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The microbial carbon pump and climate change
The ocean has been a regulator of climate change throughout the history of Earth. One key mechanism is the mediation of the carbon reservoir by refractory dissolved organic carbon (RDOC), which can either be s...
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Warm pool ocean heat content regulates ocean–continent moisture transport
The Indo-Pacific Warm Pool (IPWP) exerts a dominant role in global climate by releasing huge amounts of water vapour and latent heat to the atmosphere and modulating upper ocean heat content (OHC), which has b...
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Exploring the deep South China Sea: Retrospects and prospects
Rapid developments of deep-sea researches in China over the past 20 years have promoted the South China Sea (SCS) into the international deep-sea frontiers. The “three deep technologies”, namely scientific dri...
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Changing structure of benthic foraminiferal communities due to declining pH: Results from laboratory culture experiments
The ocean absorbs large amounts of CO2 emitted from human activities, which results in a decrease in seawater pH. Marine calcifying organisms such as foraminifera, are most likely to be affected by this declining...
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The B/Ca and Cd/Ca of a subsurface-dwelling foraminifera Pulleniatina obliquiloculata in the tropical Indo-Pacific Ocean: implications for the subsurface carbonate chemistry estimation
Pulleniatina obliquiloculata shells from 16 core-top samples from the tropical Indo-Pacific Oceans are analyzed for the ratios of boron and cadmium to calcium (B/Ca and Cd/Ca). The B/Ca ratios show a very weak po...
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Responses of benthic foraminifera to changes of temperature and salinity: Results from a laboratory culture experiment
The effects of temperature and salinity on intertidal foraminiferal community under laboratory conditions are poorly understood. We designed a two-factor crossed experiment in which foraminiferal communities w...
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Open AccessVariability of the Indonesian Throughflow in the Makassar Strait over the Last 30 ka
The hydrological characteristics, including temperatures and salinities, of the upper water over the last 30 ka from two sites connected by the Indonesian Throughflow (ITF) across the Makassar Strait are recon...
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Spatiotemporal variations of deep-sea sediment components and their fluxes since the last glaciation in the northern South China Sea
Sediment components and their fluxes of Cores MD12-3428 (water depth: 903 m), MD12-3433 (water depth: 2125 m), and MD12-3434 (water depth: 2995 m), obtained along a transect on the continental slope of the nor...
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The response of winter Pacific North American pattern to strong volcanic eruptions
The impact of volcanic eruptions on large-scale atmospheric circulation patterns has been well studied, but very little effort has been made on relating the response of Pacific North American (PNA) pattern to ...
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Open AccessRelative roles of land- and ocean-atmosphere interactions in Asian-Pacific thermal contrast variability at the precessional band
In a 250-kyr transient simulation of the Community Earth System Model (CESM), we identified a precessional forced seesaw of the summer middle-upper tropospheric eddy temperature between Asia and the North Paci...
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Stratigraphic gaps at northern South China Sea margin reflect changes in Pacific deepwater inflow at glacial Termination II
To constrain short-term changes of climate and oceanography in the northern South China Sea (SCS) over interglacial marine isotope stage (MIS) 5.5, we studied planktic and benthic δ 18O records of...
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Open AccessSolar forced transient evolution of Pacific upper water thermal structure during the Holocene in an earth system model of intermediate complexity
Forced by transient solar activities since 7 ka, the thermal structures of the Pacific upper water at boreal winter are featured by an enhanced response of 3-dimensional Western Pacific Warm Pool (WPWP) in an ...
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Open AccessA palynological and palaeoclimatological record from the southern Philippines since the Last Glacial Maximum
A palynological analysis of a marine sediment core in the southern Philippines, provides a detailed regional vegetation and climate history for the West Pacific Warm Pool (WPWP) since the Last Glacial Maximum ...
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Open AccessEarly Pleistocene formation of the asymmetric east-west pattern of upper water structure in the equatorial Pacific Ocean
Surface- and subsurface-dwelling planktonic foraminifera from the upper 43 m of Hole A at the Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) Site 807, which was recovered from the western Pacific warm pool during ODP Leg 130, w...
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Seasonal variations in planktonic foraminiferal flux and the chemical properties of their shells in the southern South China Sea
Results from sediment trap experiments conducted in the southern South China Sea from May 2004 to March 2006 revealed significant monsoon-induced seasonal variations in flux and shell geochemistry of planktoni...
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Pulleniatina Minimum Event during the last deglaciation in the southern South China Sea
The planktonic foraminiferal faunal census of core MD 05-2894 (7°2.25′N, 111°33.11′E, water depth 1982 m), retrieved from the southern South China Sea (SCS) during the “Marco Polo” cruise in 2005, was performe...
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Deep Waters and Oceanic Connection
Among the low to mid latitude western Pacific marginal seas are the South China Sea (SCS), Sulu Sea and Sea of Japan, the three major enclosed seas in the region with passages connecting to the open ocean. The...
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Upper Water Structure and Paleo-Monsoon5
Hemipelagic sediments in the SCS often register higher depositional rates. Carbonate compensation depth (CCD) in this marginal ocean basin is generally deeper than neighboring sea basins. Thus the SCS offers a...
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Quaternary biogenic opal records in the South China Sea: Linkages to East Asian monsoon, global ice volume and orbital forcing
Particulate fluxes investigated in the central South China Sea (SCS) during 1993–1996 indicate that opal flux can be used to show primary productivity change, which provides a foundation for tracing the evolut...
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Benthic foraminiferal fauna turnover at 2.1 Ma in the northern South China Sea
Quantitative analysis of benthic foraminifera from ODP Site 1146 in the northern South China Sea (SCS) shows that abundance of Bulimina alazanensis, sometimes up to about 90%, decreased gradually since 3.2 Ma, es...
