Tropical rainfall over the last two millennia: evidence for a low-latitude 
hydrologic seesaw

Lechleitner, F. A.; Breitenbach, S. F. M.; Rehfeld, K.; Ridley, H. E.; Asmerom, Y.; Prufer, K. M.; Marwan, Norbert; Goswami, Bedartha; Kennett, D. J.; Aquino, V. V.; Polyak, V.; Haug, G. H.; Eglinton, T. I.; Baldini, J. U. L.

doi:10.1038/srep45809

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Tropical rainfall over the last two millennia: evidence for a low-latitude hydrologic seesaw

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Lechleitner, F. A.
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Breitenbach, S. F. M.
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Rehfeld, K.
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Ridley, H. E.
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Asmerom, Y.
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Prufer, K. M.
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Marwan, Norbert
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Goswami, Bedartha
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Kennett, D. J.
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Aquino, V. V.
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Polyak, V.
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Haug, G. H.
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Eglinton, T. I.
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Baldini, J. U. L.
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Lechleitner, F. A., Breitenbach, S. F. M., Rehfeld, K., Ridley, H. E., Asmerom, Y., Prufer, K. M., Marwan, N., Goswami, B., Kennett, D. J., Aquino, V. V., Polyak, V., Haug, G. H., Eglinton, T. I., Baldini, J. U. L. (2017): Tropical rainfall over the last two millennia: evidence for a low-latitude hydrologic seesaw. - Scientific Reports, 7, 45809.
https://doi.org/10.1038/srep45809

Zitierlink: https://publications.pik-potsdam.de/pubman/item/item_21676

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The presence of a low- to mid-latitude interhemispheric hydrologic seesaw is apparent over orbital and glacial-interglacial timescales, but its existence over the most recent past remains unclear. Here we investigate, based on climate proxy reconstructions from both hemispheres, the inter-hemispherical phasing of the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) and the low- to mid-latitude teleconnections in the Northern Hemisphere over the past 2000 years. A clear feature is a persistent southward shift of the ITCZ during the Little Ice Age until the beginning of the 19th Century. Strong covariation between our new composite ITCZ-stack and North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) records reveals a tight coupling between these two synoptic weather and climate phenomena over decadal-to-centennial timescales. This relationship becomes most apparent when comparing two precisely dated, high-resolution paleorainfall records from Belize and Scotland, indicating that the low- to mid-latitude teleconnection was also active over annual-decadal timescales. It is likely a combination of external forcing, i.e., solar and volcanic, and internal feedbacks, that drives the synchronous ITCZ and NAO shifts via energy flux perturbations in the tropics.