Southward migration of the Southern Hemisphere westerly winds corresponds with warming climate over centennial timescales

BB Perren, DA Hodgson, SJ Roberts, L Sime… - … Earth & Environment, 2020 - nature.com
Recent changes in the strength and location of the Southern Hemisphere westerly winds
(SHW) have been linked to continental droughts and wildfires, changes in the Southern …

Holocene dynamics of the Southern Hemisphere westerly winds and possible links to CO2 outgassing

KM Saunders, SJ Roberts, B Perren, C Butz… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Abstract The Southern Hemisphere westerly winds (SHW) play an important role in
regulating the capacity of the Southern Ocean carbon sink. They modulate upwelling of …

Holocene changes in the position and intensity of the southern westerly wind belt

F Lamy, R Kilian, HW Arz, JP Francois, J Kaiser… - Nature …, 2010 - nature.com
The position and intensity of the southern westerly wind belt varies seasonally as a
consequence of changes in sea surface temperature. During the austral winter, the belt …

Abrupt millennial-scale changes in intensity of Southern Hemisphere westerly winds during marine isotope stages 2–4

TE Whittaker, CH Hendy, JC Hellstrom - Geology, 2011 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The strength of mid-southern latitude westerly atmospheric circulation plays an important
role in global climate. Due to a lack of long, continuous, high-resolution paleoclimate …

Historical and projected changes in the Southern Hemisphere surface westerlies

R Goyal, A Sen Gupta, M Jucker… - Geophysical Research …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Southern Hemisphere (SH) surface westerlies fundamentally control regional
patterns of air temperature, storm tracks, and precipitation while also regulating ocean …

Centennial-scale variability of the Southern Hemisphere westerly wind belt in the eastern Pacific over the past two millennia

BG Koffman, KJ Kreutz, DJ Breton, EJ Kane… - Climate of the …, 2014 - cp.copernicus.org
We present the first high-resolution (sub-annual) dust particle data set from West Antarctica,
developed from the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) Divide deep ice core (79.468° S …

Southern Hemisphere westerly wind changes during the Last Glacial Maximum: model-data comparison

LC Sime, KE Kohfeld, C Le Quéré, EW Wolff… - Quaternary Science …, 2013 - Elsevier
The Southern Hemisphere (SH) westerly winds are thought to be critical to global ocean
circulation, productivity, and carbon storage. For example, an equatorward shift in the winds …

The Zealandia Switch: Ice age climate shifts viewed from Southern Hemisphere moraines

GH Denton, AE Putnam, JL Russell, DJA Barrell… - Quaternary Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
Two fundamental questions about the ice-age climate system await satisfactory resolution.
First, if summer solar radiation intensity truly controls the orbital signature of the last glacial …

Hemispherically asymmetric trade wind changes as signatures of past ITCZ shifts

D McGee, E Moreno-Chamarro, B Green… - Quaternary Science …, 2018 - Elsevier
The atmospheric Hadley cells, which meet at the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ),
play critical roles in transporting heat, driving ocean circulation and supplying precipitation …

Southern Hemisphere westerly wind changes during the Last Glacial Maximum: paleo-data synthesis

KE Kohfeld, RM Graham, AM De Boer, LC Sime… - Quaternary Science …, 2013 - Elsevier
Changes in the strength and position of Southern Hemisphere westerly winds during the
Last Glacial cycle have been invoked to explain both millennial and glacial–interglacial …