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Antarctic and Southern Ocean influences on Late Pliocene global cooling

Overview of attention for article published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, April 2012
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Title
Antarctic and Southern Ocean influences on Late Pliocene global cooling
Published in
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, April 2012
DOI 10.1073/pnas.1112248109
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Authors

Robert McKay, Tim Naish, Lionel Carter, Christina Riesselman, Robert Dunbar, Charlotte Sjunneskog, Diane Winter, Francesca Sangiorgi, Courtney Warren, Mark Pagani, Stefan Schouten, Veronica Willmott, Richard Levy, Robert DeConto, Ross D. Powell

Abstract

The influence of Antarctica and the Southern Ocean on Late Pliocene global climate reconstructions has remained ambiguous due to a lack of well-dated Antarctic-proximal, paleoenvironmental records. Here we present ice sheet, sea-surface temperature, and sea ice reconstructions from the ANDRILL AND-1B sediment core recovered from beneath the Ross Ice Shelf. We provide evidence for a major expansion of an ice sheet in the Ross Sea that began at ∼3.3 Ma, followed by a coastal sea surface temperature cooling of ∼2.5 °C, a stepwise expansion of sea ice, and polynya-style deep mixing in the Ross Sea between 3.3 and 2.5 Ma. The intensification of Antarctic cooling resulted in strengthened westerly winds and invigorated ocean circulation. The associated northward migration of Southern Ocean fronts has been linked with reduced Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation by restricting surface water connectivity between the ocean basins, with implications for heat transport to the high latitudes of the North Atlantic. While our results do not exclude low-latitude mechanisms as drivers for Pliocene cooling, they indicate an additional role played by southern high-latitude cooling during development of the bipolar world.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 4 2%
Australia 2 <1%
United Kingdom 2 <1%
Netherlands 1 <1%
Brazil 1 <1%
Germany 1 <1%
South Africa 1 <1%
Spain 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 243 95%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 71 28%
Researcher 50 19%
Student > Master 27 11%
Student > Bachelor 17 7%
Professor 14 5%
Other 40 16%
Unknown 38 15%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Earth and Planetary Sciences 154 60%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 23 9%
Environmental Science 15 6%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 4 2%
Chemistry 4 2%
Other 9 4%
Unknown 48 19%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 210. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 27 March 2021.
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