A rainy northern Atacama Desert during the last interglacial

Details A rainy northern Atacama Desert during the last interglacial A rainy northern Atacama Desert during the last interglacial

Dec 2010

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010georl..3723612c&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 37, Issue 23, CiteID L23612

Physics

Biogeosciences: Paleoclimatology And Paleoceanography (3344, 4900), Paleoceanography: El Nino (4522), Paleoceanography: Geochemical Tracers, Paleoceanography: Interglacial, Paleoceanography: Upwelling (4279)

Scientific paper

The response of the northern extension of the Atacama Desert and the Peruvian upwelling system to climate conditions during the Last Interglacial ([LIG]; ˜125kyr ago) was tracked using molecular fossils of marine and terrestrial organisms preserved in Peruvian shelf sediments. High resolution records of ODP Site 1229 (past 145 kyr) indicated that warmer and wetter conditions (rainfall and river runoff) along the coast occurred during the LIG, when global temperatures were comparable or even higher than today. A ˜3°C warming of surface waters, enhanced water column stratification, rainfall and river runoff were associated with low primary productivity and a ˜1.5°C decrease in the temperature gradient across the Equatorial Pacific (i.e., weak Walker circulation), suggesting a prolonged El Niño-like response of the tropical Pacific during the LIG. In contrast, the late Holocene ([LH] last 3 kyr) was characterized by colder surface waters, higher export and primary productivity, and a drier climate.

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