Interglacial intensity in the North Atlantic over the last 800,000 years: investigating the complexity of the mid-Brunhes Event (MBE)

Candy, I.; McClymont, E.L.

doi:10.1002/jqs.2632

Interglacial intensity in the North Atlantic over the last 800,000 years: investigating the complexity of the mid-Brunhes Event (MBE)

Candy, I.; McClymont, E.L.

Authors

I. Candy

Professor Erin Mcclymont erin.mcclymont@durham.ac.uk
Professor

Abstract

The mid-Brunhes Event (MBE) represents a step-like increase, between Marine Isotope Stages (MIS) 13/11, in the intensity of interglacial warmth. A transect of palaeoclimatic records in the North Atlantic from 40°N to the Nordic Seas indicates strong differences in the expression of the MBE within this region. Between 40 and 56°N sea surface and air temperature records suggest that all interglacials of the past 800 000 years were characterized by similar levels of warmth, so there is no evidence for an MBE in these latitudes of the North Atlantic. North of 56°N there is increasing evidence for interglacials MIS 19–13 being cold relative to MIS 11–1. As most records of long-term interglacial diversity suggest the MBE is a global event the North Atlantic is clearly anomalous. Furthermore, the strong spatial difference in temperature conditions during interglacials MIS 19–13 in the North Atlantic means that the temperature gradient across this region would have been enhanced, in fact effectively doubled in magnitude, during this interval.

Citation

Candy, I., & McClymont, E. (2013). Interglacial intensity in the North Atlantic over the last 800,000 years: investigating the complexity of the mid-Brunhes Event (MBE). Journal of Quaternary Science, 28(4), 343-348. https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.2632

Journal Article Type	Article
Publication Date	May 21, 2013
Deposit Date	Feb 25, 2013
Publicly Available Date	Jan 21, 2015
Journal	Journal of Quaternary Science
Print ISSN	0267-8179
Electronic ISSN	1099-1417
Publisher	Wiley
Peer Reviewed	Peer Reviewed
Volume	28
Issue	4
Pages	343-348
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.2632
Keywords	Interglacial, Mid-Brunhes event (MBE), North Atlantic, Pleistocene, Temperature.

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This is the accepted version of the following article: Candy, I. and McClymont, E.L. (2013), Interglacial intensity in the North Atlantic over the last 800 000 years: investigating the complexity of the mid-Brunhes Event. Journal of Quaternary Science, 28 (4): 343-348, which has been published in final form at http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jqs.2632. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance With Wiley Terms and Conditions for self-archiving.