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Safaierad, Reza; Mohtadi, Mahyar; Zolitschka, Bernd; Yokoyama, Yusuke; Vogt, Christoph; Schefuß, Enno (2020): XRF, XRD, grainsize and total organic carbon in core Konar Sandal peat bog, SE Iran [dataset publication series]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.918548

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Published: 2020-06-09 • DOI registered: 2020-09-01

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Abstract:
Rapid North Atlantic cooling events during the last deglaciation caused atmospheric reorganizations on global and regional scales. Their impact on Asian climate has been investigated for monsoonal domains, but remains largely unknown in westerly wind-dominated semi-arid regions. Here we generate a dust record from southeastern Iran spanning the period 19-7 cal. ka BP. We find a direct link between frequent occurrences of dust plumes originating from the Arabian Peninsula and North Africa, and rapid southward shifts of the westerlies associated with changes of the winter stationary waves during Heinrich Stadial 1, the Younger Dryas, the Preboreal Oscillation and the 8.2 ka event. Dust input rises and falls abruptly at the transitions into and out of these cooling events, which we attribute to changes in the ocean circulation strength and modulated by the North Atlantic winter sea-ice cover. Our findings reveal that waxing and waning of North American ice sheets have a stronger influence than those of European ice sheets on the winter climate over West Asia.
Keyword(s):
Atmospheric dust; North Atlantic cooling; Northern Hemisphere Westerlies; sea-ice; West Asia
Supplement to:
Safaierad, Reza; Mohtadi, Mahyar; Zolitschka, Bernd; Yokoyama, Yusuke; Vogt, Christoph; Schefuß, Enno (2020): Elevated dust depositions in West Asia linked to ocean–atmosphere shifts during North Atlantic cold events. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 202004071, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2004071117
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Latitude: 28.533889 * Longitude: 57.781389
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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY-4.0)
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  1. Safaierad, R; Mohtadi, M; Zolitschka, B et al. (2020): Grain size of core Konar Sandal peat bog, SE Iran. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.918536
  2. Safaierad, R; Mohtadi, M; Zolitschka, B et al. (2020): Total organic carbon of core Konar Sandal peat bog, SE Iran. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.918537
  3. Safaierad, R; Mohtadi, M; Zolitschka, B et al. (2020): XRD analyses of core Konar Sandal peat bog, SE Iran. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.918544
  4. Safaierad, R; Mohtadi, M; Zolitschka, B et al. (2020): X-ray fluorescence (XRF) measurements of core Konar Sandal peat bog, SE Iran. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.918539