Amazonian rain

Nov 1, 2016

A new study published in the online journal Scientific Reports shows how sea surface temperature changes over the equatorial Pacific triggered increased precipitation over western Amazonia about 18,000 years ago. For their study first author Yancheng Zhang from MARUM and his colleagues combined various climatic records of the past with computational models.

Publikation:
Yancheng Zhang, Xu Zhang, Cristiano M. Chiessi, Stefan Mulitza, Xiao Zhang, Gerrit Lohmann, Matthias Prange, Hermann Behling, Matthias Zabel, Aline Govin, André O. Sawakuchi, Francisco W. Cruz & Gerold Wefer
Equatorial Pacific forcing of western Amazonian precipitation during Heinrich Stadial 1

Scientific Reports 6, Article number: 35866 (2016)
doi:10.1038/srep35866