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A century of climate variability in central Dronning Maud Land, East Antarctica, and its relation to Southern Annular Mode and El Nino-Southern Oscillation

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Title A century of climate variability in central Dronning Maud Land, East Antarctica, and its relation to Southern Annular Mode and El Nino-Southern Oscillation
 
Creator Naik, S.S.
Thamban, M.
Laluraj, C.M.
Redkar, B.L.
Chaturvedi, A.
 
Subject climatic changes
oxygen isotopes
El Nino
southern oscillation
 
Description Stable isotope records of oxygen and hydrogen were studied from a 65 m long ice core retrieved from central Dronning Maud Land, East Antarctica, in order to reconstruct the coastal Antarctic climate variability during the last century and its relation to the Southern Annular Mode (SAM) and El Nino - Southern Oscillation (ENSO). The delta sup(18)O records showed a significant relation to the SAM with a dominant approx. 4 years variability, except during specific periods (1918-1927, 1938-1947, and 1989-2005) when ENSO teleconnection was established through the in-phase relation between SAM and Southern Oscillation Index (SOI). The combined influence of ENSO and SAM was seen on surface air temperatures in this region mainly during the austral summer season from 1989 to 2005. Further, a significant relationship between delta sup(18)O and SAM was observed on a decadal scale, which overrides the intermittent influence of ENSO. Major shifts in the deuterium excess record were observed during periods of ENSO teleconnections, which support a shift in moisture source regions during the periods of stronger ENSO teleconnections. Surface air temperatures estimated using the delta sup(18)O -T spatial slope for this region depicted a significant warming of 1 degrees C for the past century. The study reveals that throughout the last century, SAM was the dominant mode of climatic variability in the coastal region of central Dronning Maud Land on a decadal scale
 
Date 2010-09-01T07:28:18Z
2010-09-01T07:28:18Z
2010
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Journal of Geophysical Research (D: Atmos.), vol.115(16); doi:10.1029/2009JD013268, 12 pp.
http://drs.nio.org/drs/handle/2264/3702
 
Language en
 
Rights An edited version of this paper was published by AGU. Copyright [2010] AGU. To view the published version & open abstract, go to http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2009JD013268
 
Publisher American Geophysical Union