Sustained North Atlantic warming drove anomalously intense MIS 11c interglacial

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Abstract

The Marine Isotope Stage (MIS) 11c interglacial and its preceding glacial termination represent an enigmatically intense climate response to relatively weak insolation forcing. So far, a lack of radiometric age control has confounded a detailed assessment of the insolation-climate relationship during this period. Here, we present 230Th-dated speleothem proxy data from northern Italy and compare them with palaeoclimate records from the North Atlantic region. We find that interglacial conditions started in subtropical to middle latitudes at 423.1 ± 1.3 thousand years (kyr) before present, during a first weak insolation maximum, whereas northern high latitudes remained glaciated (sea level ~ 40 m below present). Some 14.5 ± 2.8 kyr after this early subtropical onset, peak interglacial conditions were reached globally, with sea level 6–13 m above present, despite weak insolation forcing. We attribute this remarkably intense climate response to an exceptionally long (~15 kyr) episode of intense poleward heat flux transport prior to the MIS 11c optimum.

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Hu, H. M., Marino, G., Pérez-Mejías, C., Spötl, C., Yokoyama, Y., Yu, J., … Shen, C. C. (2024). Sustained North Atlantic warming drove anomalously intense MIS 11c interglacial. Nature Communications, 15(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-50207-1

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