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El Niño variability off Peru during the last 20,000 years

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ID23318795
AuthorsBert Rein (Institut für Geowissenschaften Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz Mainz Germany), Andreas Lückge (0000-0002-3269-7063, Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe Hannover Germany), Lutz Reinhardt (0000-0002-3790-958X, Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe Hannover Germany), Frank Sirocko (0000-0002-3131-0613, Institut für Geowissenschaften Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz Mainz Germany), Anja Wolf (Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe Hannover Germany), Wolf‐Christian Dullo (0000-0002-8313-7701, IFM‐GEOMAR Kiel Germany)
Year2005
Volume20
Issue4
Publication date2005-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePaleoceanography (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0883-8305 • E-ISSN: 1944-9186
PublisherAmerican Geophysical Union (AGU) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1029/2004pa001099
OpenAlexW2131360976
LanguageEN
Citations received96
References cited76

Here we present a high‐resolution marine sediment record from the El Niño region off the coast of Peru spanning the last 20,000 years. Sea surface temperature, photosynthetic pigments, and a lithic proxy for El Niño flood events on the continent are used as paleo–El Niño–Southern Oscillation proxy data. The onset of stronger El Niño activity in Peru started around 17,000 calibrated years before the present, which is later than modeling experiments show but contemporaneous with the Heinrich event 1. Maximum El Niño activity occurred during the early and late Holocene, especially during the second and third millennium B.P. The recurrence period of very strong El Niño events is 60–80 years. El Niño events were weak before and during the beginning of the Younger Dryas, during the middle of the Holocene, and during medieval times. The strength of El Niño flood events during the last millennium has positive and negative relationships to global and Northern Hemisphere temperature reconstructions.

Archaeology · Climatology · El Niño Southern Oscillation · Flood myth · Geography · Hiatus · Holocene · Northern Hemisphere · Period (music) · Physical geography · Sea surface temperature · Younger Dryas · Geological formations and processes · Geology · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research · Oceanography · Paleontology · Tree-ring climate responses

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