Tracking westerly wind directions over Europe since the middle Holocene

Hu，Hsun Ming1,2; Trouet，Valerie3; Spötl，Christoph4; Tsai，Hsien Chen1,2; Chien，Wei Yi1,2; Sung，Wen Hui1,2; Michel，Véronique5,6; Yu，Jin Yi7; Valensi，Patricia8,9; Jiang，Xiuyang10; Duan，Fucai11; Wang，Yongjin11; Mii，Horng Sheng12; Chou，Yu Min13; Lone，Mahjoor Ahmad1,2,14; Wu，Chung Che1,2; Starnini，Elisabetta15,16; Zunino，Marta17; Watanabe，Takaaki K.18; Watanabe，Tsuyoshi18,19; Hsu，Huang Hsiung20; Moore，G. W.K.21,22; Zanchetta，Giovanni23,24,25,26; Pérez-Mejías，Carlos27; Lee，Shih Yu20; Shen，Chuan Chou1,2

2022-12-01

10.1038/s41467-022-34952-9

Nature Communications   Impact Factor & Quartile

2041-1723

The variability of the northern westerlies has been considered as one of the key elements for modern and past climate evolution. Their multiscale behavior and underlying control mechanisms, however, are incompletely understood, owing to the complex dynamics of Atlantic sea-level pressures. Here, we present a multi-annually resolved record of the westerly drift over the past 6,500 years from northern Italy. In combination with more than 20 other westerly-sensitive records, our results depict the non-stationary westerly-affected regions over mainland Europe on multi-decadal to multi-centennial time scales, showing that the direction of the westerlies has changed with respect to the migrations of the North Atlantic centers of action since the middle Holocene. Our findings suggest the crucial role of the migrations of the North Atlantic dipole in modulating the westerly-affected domain over Europe, possibly modulated by Atlantic Ocean variability.

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1.High-Precision MassSpectrometry and Environment Change Laboratory (HISPEC),Department of Geosciences,National Taiwan University,Taipei,10617,Taiwan
2.Research Center for Future Earth,National Taiwan University,Taipei,10617,Taiwan
3.Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research,University of Arizona,Tucson,85721,United States
4.Institute of Geology,University of Innsbruck,Innsbruck,6020,Austria
5.Université Côte d’Azur,CNRS,CEPAM,Nice,06300,France
6.Université Côte d’Azur,CNRS,OCA,IRD,Géoazur,Valbonne,06560,France
7.Department of Earth System Science,University of California,Irvine,92697-3100,United States
8.HNHP,UMR 7194,Sorbonne Universités,MNHN,CNRS,UPMC,UPVD,Paris,France
9.Laboratoire Nice-Côte d’Azur,Fondation IPH,Nice,06300,France
10.Department of Geography Science,Fujian Normal University,Fuzhou,Fujian,350117,China
11.College of Geography Science,Nanjing Normal University,Nanjing,210046,China
12.Department of Earth Sciences,National Taiwan Normal University,Taipei,11677,Taiwan
13.Department of Ocean Science & Engineering,Southern University of Science and Technology,Guangdong,518055,China
14.Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences,Northumbria University,Newcastle,NE1 8ST,United Kingdom
15.Department of Civilizations and Forms of Knowledge,University of Pisa,Pisa,56126,Italy
16.Archaeological Superintendency of Liguria,Genova,16126,Italy
17.Toirano Cave,Toirano,17055,Italy
18.Department of Natural History Sciences,Faculty of Science,Hokkaido University,Sapporo,060-0810,Japan
19.KIKAI Institute for Coral Reef Sciences,Kikai Town,891-6151,Japan
20.Research Center for Environmental Changes,Academia Sinica,Taipei,11529,Taiwan
21.Department of Physics,University of Toronto,Toronto,M5S 1A7,Canada
22.Department of Chemical and Physical Sciences,University of Toronto Mississauga,Mississauga,L5L 1C6,Canada
23.Department of Earth Sciences,University of Pisa,Pisa,56100,Italy
24.CIRSEC,Centre for Climatic Change Impact,University of Pisa,Pisa,Italy
25.INGV,Pisa,56125,Italy
26.IGAG-CNR,Monterotondo,Rome,Italy
27.Institute of Global Environmental Change,Xi’an Jiaotong University,Xi’an,710049,China

Hu，Hsun Ming,Trouet，Valerie,Spötl，Christoph,et al. Tracking westerly wind directions over Europe since the middle Holocene[J]. Nature Communications,2022,13(1).

Hu，Hsun Ming.,Trouet，Valerie.,Spötl，Christoph.,Tsai，Hsien Chen.,Chien，Wei Yi.,...&Shen，Chuan Chou.(2022).Tracking westerly wind directions over Europe since the middle Holocene.Nature Communications,13(1).

Hu，Hsun Ming,et al."Tracking westerly wind directions over Europe since the middle Holocene".Nature Communications 13.1(2022).