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In recent years the term 'enhanced greenhouse effect' has become well known in modern society and yet aspects of this possible 'future climate' are poorly understood. The characteristics of the geological record provide a basis to understand this possible future climate through the examination of alternating glacial (cold) and interglacial (warm) stages. Understanding the variability of sea-surface temperature and biological processes in the water column provides insight into general circulation of present and paleo-ocean currents. The core obtained offshore from Sumatra (BAR9043, 104.0316E, 5.82S) highlights an upwelling signal at 14,000 yrs BP that disrupts the warm stratified water column, which was a feature between Marine Isotope Stage (MIS) 3 to present. This upwelling is timed to a regional pattern of an intensified Australasian Monsoon.Lineage
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CreditThe Australian National University (ANU)
Funded by The National Oceans Office (NOO)
Funded by The Australian Research Council (ARC)
Funded by The French Polar Institute
Funded by The Australian Institute of Nuclear Science Engineering (AINSE)
Funded by The Murray Darling Basin Commission
To investigate general palaeoceanographic conditions in the north-eastern Indian Ocean. This study was part of a larger undertaking to define the history of the Leeuwin Current to the West and South of Australia.
Issued: 22 08 2007
Data time period: 1994-01-01 to 1994-01-01
text: westlimit=104; southlimit=-6; eastlimit=104.5; northlimit=-5.5
text: uplimit=2034; downlimit=2034
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(ANU_Spooner_BAR9403_4_data.xls)
Core data - Leeuwin Current (aodn:bluenet_datasets_leeuwin_current)
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http://geoserver-123.aodn.org.au/geoserver/wms
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