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Mount Logan Ice Core Evidence for Changes in the Hadley and Walker Circulations Following the end of the Little Ice Age

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The Hadley Circulation: Present, Past and Future

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The Hadley and Walker circulations dominate the climate of the tropics and contribute to extratropical climate variability through the forcing of planetary waves that result in the long-range correlation of atmospheric circulation patterns known as teleconnections. Previous work showed that an annually resolved 301-year ice core record of annual snow accumulation from a high-elevation site on Mount Logan in northwestern North America contains an expression of one such teleconnexion, the Pacific-North American (PNA) pattern. Here we show that this record contains a related signal associated with the regional Hadley and Walker circulations in the Pacific. We argue that the positive trend in snow accumulation in the ice core that started in the middle of the nineteenth century is a reflection of changes in the intensities of these circulations that has been ongoing since the end of the Little Ice Age (LIA).

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  1. Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 1A7, Canada

    G. W. K. Moore

  2. PAGES International Project Office, CH-3011, Bern, Switzerland

    Keith Alverson

  3. Arctic Institute of North America, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, T2N 1N4, Canada

    Gerald Holdsworth

  4. Institute for the Study of Earth Oceans and Space, University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire, 03824, USA

    Gerald Holdsworth

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Moore, G.W.K., Alverson, K., Holdsworth, G. (2004). Mount Logan Ice Core Evidence for Changes in the Hadley and Walker Circulations Following the end of the Little Ice Age. In: Diaz, H.F., Bradley, R.S. (eds) The Hadley Circulation: Present, Past and Future. Advances in Global Change Research, vol 21. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-2944-8_14

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