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The University of Maine

Earth Science Faculty Scholarship

2004

Ice core

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Sea Level Pressure Variability Over The Southern Indian Ocean Inferred From A Glaciochemical Record In Princess Elizabeth Land, East Antarctica, Cunde Xiao, Paul Andrew Mayewski, Dahe Qin, Zhongqin Li, Mingjun Zhang, Yuping Yan Aug 2004

Sea Level Pressure Variability Over The Southern Indian Ocean Inferred From A Glaciochemical Record In Princess Elizabeth Land, East Antarctica, Cunde Xiao, Paul Andrew Mayewski, Dahe Qin, Zhongqin Li, Mingjun Zhang, Yuping Yan

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A 250-year, high-resolution, multivariate ice core record from LGB65 (70degrees50'07"S, 77degrees04'29"E; 1850 m asl), Princess Elizabeth Land (PEL), is used to investigate sea level pressure (SLP) variability over the southern Indian Ocean (SIO). Empirical orthogonal function (EOF) analysis reveals that the first EOF (EOF1) of the glaciochemical record from LGB65 represents most of the variability in sea salt throughout the 250-year record. EOF1 is negatively correlated (95% confidence level and higher) to instrumental mean sea level pressure (MSLP) at Kerguelen and New Amsterdam islands, SIO. On the basis of comparison with NCEP/NCAR reanalysis, strong correlations were found between sea-salt variations …