book: Sea surface water temperatures over the period 1884-1983 reconstructed from oxygen isotope ratios of a ... | B.R. Schone, A.D. Freyre Castro, ...     books:     Sea surface water ...   Sea surface water temperatures over the period 1884-1983 reconstructed from oxygen isotope ratios of a ... B.R. Schone, A.D. Freyre Castro, ... Elsevier, 2004 view larger image  for more information click here This digital document is a journal article from Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, published by Elsevier in 2004. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Description: Although climate system modeling cannot be imagined without long sea surface temperature (SST) records, observational data is spatiotemporally incomplete and inhomogeneous prior to about 1950. Moreover, almost no high-resolution SST proxies exist from temperate and boreal marine settings. Here, we present a temporally equidistant, high-resolution SST proxy record of the southern North Sea during the period 1884-1983 calculated from oxygen isotope ratios (@d^1^8O"a"r"a"g"o"n"i"t"e) of Arctica islandica (L.), a bivalve mollusk shell. Arctica islandica produces daily growth increments, which enable precise intraannual dating. The growing season of specimens from about 25 m water depth (upper well-mixed layer of the ocean) started in February and ended in September. Observational (COADS, etc.) and @d^1^8O"a"r"a"g"o"n"i"t"e-derived SST data during February through September compare well to each other, especially after 1950. Apart from similar overall SST trends, we found North Atlantic Oscillation-type cycles of 7-9 years in our proxy SST record and in various different instrumentally determined SST chronologies. No vital effects exist, so that @d^1^8O"a"r"a"g"o"n"i"t"e ratios determined across the shell (i.e., throughout lifetime) of the studied specimen reflect ambient water temperatures that occurred during shell growth. Results of our study demonstrate that A. islandica provides long, independent and high-resolution SST proxy chronologies from higher latitudes. Such records can complement and further validate observational SST data and help improving climate system models.  for more information click here search for books sea surface, islandica, palaeoclimatology, palaeoecology, reconstructed, temperatures randomly chosen VHS: Map of the Human Heart