Mid-Holocene climate reconstruction for eastern South America
Authors:
- L. F. PradoLPL. F. Prado
- I. WainerIWI. Wainer
- C. M. ChiessiCCC. M. Chiessi
- M.-P. LedruMLM.-P. Ledru
- B. TurcqBTB. Turcq
Preprint
- 29 November 2012
- preprint
- Published by Copernicus GmbH in EGUsphere
Abstract
The Mid-Holocene (6 ka BP) is a key period to the study of climate, since it presented lower than present incoming summer insolation in the Southern Hemisphere, and the opposite in the Northern Hemisphere. This happened due to a different than present configuration of the orbital parameters. To investigate the effects of insolation on the Mid-Holocene climate, some global and regional multiproxy palaeodata compilations have been elaborated. However, few global studies have focused on the Southern Hemisphere, and none of the regional ones have characterized the Mid-Holocene climate in South America through a multiproxy approach. Here we present the first multiproxy compilation to the Mid-Holocene climate in eastern South America. We have compiled 120 palaeoclimatological data, published in 84 different papers. The palaeodata analyzed suggest a water deficit scenario in great part of eastern South America during Mid-Holocene, except for Northeastern Brazil. Nonetheless, further sampling is mandatory in South America and in the adjacent ocean basins.Keywords
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- Published version: Climate of the Past, 9 (5), 2117.
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