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Barrows et al. 2000
Barrows, T.T., Juggins, S., De Deckker, P., Thiede, J. and Martinez, J.I. (2000). Sea-surface temperatures of the southwest Pacific Ocean during the Last Glacial Maximum. Paleoceanography 15: doi: 10.1029/1999PA900047. issn: 0883-8305.

The southwest Pacific Ocean covers a broad range of surface-water conditions ranging from warm, salty water in the subtropical East Australian Current to fresher, cold water in the Circumpolar Current. Using a new database of planktonic foraminifera assemblages (AUSMAT-F2), we demonstrate that the modern analog technique can be used to accurately reconstruct the magnitude of sea-surfacetemperature (SST) in this region. We apply this technique to data from 29 deep-sea cores along a meridional transect of the southwest Pacific Ocean to estimate the magnitude of SST cooling during the Last Glacial Maximum. We find minimal cooling in the tropics (0¿--2 ¿C), moderate cooling in the subtropical midlatitudes (2¿--6 ¿C), and maximum cooling to the southeast of New Zealand (6¿--10 ¿C). The magnitude of cooling at the sea surface from the tropics to the temperate latitudes is found to generally be less than cooling at the surface of adjacent land masses. ¿ 2000 American Geophysical Union

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Keywords
Marine Geology and Geophysics, Micropaleontology, Meteorology and Atmospheric Dynamics, Paleoclimatology, Oceanography, General, Paleoceanography, Information Related to Geographic Region, Pacific Ocean
Journal
Paleoceanography
Publisher
American Geophysical Union
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