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To: Valerie.Masson@cea.fr, Jonathan Overpeck <jto@u.arizona.edu>
Subject: Re: Thompson et al, 2006 paper to include
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 09:52:02 +0200
Cc: Olga Solomina <olgasolomina@yandex.ru>, Keith Briffa <k.briffa@uea.ac.uk>,
Ricardo Villalba <ricardo@lab.cricyt.edu.ar>, Val�rie Masson-Delmotte
<Valerie.Masson@cea.fr>, Oyvind.Paasche@bjerknes.uib.no
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Hi Olga,
I agree with Valerie that the ice core evidence
is ambiguous. I would personally place more
weight on the alkenone data, which is a
reasonable well calibrated SST proxy. Foraminifer
transfer function based SSTs and some Mg/Ca
results that are available suggest a similar
picture as far as I know. Of course it is
possible and plausible that the tropical oceans
are behaving in a non consistent manner and not
all areas are showing the same signal, but a
sizeable portion appear to do so in order to
conclude as we do in the chapter in my opinion.
Some signals may be due to changes in in trade
wind induced coastal upwelling strength, but
there are enough cores with alkenone data outside
of these areas. If we were to say more about the
uncertainties it may be the fact that proxies are
seasonally skewed.
Cheers,
Eystein
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