Objective
Understanding past climate change is crucially dependent on understanding oceanic and atmospheric circulation. The atmospheric contribution to paleoclimate is poorly constrained, especially on long (orbital) timescales that might provide meaningful information about the forcing mechanisms of major atmospheric components such as the monsoons. Aeolian dust preserved in deep-sea sediments provides an excellent means of determining past variations in continental paleoclimate and atmospheric circulation.
Previous studies have focused mainly on sedimentologically determined variations of clay and quartz concentrations in aeolian dust. Direct comparison of dust records among different ocean cores and between the North Pacific Ocean and the Asian continent is hampered by poor age control and by poor data resolution from marine cores. Sediment magnetic parameters can efficiently provide high-resolution data for reconstructing paleoclimatic fluctuations.
This project aims to detect systematic spatial-temporal variations in magnetic parameters as proxies of the Asian aeolian dust flux recorded in North Pacific marine sediments along a downwind longitudinal transect over the last several million years. Age models will be determined by a combination of relative paleointensity, oxygen isotope and paleomagnetic reversal stratigraphies. Paleoclimatically controlled variations in grain size and concentration of magnetite, hematite and goethite will be quantified and interpreted along with constraints from non-magnetic parameters (e.g. oxygen isotopes, Ti/Al ratios). We aim to detect how terrigenous dust flux is controlled at the full range of orbital periods. In turn, this will provide important constraints on the forcing mechanisms that drive atmospheric circulation and the Asian Monsoon.
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- natural sciences earth and related environmental sciences palaeontology paleoclimatology
- agricultural sciences agriculture, forestry, and fisheries agriculture grains and oilseeds
- natural sciences earth and related environmental sciences atmospheric sciences meteorology atmospheric circulation
- natural sciences earth and related environmental sciences atmospheric sciences climatology climatic changes
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FP6-2002-MOBILITY-7
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IIF - Marie Curie actions-Incoming International Fellowships
Coordinator
SOUTHAMPTON
United Kingdom
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