Arz, HW, Lamy, F, Pätzold, J, Müller, PJ and Prins, MA (2003) Mediterranean Moisture Source for an Early-Holocene Humid Period in the Northern Red Sea. Science, 300(5616). 118-121. doi:10.1126/science.1080325 
Abstract
Paleosalinity and terrigenous sediment input changes reconstructed on two sediment cores from the northernmost Red Sea were used to infer hydrological changes at the southern margin of the Mediterranean climate zone during theHolocene. Between approximately 9.25 and 7.25 thousand years ago, about 3� reduced surface water salinities and enhanced .uvial sediment input suggest substantially higher rainfall and freshwater runoff, which thereafter decreasedto modern values. The northern Red Sea humid interval is best explained by enhancement and southward extension of rainfall from Mediterranean sources, possibly involving strengthened early-Holocene Arctic Oscillation patterns and a regional monsoon-type circulation induced by increased land-sea temperature contrasts. We conclude that Afro-Asian monsoonal rains did not cross the subtropical desert zone during the early to mid-Holocene.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | PANGAEA reference ID: 24228 Serial: RCOM0056 |
| Subjects: | MARUM MARUM > MARUM OC - Ocean and Climate peer reviewed publications www.marum.de |
| Divisions: | MARUM |
| Depositing User: | Eprints Administrator |
| Date Deposited: | 25 Jul 2013 11:48 |
| Last Modified: | 25 Jul 2013 11:48 |
| URI: | http://publications.marum.de/id/eprint/1875 |
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