Testing the role of Mediterranean thermohaline circulation as a sensor of transient climate events and shaker of North Atlantic Circulation

Project Information

TIMED

Grant agreement ID: 683237

DOI 10.3030/683237

Project closed

EC signature date 4 April 2016

Start date 1 January 2017

End date 30 June 2023

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost € 2 400 000,00

EU contribution € 2 400 000,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITAT DE BARCELONA
Spain

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (21)

Solar Forcing for Nutricline Depth variability inferred by Coccoliths in the Pre- Industrial Northwestern Mediterranean

Author(s): Alessandro Incarbona, Sergio Bonomo, Isabel Cacho, Fabrizio Lirer, Giulia Margaritelli, Delia Pecoraro, Patrizia Ziveri
Published in: Global and Planetary Change, 2023, ISSN 0921-8181
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2023.104102

Hydroclimate variability during the last 2700 years based on stalagmite multi-proxy records in the central-western Mediterranean

Author(s): Mercè Cisneros, Isabel Cacho, Ana Moreno, Heather Stoll, Judit Torner, Albert Català, R. Lawrence Edwards, Hai Cheng, Joan J. Fornós
Published in: Quaternary Science Reviews, Issue 269, 2021, Page(s) 107137, ISSN 0277-3791
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2021.107137

Surface hydrographic changes at the western flank of the Sicily Channel associated with the last sapropel

Author(s): Sergio Trias-Navarro, Isabel Cacho, Maria de la Fuente, Leopoldo D. Pena, Jaime Frigola, Fabrizio Lirer, Antonio Caruso
Published in: Global and Planetary Change, Issue 204, 2021, Page(s) 103582, ISSN 0921-8181
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2021.103582

Persistent warm Mediterranean surface waters during the Roman period

Author(s): G. Margaritelli, I. Cacho, A. Català, M. Barra, L. G. Bellucci, C. Lubritto, R. Rettori, F. Lirer
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 10/1, 2020, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-67281-2

The Late Pleistocene to Holocene tephra record of ND14Q site (southern Adriatic Sea): Traceability and preservation of Neapolitan explosive products in the marine realm

Author(s): Federica Totaro, Donatella D Insinga, Fabrizio Lirer, Giulia Margaritelli, Albert Catala i Caparros, Maria de la Fuente, Paola Petrosino
Published in: JOURNAL OF VOLCANOLOGY AND GEOTHERMAL RESEARCH, 2022, ISSN 0377-0273
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2021.107461

Globorotalia truncatulinoides in Central - Western Mediterranean Sea during the Little Ice Age

Author(s): Giulia Margaritelli, Fabrizio Lirer, Katrin Schroeder, Ines Alberico, Maria Paola Dentici, Antonio Caruso
Published in: Marine Micropaleontology, Issue 161, 2020, Page(s) 101921, ISSN 0377-8398
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.marmicro.2020.101921

Globorotalia truncatulinoides in the Mediterranean Basin during the Middle–Late Holocene: Bio-Chronological and Oceanographic Indicator

Author(s): Giulia Margaritelli, Fabrizio Lirer, Katrin Schroeder, Angela Cloke-Hayes, Antonio Caruso, Lucilla Capotondi, Teresa Broggy, Isabel Cacho, Francisco J.Sierro
Published in: Geosciences, 2022, ISSN 2076-3263
Publisher: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/geosciences12060244

Living coccolithophore communities in the central Mediterranean Sea (Summer 2016): Relations between ecology and oceanography

Author(s): S. Bonomo, K Schroeder, A. Cascella, I. Alberico, F. Lirer
Published in: Marine Micropaleontology, 2021, ISSN 0377-8398
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.marmicro.2021.101995

Vegetation history of SE Sicily from feudal land management to post-war agricultural industrialization

Author(s): Fabrizio Michelangeli, Federico Di Rita, Fabrizio Lirer, Carmine Lubritto, Luca Giorgio Bellucci, Antonio Cascella, Sergio Bonomo, Giulia Margaritelli, Donatella Magri
Published in: Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 2022, ISSN 0034-6667
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2021.104547

High resolution paleo-environmental changes during the Sapropel 1 in the North Ionian Sea, central Mediterranean

Author(s): Helena Checa, Giulia Margaritelli, Leopoldo D Pena, Jaime Frigola, Isabel Cacho, Roberto Rettori, Fabrizio Lirer
Published in: The Holocene, Issue 30/11, 2020, Page(s) 1504-1515, ISSN 0959-6836
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/0959683620941095

Climatic variability over the last 3000 years in the central - western Mediterranean Sea (Menorca Basin) detected by planktonic foraminifera and stable isotope records

Author(s): G. Margaritelli, M. Cisneros, I. Cacho, L. Capotondi, M. Vallefuoco, R. Rettori, F. Lirer
Published in: Global and Planetary Change, Issue 169, 2018, Page(s) 179-187, ISSN 0921-8181
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2018.07.012

Deep-water formation variability in the north-western Mediterranean Sea during the last 2500 yr: A proxy validation with present-day data

Author(s): Mercè Cisneros, Isabel Cacho, Jaime Frigola, Anna Sanchez-Vidal, Antoni Calafat, Rut Pedrosa-Pàmies, Aitor Rumín-Caparrós, Miquel Canals
Published in: Global and Planetary Change, Issue 177, 2019, Page(s) 56-68, ISSN 0921-8181
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2019.03.012

Holocene hydrography evolution in the Alboran Sea: a multi-record and multi-proxy comparison

Author(s): Albert Català, Isabel Cacho, Jaime Frigola, Leopoldo D. Pena, Fabrizio Lirer
Published in: Climate of the Past, Issue 15/3, 2019, Page(s) 927-942, ISSN 1814-9332
Publisher: Copernicus Publications
DOI: 10.5194/cp-15-927-2019

Climate variability of the last ~2700 years in the Southern Adriatic Sea: Coccolithophore evidences

Author(s): Antonio Cascella, Sergio Bonomo, Bassem Jalali, Marie-Alexandrine Sicre, Nicola Pelosi, Sabine Schmidt, Fabrizio Lirer
Published in: The Holocene, 2019, Page(s) 095968361986560, ISSN 0959-6836
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/0959683619865600

Changes in western Mediterranean thermohaline circulation in association with a deglacial Organic Rich Layer formation in the Alboran Sea

Author(s): José N. Pérez-Asensio, Jaime Frigola, Leopoldo D. Pena, Francisco J. Sierro, María Isabel Reguera, Francisco J. Rodríguez-Tovar, Javier Dorador, Alessandra Asioli, Jannis Kuhlmann, Katrin Huhn, Isabel Cacho
Published in: Quaternary Science Reviews, Issue 228, 2020, Page(s) 106075, ISSN 0277-3791
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2019.106075

The Late Holocene tephra record of the central Mediterranean Sea: Mapping occurrences and new potential isochrons for the 4.4–2.0 ka time interval

Author(s): D. D. Insinga, P. Petrosino, I. Alberico, G. J. Lange, C. Lubritto, F. Molisso, M. Sacchi, R. Sulpizio, J. Wu, F. Lirer
Published in: Journal of Quaternary Science, 2019, ISSN 0267-8179
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
DOI: 10.1002/jqs.3154

Climate evolution in the Adriatic Sea across the last deglaciation: A multiproxy approach combining biomarkers and calcareous plankton

Author(s): Pietro Bazzicalupo, Marie Alexandrine Sicre, Helena Checa, Patrizia Maiorano, Giulia Margaritelli, Vincent Klein, Leopoldo David Pena, Isabel Cacho, Jaime Frigola, Sergio Bonomo, Antonio Cascella, Fabrizio Lirer
Published in: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 2022, ISSN 0031-0182
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2022.111291

Rare earth elements and Nd isotopes as tracers of modern ocean circulation in the central Mediterranean Sea

Author(s): Ester Garcia-Solsona, Leopoldo D. Pena, Eduardo Paredes, José N. Pérez-Asensio, Lucía Quirós-Collazos, Fabrizio Lirer, Isabel Cacho
Published in: Progress in Oceanography, Issue 185, 2020, Page(s) 102340, ISSN 0079-6611
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.pocean.2020.102340

Three Millennia of Vegetation, Land-Use, and Climate Change in SE Sicily

Author(s): Fabrizio Michelangeli, Federico Di Rita, Alessandra Celant, Nadine Tisnérat-Laborde, Fabrizio Lirer, Donatella Magri
Published in: Forests, 2022, ISSN 1999-4907
Publisher: MDPI Open Access Publishing
DOI: 10.3390/f13010102

Eastern Mediterranean water outflow during the Younger Dryas was twice that of the present day

Author(s): Sergio Trias-Navarro, Leopoldo D. Pena, Maria De la Fuente, Eduardo Paredes, Ester Garcia-Solsona, Jaime Frigola, Albert Català, Antonio Caruso, Fabrizio Lirer, Negar Haghipour, José Pérez-Asensio, Isabel Cacho
Published in: Comunications Earth & Environment, 2023, ISSN 2662-4435
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1038/s43247-023-00812-7

The response of calcareous plankton to the Sapropel S1 interval in North Ionian Sea

Author(s): Antonio Cascella, Sergio Bonomo, Fabrizio Lirer, Giulia Margaritelli, Helena Checa, Isabel Cacho, Leopoldo D. Pena, Jaime Frigola
Published in: Global and Planetary Change, Issue 205, 2021, Page(s) 103599, ISSN 0921-8181
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2021.103599

Thesis and dissertations (4)

WATER MASSES EXCHANGE THROUGH THE STRAIT OF SICILY SINCE THE LAST DEGLACIATION

Author(s): Segio Trias-Navarro
Published in: PhD Thesis, 2023
Publisher: Universitat de Barcelona

Characterizing deep-ocean circulation changes during the last Sapropel in the central Mediterranean Sea using novel micro-paleontological and geochemical tools

Author(s): Helena Checa Sánchez
Published in: PhD Thesis, 2020
Publisher: Università degli Studi di Perugia

Holocene Climate variability in the Western Mediterranean Sea: an integrated oceanic and atmospheric perspective

Author(s): Albert Català i Caparrós
Published in: PhD Thesis, 2023
Publisher: Universitat de Barcelona

Reconstrucció Climàtica a la Mediterrànea Occidental Durant els darrers tres mil anys: Sediments marins i estalagmites

Author(s): Mercè Cisneros Bermejo
Published in: PhD Thesis, 2019
Publisher: Universitat de Barcelona

Conference proceedings (20)

Deglacial Mediterranean-basins link: old carbon-enriched eastern waters and collateral consequences for western aragonite mounds growth

Author(s): M. de la Fuente, M. Selvaggi Mallorquí, L. Skinner, C. Lo Iacono, G. Corbera, A. Sadekov, P. Scott, P. Zhang, H. Cheng, P. Rafter, N. Haghipour, L. Pena, A. Català, I. Cacho
Published in: INQUA Congress, Roma 2023, 2023
Publisher: International Union for Quaternary Research

The Holocene expression in humidity and sea surface temperatures in the western Mediterranean Sea

Author(s): A. Català, L.D. Pena, E. Garcia-Solsona, E. Paredes, J. Frigola, A. Sanchez-Vidal, A. Calafat, I. Cacho
Published in: INQUA Congress, Roma 2023, 2023
Publisher: International Union for Quaternary Research

Present and past variability of the Mediterranean Outflow Water using Nd isotopes

Author(s): S. Campderrós, L. D. Pena, I. Cacho, J. Frigola, E. Garcia-Solsona, E. Paredes.
Published in: INQUA Congress, Roma 2023, 2023
Publisher: International Union for Quaternary Research

Rapid response of the Adriatic convection cell during the Sapropel S1: New insights from Nd isotopes

Author(s): L. D. Pena, H. Checa, G. Margaritelli, J. N. Pérez-Asensio, Frigola, J., A. Català, E. Garcia-Solsona, E. Paredes, R. Rettori, F. Lirer, I. Cacho
Published in: INQUA Congress, Roma 2023, 2023
Publisher: International Union for Quaternary Research

Collapse of the Mediterranean Thermohaline Circulation during the Sapropel S1: New insights from Nd isotopes

Author(s): Pena L. D., Checa H., Margaritelli G., Pérez-Asensio J. N., Català A., García-Solsona E., Paredes E., Rettori R., Lirer F.
Published in: 14th International Conference on Paleoceanography, Bergen 2022, 2022
Publisher: University of Bergen

A sedimentological insight into the deglacial reorganization of the Mediterranean thermohaline circulation

Author(s): Frigola J., Martín C., Merchán A., Pena L. D., Checa H., Margaritelli G., Pérez-Asensio J.N., Català A., Lirer F., Cacho I.
Published in: 14th International Conference on Paleoceanography, Bergen 2022, 2022
Publisher: University of Bergen

Last deglacial reorganization of the western Mediterranean thermohaline circulation: evidences from sedimentological and Nd isotopes proxies

Author(s): J. Frigola, L. D. Pena, S. Campderrós, A. Català, M. de la Fuente, E. García-Solsona, C. Martin, A. Merchán, E. Paredes, M. Selvaggi, J. Torner, S. Trias-Navarro, G. Margaritelli, J. N. Pérez-Asensio, F. Lirer, I. Cacho
Published in: INQUA Congress, Roma 2023, 2023
Publisher: International Union for Quaternary Research

Holocene humidity changes in southern Iberia inferred from the geochemical signature of marine sediments

Author(s): Català A., Pena L. D., Garcia-Solsona E., Paredes E., Frigola J., Sanchez-Vidal A., Calafat A., Cacho I.
Published in: 14th International Conference on Paleoceanography, Bergen 2022, 2022
Publisher: University of Bergen

MAGY project: MAllorca hydroloGY over the last few centuries. Instrumental validation of speleothem archives

Author(s): J. Torner, I. Cacho, A. Català, M. Cisneros, J. J. Fornós, A. Moreno, I. Bladé, H. Cheng, R.L. Edwards, H. Stoll
Published in: INQUA Congress, Roma 2023, 2023
Publisher: International Union for Quaternary Research

Deglacial-Holocene Pulses of Old Carbon-Enriched Mediterranean Water Masses: Implications for Aragonite Mounds Growth and Global Carbon Cycle

Author(s): de la Fuente M., Selvaggi M., Lo Iacono C., Skinner L., Sadekov A., Scott P., Zhang P., Cheng H., Rafter P., Haghipour N., Paredes E., Pena L. D., Català A., Cacho I.
Published in: 14th International Conference on Paleoceanography, Bergen 2022, 2022
Publisher: University of Bergen

Water export changes through the Strait of Sicily during the last deglacial period

Author(s): Trias-Navarro S., Pena L., De La Fuente M., Paredes E., Garcia-Solsona E., Frigola J., Català A., Caruso A., Lirer F., Haghipour N., Pérez-Asensio J. N., Cacho I.
Published in: 14th International Conference on Paleoceanography, Bergen 2022, 2022
Publisher: University of Bergen

The last deglaciation in the SW Iberian margin: changes in the Atlantic surface and Mediterranean bottom waters

Author(s): J. P. Tarruella, A. Català, I. Cacho, T. M. Béjard and F. Sierro
Published in: INQUA Congress, Roma 2023, 2023
Publisher: International Union for Quaternary Research

New Mediterranean speleothem records for glacial Terminations IV and III

Author(s): Torner J., Cacho I., Stoll H., Moreno A., Cheng H., Edwards R. L.
Published in: 14th International Conference on Paleoceanography, Bergen 2022, 2022
Publisher: University of Bergen

Isotope ratio measurements of small Nd, Sr and Pb amounts with a Plasma 3 MC-ICPMS

Author(s): Paredes, E., L. D. Pena, L.D., and Cacho, I.
Published in: Goldschmidt Conference, Barcelona 2019, 2019
Publisher: Geochemical Society

Mediterranean thermohaline circulation variability from the last deglaciation associated with changes in the eastern Mediterranean water outflow

Author(s): S. Trias-Navarro, L. D. Pena, M. de la Fuente, E. Paredes, E. Garcia-Solsona, J. Frigola, A. Català, F. Lirer, N. Haghipour, J. N. Pérez-Asensio, I. Cacho
Published in: INQUA Congress, Roma 2023, 2023
Publisher: International Union for Quaternary Research

Unveiling the variation in intermediate water mass circulation and its potential effects on Tunisian cold-water coral mound development during the last glacial cycle

Author(s): G. Corbera, C. Lo Iacono, A. Tejero, M. de la fuente, E. Garcia-Solsona, E. Paredes, L. D. Pena, I. Cacho
Published in: INQUA Congress, Roma 2023, 2023
Publisher: International Union for Quaternary Research

Deglacial and Holocene changes in Mediterranean Thermohaline Circulation: A joint perspective from Eastern and Western basins

Author(s): I. Cacho, A. Català, L. D. Pena, J. Frigola, S. Campderrós, M. Selvaggi, C. Martin, S. Trias, M. de la Fuente, G. Margaritelli, J. N. Pérez-Asensio, F. Lirer
Published in: INQUA Congress, Roma 2023, 2023
Publisher: International Union for Quaternary Research

Deglacial and Holocene changes in Mediterranean Thermohaline Circulation: A joint perspective from Eastern and Western basins

Author(s): Cacho I., Català A., Pena L. D., Frigola J., Campderrós S., Inglavaga R., Martin C., Trias S., Checa H., de la Fuente M., Margaritelli G., Pérez-Asensio J. N., Lirer F.
Published in: 14th International Conference on Paleoceanography, Bergen 2022, 2022
Publisher: University of Bergen

Environmental conditions controlling Cold-water corals occurrence in western Melilla (western Mediterranean) since the last deglaciation

Author(s): M. Selvaggi, M. de la Fuente, C. Lo Iacono, N. Haghipour, A. Català, J. N. Pérez-Asensio, I. Cacho
Published in: INQUA Congress, Roma 2023, 2023
Publisher: International Union for Quaternary Research

Mediterranean Overflow Water temperature and salinity trends over the last 50 ka

Author(s): Tarruella J. P., Cacho I., Català A., Béjard T. M., Sierro F. J.
Published in: 14th International Conference on Paleoceanography, Bergen 2022, 2022
Publisher: University of Bergen