SPCZ migration and ENSO events during the 20th century as revealed by climate proxies from a Fiji coral
Instrumental sea surface temperature (SST) and sea surface salinity (SSS) records since 1975 have indicated that migrations of the South Pacific Convergence Zone (SPCZ) are strongly related to El Niño‐Southern Oscillation (ENSO) events. To reconstruct independent SSS and SST time series for the past...
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Published in | Geophysical research letters Vol. 33; no. 17; pp. L17710 - n/a |
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Main Authors | , , , , , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
Published |
Washington, DC
American Geophysical Union
01.09.2006
Blackwell Publishing Ltd |
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Summary: | Instrumental sea surface temperature (SST) and sea surface salinity (SSS) records since 1975 have indicated that migrations of the South Pacific Convergence Zone (SPCZ) are strongly related to El Niño‐Southern Oscillation (ENSO) events. To reconstruct independent SSS and SST time series for the past century and document this SPCZ and ENSO relationship prior to 1975, we apply a neural network analysis to seven climate proxies derived from a coral skeleton collected in Fiji. These reconstructions suggest that five SPCZ migrations linked to ENSO occurred between 1908 and 1970 while as many migrations occurred during the last three decades, highlighting the recent enhanced frequency of ENSO occurrence. |
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Bibliography: | istex:FD02E89CED9ABC9BD1A305D1A18C913BF7CAE002 ArticleID:2006GL025950 ark:/67375/WNG-MRLRFZFL-Z ObjectType-Article-1 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 content type line 23 |
ISSN: | 0094-8276 1944-8007 |
DOI: | 10.1029/2006GL025950 |