Mineral dust aerosol concentrations in the atmosphere varied greatly on glacial-interglacial timescales. The greatest changes in global dust activity occurred in response to changes in orbital parameters (which affect dust emission intensity through glacial activity) and the lifetime of dust in the atmosphere (caused by changes in the global hydrological cycle). Long-term changes in the surface dust deposition rate are registered in geological archives such as loess, peats, lakes, marine sediments, and ice. Data provided by these archives are crucial for guiding simulations of dust and for better understanding the natural global dust cycle. However, the methods employed to derive paleo-dust deposition rates differ markedly between archives and are subject to different sources of uncertainty. Here, we present Paleo±Dust, an updated compilation of bulk and <10μm paleo-dust deposition rates with quantitative 1σ uncertainties that are inter-comparable among archive types. Paleo±Dust incorporates a total of 285 pre-industrial Holocene (pi-HOL) and 209 Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) dust flux constraints from studies published until December 2022, including, for the first time, peat records. We also recalculate previously published dust fluxes to exclude data from the last deglaciation and thus obtain more representative constraints for the last pre-industrial interglacial and glacial end-member climate states. Based on Paleo±Dust, the global LGM:pi-HOL ratio of <10μm dust deposition rates is 3.1±0.7 (1σ). We expect Paleo±Dust to be of use for future paleoclimate dust studies and simulations using Earth system models of high to intermediate complexity. Paleo±Dust is publicly accessible at 10.1594/PANGAEA.962969 (Cosentino et al., 2024).

Cosentino, N., Torre, G., Lambert, F., Albani, S., De Vleeschouwer, F., Bory, A. (2024). Paleo±Dust: quantifying uncertainty in paleo-dust deposition across archive types. EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCE DATA, 16(2), 941-959 [10.5194/essd-16-941-2024].

Paleo±Dust: quantifying uncertainty in paleo-dust deposition across archive types

Albani, Samuel;
2024

Abstract

Mineral dust aerosol concentrations in the atmosphere varied greatly on glacial-interglacial timescales. The greatest changes in global dust activity occurred in response to changes in orbital parameters (which affect dust emission intensity through glacial activity) and the lifetime of dust in the atmosphere (caused by changes in the global hydrological cycle). Long-term changes in the surface dust deposition rate are registered in geological archives such as loess, peats, lakes, marine sediments, and ice. Data provided by these archives are crucial for guiding simulations of dust and for better understanding the natural global dust cycle. However, the methods employed to derive paleo-dust deposition rates differ markedly between archives and are subject to different sources of uncertainty. Here, we present Paleo±Dust, an updated compilation of bulk and <10μm paleo-dust deposition rates with quantitative 1σ uncertainties that are inter-comparable among archive types. Paleo±Dust incorporates a total of 285 pre-industrial Holocene (pi-HOL) and 209 Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) dust flux constraints from studies published until December 2022, including, for the first time, peat records. We also recalculate previously published dust fluxes to exclude data from the last deglaciation and thus obtain more representative constraints for the last pre-industrial interglacial and glacial end-member climate states. Based on Paleo±Dust, the global LGM:pi-HOL ratio of <10μm dust deposition rates is 3.1±0.7 (1σ). We expect Paleo±Dust to be of use for future paleoclimate dust studies and simulations using Earth system models of high to intermediate complexity. Paleo±Dust is publicly accessible at 10.1594/PANGAEA.962969 (Cosentino et al., 2024).
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Dust, Database, Paleoclimate
English
2024
16
2
941
959
open
Cosentino, N., Torre, G., Lambert, F., Albani, S., De Vleeschouwer, F., Bory, A. (2024). Paleo±Dust: quantifying uncertainty in paleo-dust deposition across archive types. EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCE DATA, 16(2), 941-959 [10.5194/essd-16-941-2024].
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