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Felis, Thomas; Lohmann, Gerrit; Kuhnert, Henning; Lorenz, Stefan J; Scholz, Denis; Pätzold, Jürgen; Al-Rousan, Saber; Al-Moghrabi, Salim M (2004): Coral oxygen isotope and Sr/Ca data from the Northern Gulf of Aqaba (Red Sea) [dataset publication series]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.735063, Supplement to: Felis, T et al. (2004): Increased seasonality in Middle East temperatures during the last interglacial period. Nature, 429(6988), 164-168, https://doi.org/10.1038/nature02546

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Abstract:
The last interglacial period (about 125,000 years ago) is thought to have been at least as warm as the present climate (Kukla et al., 2002, doi:10.1006/qres.2001.2316). Owing to changes in the Earth's orbit around the Sun, it is thought that insolation in the Northern Hemisphere varied more strongly than today on seasonal timescales (Berger, 1987, doi:10.1175/1520-0469(1978)035<2362:LTVODI>2.0.CO;2), which would have led to corresponding changes in the seasonal temperature cycle (Montoya et al., 2000, doi:10.1175/1520-0442(2000)013<1057:CSFKBW>2.0.CO;2). Here we present seasonally resolved proxy records using corals from the northernmost Red Sea, which record climate during the last interglacial period, the late Holocene epoch and the present. We find an increased seasonality in the temperature recorded in the last interglacial coral. Today, climate in the northern Red Sea is sensitive to the North Atlantic Oscillation (Felis et al., 2000 doi:10.1029/1999PA000477; Rimbu et al., 2001, doi:10.1029/2001GL013083), a climate oscillation that strongly influences winter temperatures and precipitation in the North Atlantic region. From our coral records and simulations with a coupled atmosphere-ocean circulation model, we conclude that a tendency towards the high-index state of the North Atlantic Oscillation during the last interglacial period, which is consistent with European proxy records (Zagwijn, 1996, doi:10.1016/0277-3791(96)00011-X; Aalbersberg and Litt, 1998, doi:10.1002/(SICI)1099-1417(1998090)13:5<367::AID-JQS400>3.0.CO;2-I; Klotz et al., 2003, doi:10.1016/S0921-8181(02)00222-9), contributed to the larger amplitude of the seasonal cycle in the Middle East.
Project(s):
Center for Marine Environmental Sciences (MARUM)
Climate in Historical Times (KIHZ)
Coverage:
Median Latitude: 29.459900 * Median Longitude: 34.949340 * South-bound Latitude: 29.381833 * West-bound Longitude: 34.919167 * North-bound Latitude: 29.504000 * East-bound Longitude: 34.973000
Date/Time Start: 1993-05-24T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1996-04-05T00:00:00
Event(s):
AQ2 * Latitude: 29.459000 * Longitude: 34.973000 * Elevation: -18.0 m * Location: Northern Gulf of Aqaba (Aqaba/Jordan, Red Sea) * Campaign: Aqaba96_00 * Basis: Sampling/drilling corals * Method/Device: Sampling by diver (DIVER)
AQB-3A * Latitude: 29.452000 * Longitude: 34.971330 * Location: Northern Gulf of Aqaba (Aqaba/Jordan, Red Sea) * Campaign: Aqaba96_00 * Basis: Sampling/drilling corals * Method/Device: Drilling/drill rig (DRILL)
AQB-10B * Latitude: 29.381830 * Longitude: 34.964000 * Location: Northern Gulf of Aqaba (Aqaba/Jordan, Red Sea) * Campaign: Aqaba96_00 * Basis: Sampling/drilling corals * Method/Device: Drilling/drill rig (DRILL)
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Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC-BY-3.0)
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  1. Felis, T; Lohmann, G; Kuhnert, H et al. (2004): Coral oxygen isotope and Sr/Ca data from the Northern Gulf of Aqaba (modern), sample AQ2. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.143969
  2. Felis, T; Lohmann, G; Kuhnert, H et al. (2004): Coral oxygen isotope and Sr/Ca data from the Northern Gulf of Aqaba (last interglacial), sample AQB-3-A. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.144193
  3. Felis, T; Lohmann, G; Kuhnert, H et al. (2004): Coral oxygen isotope and Sr/Ca data from the Northern Gulf of Aqaba (late Holocene), sample AQB-10-B. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.144160
  4. Felis, T; Lohmann, G; Kuhnert, H et al. (2004): Coral oxygen isotope and Sr/Ca data from the Northern Gulf of Aqaba (modern), sample EILAT-1. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.143970
  5. Felis, T; Lohmann, G; Kuhnert, H et al. (2004): Coral oxygen isotope and Sr/Ca data from the Northern Gulf of Aqaba (modern), sample EILAT-15B. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.144435