oscillations in tropical sea surface temperatures and North Atlantic Deep Water productivity during the last glacial cycle. Paleoceanography, 12(1), 1-14, https://doi.org/10.1029/96PA02413
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Stable isotopic measurements of G. sacculifer and C. wuellerstorfi in a core from the western equatorial Atlantic imply that there are parallel, suborbital oscillations in surface water hydrography and deep water circulation occurring during oxygen isotope stages 2 and 3. Low values of G. sacculifer delta18O accompany high values of C. wuellerstorfi delta13C, linking warmer sea surface temperatures (SSTs) in the tropics with increased production of lower North Atlantic Deep Water (NADW). The amplitude of the delta18O oscillations is 0.6 per mil (or 2°-3°C), which is superimposed on a glacial/interglacial amplitude of about 2.1per mil. Using the G. sacculifer delta18O data, we calculate that surface waters were colder during stage 2 than calculated by CLIMAP [1976, 1981]. The longer-period (>2 kyr) oscillations in air temperature recorded in the Greenland and Antarctic ice cores appear to correlate with oscillations in sea surface temperature in the equatorial Atlantic. The magnitude of these oscillations in tropical SST is too large to have resulted from changes in meridional heat transport caused by the global conveyor alone. The apparent synchroneity of equatorial SST and polar air temperature changes, as well as the amplitude of the SST changes at the equator, are consistent with the climate effects expected from changes in the atmosphere's greenhouse gas content (H2Ovapor, CO2, and CH4).
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- Curry, WB; Oppo, DW (1999): (Table 1) Age determination of sediment core EW9209-1JPC. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.55568
- Curry, WB; Oppo, DW (1997): (Figure 5) Stable isotope ratios of foraminifera from sediment core EW9209-1JPC. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.53145
- Curry, WB; Oppo, DW (1997): (Figure 3) Stable isotope ratio of Cibicidoides wuellerstorfi from sediment core EW9209-1JPC. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.53146
- Curry, WB; Oppo, DW (1997): (Figure 3) Stable isotope ratio of Globigerinoides sacculifer from sediment core EW9209-1JPC. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.53147