scholarly journals Use of seabirds to monitor sea-surface temperatures and to validate satellite remote-sensing measurements in the Southern Ocean

1995 ◽  
Vol 126 ◽  
pp. 299-303 ◽  
Author(s):  
H Weimerskirch ◽  
RP Wilson ◽  
C Guinet ◽  
M Koudil
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Southern Ocean ◽  
Satellite Remote Sensing ◽  
Sea Surface ◽  
Sea Surface Temperatures ◽  
Surface Temperatures

Remote sensing of the Indo-Pacific region: ocean colour, sea level, winds and sea surface temperatures

2004 ◽  
Vol 25 (7-8) ◽  
pp. 1423-1435 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raghu Murtugudde ◽  
Liping Wang ◽  
Eric Hackert ◽  
James Beauchamp ◽  
James Christian ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Sea Level ◽  
Sea Surface ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Sea Surface Temperatures ◽  
Ocean Colour ◽  
Surface Temperatures

scholarly journals Warm Middle Jurassic–Early Cretaceous high-latitude sea-surface temperatures from the Southern Ocean

2012 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 215-226 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. C. Jenkyns ◽  
L. Schouten-Huibers ◽  
S. Schouten ◽  
J. S. Sinninghe Damsté
Keyword(s):  
Southern Ocean ◽  
Early Cretaceous ◽  
Middle Jurassic ◽  
Warming Trend ◽  
Upper Jurassic ◽  
Climatic Conditions ◽  
Sea Surface ◽  
Polar Regions ◽  
Sea Surface Temperatures ◽  
Surface Temperatures

Abstract. Although a division of the Phanerozoic climatic modes of the Earth into "greenhouse" and "icehouse" phases is widely accepted, whether or not polar ice developed during the relatively warm Jurassic and Cretaceous Periods is still under debate. In particular, there is a range of isotopic and biotic evidence that favours the concept of discrete "cold snaps", marked particularly by migration of certain biota towards lower latitudes. Extension of the use of the palaeotemperature proxy TEX86 back to the Middle Jurassic indicates that relatively warm sea-surface conditions (26–30 °C) existed from this interval (∼160 Ma) to the Early Cretaceous (∼115 Ma) in the Southern Ocean, with a general warming trend through the Late Jurassic followed by a general cooling trend through the Early Cretaceous. The lowest sea-surface temperatures are recorded from around the Callovian–Oxfordian boundary, an interval identified in Europe as relatively cool, but do not fall below 25 °C. The early Aptian Oceanic Anoxic Event, identified on the basis of published biostratigraphy, total organic carbon and carbon-isotope stratigraphy, records an interval with the lowest, albeit fluctuating Early Cretaceous palaeotemperatures (∼26 °C), recalling similar phenomena recorded from Europe and the tropical Pacific Ocean. Extant belemnite δ18O data, assuming an isotopic composition of waters inhabited by these fossils of −1‰ SMOW, give palaeotemperatures throughout the Upper Jurassic–Lower Cretaceous interval that are consistently lower by ∼14 °C than does TEX86 and the molluscs likely record conditions below the thermocline. The long-term, warm climatic conditions indicated by the TEX86 data would only be compatible with the existence of continental ice if appreciable areas of high altitude existed on Antarctica, and/or in other polar regions, during the Mesozoic Era.

Revised Southern Ocean sea surface temperatures over the last 180 ka

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Chandler ◽  
Petra Langebroek
Keyword(s):  
Southern Ocean ◽  
Sea Level ◽  
Climate Model ◽  
Ice Sheet ◽  
Sea Surface ◽  
Sea Surface Temperatures ◽  
Last Interglacial ◽  
Antarctic Ice Sheet ◽  
Surface Temperatures ◽  
Temperature Reconstructions

<p>Proxy records and climate models suggest that the Last Interglacial (LIG, ~130 to 115 thousand years before present) was characterised by high-latitude air and sea surface temperatures (SSTs) slightly warmer than present, and by mean global sea level a few metres higher. Therefore, the LIG is widely used as an analogue for near-future oceanographic/climatic conditions. Of particular interest is the Antarctic Ice Sheet’s contribution to rapid sea level rise and to Southern Ocean surface freshening, in response to warming. In the Southern Ocean, existing LIG temperature reconstructions suffer from very high variance amongst a low number of individual records. Recent syntheses have focused on the LIG climatic optimum, but conditions during the penultimate glacial are also important for forcing transient climate or Antarctic Ice Sheet simulations. Here we use databases of modern core-top sediments to evaluate the strengths of SST proxies available in the Southern Ocean, and consider their likely sources of bias and variance. By selecting only those paleo-temperature reconstructions which we believe are reliable in this region, we then compile a Southern Ocean SST synthesis covering the penultimate glacial and the LIG. This longer temperature time series can be used as a basis for LIG ice sheet simulations or for climate model development.  </p>

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