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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2020

Elevated dust depositions in West Asia linked to ocean-atmosphere shifts during North Atlantic cold events.

Reza Safaierad, Mahyar Mohtadi, Bernd Zolitschka, Yusuke Yokoyama, Christoph Vogt, Enno Schefuß

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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6 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Reza SafaieradDepartment of Physical Geography, University of Tehran, 14155-6465 Tehran, Iran.ORCID 0000-0002-8295-2560
Mahyar MohtadiMARUM-Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen, 28359 Bremen, Germany; mmohtadi@marum.de.ORCID 0000-0003-3306-0969
Bernd ZolitschkaInstitute of Geography (GEOPOLAR), University of Bremen, 28359 Bremen, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-8256-0420
Yusuke YokoyamaAtmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, University of Tokyo, 113-0033 Tokyo, Japan.ORCID 0000-0001-7869-5891
Christoph VogtFaculty of Geosciences, University of Bremen, 28359 Bremen, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-5376-9011
Enno SchefußMARUM-Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen, 28359 Bremen, Germany.
University of Bremen · DEThe University of Tokyo · JPUniversity of Tehran · IR

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6 · The paper itself

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 semiarid regions. Here we generate a dust record from southeastern Iran spanning the period 19 to 7 cal. ka B.P. 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 that are 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.

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atmospheric dustNorth Atlantic coolingNorthern Hemisphere westerliessea iceWest Asia

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PMID32690680
PMCPMC7415413
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