Depth Fluctuations of Mediterranean Outflow Water Along Its Northward Propagation During the Late Pleistocene

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中文题名晚更新世期间地中海外流水向北传播的深度波动
作者Xinyang Chen1;Jiawang Wu1;Xiaolei Pang2;Haowen Dang3;Lifeng Zhong1;Jimin Yu4;Christophe Colin5;Zhifei Liu3;Gert J. deLange6;Stefanie Kaboth‐Bahr7;Chuang Xuan8;Hisashi Ikeda9;Timothy D. Herbert10;Huai‐Hsuan May Huang11;Carlos A. Alvarez Zarikian12;Fátima F. G. Abrantes13;David A. Hodell14
作者单位1School of Marine Sciences Sun Yat‐Sen University and Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai) Zhuhai China;2School of Ocean Sciences China University of Geosciences (Beijing) Beijing China;3State Key Laboratory of Marine Geology Tongji University Shanghai China;4Laoshan Laboratory Qingdao China;5GEOPS CNRS Université Paris‐Saclay Orsay France;6Department of Earth Sciences Utrecht University Utrecht The Netherlands;7Institute of Geological Sciences Freie Universität Berlin Berlin Germany;8School of Ocean and Earth Science University of Southampton Southampton UK;9Geosphere Sciences Yamaguchi University Yamaguchi Japan;10Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences Brown University Providence RI USA;11Department of Geosciences Princeton University Princeton NJ USA;12International Ocean Discovery Program Texas A&M University College Station TX USA;13Portuguese Institute of the Sea and Atmosphere (IPMA) Lisbon Portugal;14Department of Earth Sciences University of Cambridge Cambridge UK
刊名Geophysical Research Letters
2025
52
No.14
摘要
Mediterranean Outflow Water (MOW) critically influences the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, yet its northward transport dynamics along the Iberian Margin remain unclear. Using terrigenous grain‐size sortable silt and benthic foraminiferal carbon isotopes from two depth‐strategic sites (U1389: 644 m vs. U1588: 1,339 m), we constrain MOW's northward depth fluctuations over the last 250 kyr. Results show that MOW progressively deepened from ∼100 to 60 ka, then stabilized—synchronized with the prevalence of millennial‐scale climate variability. During interglacials, MOW directly influenced U1588, while deepened below this site during glacials. Flow speed gradients between Sites U1389 and U1588 show pronounced precession cycles. At precession maxima—Northern Hemisphere summer insolation minima—when flow intensified, MOW underwent enhanced mixing and dilution during northward transport. This results from increased density contrasts between MOW and ambient waters, indicating deeper MOW penetration. We demonstrate precessional forcing on both the strength and depth of MOW's northward propagation.

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