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Signals of Antarctic Circum-polar Wave over the Southern Indian Ocean as recorded in an Antarctica ice core

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Oxygen stable isotopic and ionic records, covering a period of 1745–1996, are recovered in DT001 ice core drilled in Princess Elizabeth Land, East Antarctica. Using empirical orthogonal function (EOF) analysis of the annually resolved glaciochemical time series, we find the first EOF (EOF1) represents sea-salt aerosols and is the proxy of sea level pressure (SLP) over a quasi-stationary low in the Southern Indian Ocean (SIO). δ18O represents the sea surface temperature (SST) of the same ocean area. In the past two decades, four climatic waves as represented by SLP and SST proxies are found in the DT001 ice core, which in coincident with four Antarctic Circum-polar Waves (ACW) as revealed by NCEP/NCAR reanalysis. The phase difference between SST and SLP in the ice core is also coincident with that in ACW. Both ice-core record and reanalysis suggest that there were no signals of ACW during 1958–1980, none during the overall recording period between 1745–1996, as there is no regular phase difference between SST and SLP. The ACW signal after early 1980s is probably attributable to the climate shift occurring over Antarctic Peninsula-Drake Passage region.

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  1. Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, 100081, Beijing, China

    Cunde Xiao, Yanjie Cheng, Longhua Lu & Xiuji Zhou

  2. Key Laboratory of Ice Core and Cold Regions Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 730000, Lanzhou, China

    Cunde Xiao, Jiawen Ren, Zhongqin Li & Dahe Qin

  3. Department of Physics and Atmospheric Science, Dalhousie University, B3H 3J5, Halifax, Canada

    Yanjie Cheng

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Xiao, C., Cheng, Y., Ren, J. et al. Signals of Antarctic Circum-polar Wave over the Southern Indian Ocean as recorded in an Antarctica ice core. Chin.Sci.Bull. 50, 347–355 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02897576

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