Campagne, Philippine; Crosta, Xavier; Schmidt, Sabine; Houssais, Marie-Noëlle; Ther, Olivier; Massé, Guillaume (2016): Sequence of seasonally to annually laminated diatomaceous sediment from sediment core DTCI2010 retrieved on the continental shelf off Adélie Land, covering the 1970-2010 CE period [dataset publication series]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.863075, Supplement to: Campagne, Philippine; Crosta, Xavier; Schmidt, Sabine; Houssais, Marie-Noëlle; Ther, Olivier; Massé, Guillaume (2016): Sedimentary response to sea ice and atmospheric variability over the instrumental period off Adélie Land, East Antarctica. Biogeosciences, 13(14), 4205-4218, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-13-4205-2016
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Abstract:
Diatoms account for a large proportion of primary productivity in Antarctic coastal and continental shelf zones. Diatoms, which have been used for a long time to infer past sea surface conditions in the Southern Ocean, have recently been associated with diatom-specific biomarkers (highly branched isoprenoids, HBI). Our study is one of the few sedimentary research projects on diatom ecology and associated biomarkers in the Antarctic seasonal sea ice zone. To date, the Adélie Land region has received little attention, despite evidence for the presence of high accumulation of laminated sediment, allowing for finer climate reconstructions and sedimentary process studies. Here we provide a sequence of seasonally to annually laminated diatomaceous sediment from a 72.5 cm interface core retrieved on the continental shelf off Adélie Land, covering the 1970-2010 CE period. Investigations through statistical analyses of diatom communities, diatom-specific biomarkers and major element abundances document the relationships between these proxies at an unprecedented resolution. Additionally, comparison of sedimentary records to meteorological data monitored by automatic weather station and satellite derived sea ice concentrations help to refine the relationships between our proxies and environmental conditions over the last decades. Our results suggest a coupled interaction of the atmospheric and sea surface variability on sea ice seasonality, which acts as the proximal forcing of siliceous productivity at that scale.
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Climate Change: Learning from the past climate (Past4Future)
Funding:
Seventh Framework Programme (FP7), grant/award no. 243908: Climate Change: Learning from the past climate
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Latitude: -66.411330 * Longitude: 140.444500
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Data produced within the framework of the ERC StG ICEPROXY project (203441), the ANR CLIMICE project, the FP7 Past4Future project (243908) and the ESF PolarClimate HOLOCLIP project.
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- Campagne, P; Crosta, X; Schmidt, S et al. (2016): Chronology based on 210Pb of sediment core DTCI2010. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.863071
- Campagne, P; Crosta, X; Schmidt, S et al. (2016): Diatom relative abundances of sediment core DTCI2010. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.863072
- Campagne, P; Crosta, X; Schmidt, S et al. (2016): Highly branched isoprenoid concentrations of sediment core DTCI2010. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.863073
- Campagne, P; Crosta, X; Schmidt, S et al. (2016): XRF core-scanner content of sediment core DTCI2010. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.863074