2/02/2014

This Week New Papers (2014/1/27-2/2) AGU,EGU


AGU
G3
Determination of B/Ca of natural carbonates by HR-ICP-MS
Sambuddha Misra, Mervyn Greaves, Robert Owen, Joanna Kerr, Aurora C Elmore, Henry Elderfield
DOI: 10.1002/2013GC005049
B/Ca and Me/Ca determination from < 5 µg CaCO3
External precision < 4.0% (2σ) on B/Ca
Analysis of Me/Ca from single foraminifera shell

Model evaluation of the coherence of a common source water oxygen isotopic signal recorded by tree-ring cellulose and speleothem calcite
S. R. Managave
DOI: 10.1002/2013GC004983
Oxygen isotopic composition variation of rain affects correlation between oxygen isotopic composition records of two proxies
Relative humidity affects the correlation between oxygen isotopic composition records of two proxies
Subannual tree-ring oxygen isotopic composition analysis might be better for integrating two proxies

Calcite saturation, foraminiferal test mass, and Mg/Ca-based temperatures dissolution corrected using XDX: A 150 ka record from the western Indian Ocean
Heather J.H. Johnstone, Thorsten Kiefer, Henry Elderfield, Michael Schulz
DOI: 10.1002/2013GC004994
Foraminifer dissolution index XDX gives deepwater calcite saturation
XDX used to correct dissolution bias in Mg/Ca and shell mass records
Corrected records for the core (WIND28K) are compared to published data

GRL
Swiss tree-rings reveal warm and wet summers during medieval times
Anne Kress, Sarah Hangartner, Harald Bugmann, Ulf Büntgen, David C. Frank, Markus Leuenberger, Rolf T.W. Siegwolf, Matthias Saurer
DOI: 10.1002/2013GL059081
A 1200year drought reconstruction for the Swiss Alps was established
The treering carbon isotope ratios at the site are highly moisturesensitive
The data fill a gap in our knowledge about medieval hydroclimate

What is Responsible for the Strong Observed Asymmetry in Teleconnections Between El Niño and La Niña?
Tao Zhang, Judith Perlwitz, Martin P. Hoerling
DOI: 10.1002/2013GL058964
Asymmetry is a fundamental property of atmospheric responses to recent ENSO
Strong observed asymmetry in ENSO teleconnections is from sampling variability
True ENSO symmetric component is likely greater than asymmetric component

Inter-model Spread of East Asian Summer Monsoon Simulations in CMIP5
Jinqiang Chen, Simona Bordoni
DOI: 10.1002/2013GL058981
High correlations exist between monsoon precipitation and stationary eddies

JGR Oceans
Distinct modes of East Asian Winter Monsoon documented by a southern Red Sea coral record
Monica Ionita, Thomas Felis, Gerrit Lohmann, Norel Rimbu, Jürgen Pätzold
DOI: 10.1002/2013JC009203
The coral documents information on ENSO-like variability and stationarity
Abrupt shift in the relationship of the coral with ENSO
Strong influence of EAWM and Siberian High after 1960s

Paleoceanography
GBC
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EGU
Climate of the Past
Biogeochemical variability during the past 3.6 million years recorded by FTIR spectroscopy in the sediment record of Lake El'gygytgyn, Far East Russian Arctic
C. Meyer-Jacob, H. Vogel, A. C. Gebhardt, V. Wennrich, M. Melles, and P. Rosén
doi:10.5194/cp-10-209-2014
    Developed calibration models based on Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIRS) for the quantitative determination of biogenic silica (BSi), total organic carbon (TOC), and total inorganic carbon (TIC) in a 318 m-long sediment record with a basal age of 3.6 million years from Lake El'gygytgyn, Far East Russian Arctic.
    High accumulation rates of BSi indicate a productivity maximum during the middle Pliocene (3.6–3.3 Ma), followed by gradually decreasing rates during the late Pliocene and Quaternary. The average BSi accumulation during the middle Pliocene was ~3 times higher than maximum accumulation rates during the past 1.5 million years. The indicated progressive deterioration of environmental and climatic conditions in the Siberian Arctic starting at ca. 3.3 Ma is consistent with the first occurrence of glacial periods and the finally complete establishment of glacial–interglacial cycles during the Quaternary.