Open AccessMulticentennial‐scale hydrological changes in the Black Sea and northern Red Sea during the Holocene and the Arctic/North Atlantic Oscillation
Author(s) -
Lamy Frank,
Arz Helge W.,
Bond Gérard C.,
Bahr André,
Pätzold Jürgen
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
paleoceanography
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1944-9186
pISSN - 0883-8305
DOI - 10.1029/2005pa001184
Subject(s) - north atlantic oscillation , geology , holocene , oceanography , climatology , atlantic multidecadal oscillation , arctic , arctic oscillation , arctic dipole anomaly , aeolian processes , the arctic , paleontology , arctic ice pack , drift ice
Paleoenvironmental proxy data for ocean properties, eolian sediment input, and continental rainfall based on high‐resolution analyses of sediment cores from the southwestern Black Sea and the northernmost Gulf of Aqaba were used to infer hydroclimatic changes in northern Anatolia and the northern Red Sea region during the last ∼7500 years. Pronounced and coherent multicentennial variations in these records reveal patterns that strongly resemble modern temperature and rainfall anomalies related to the Arctic Oscillation/North Atlantic Oscillation ( AO/NAO). These patterns suggest a prominent role of AO/NAO–like atmospheric variability during the Holocene beyond interannual to interdecadal timescales, most likely originating from solar output changes.