Fig. 4: Climate coupling between Antarctic dust and Northern Hemisphere ice volume.
From: Antiphased dust deposition and productivity in the Antarctic Zone over 1.5 million years
Relationship between the dust proxy magnetic susceptibility (MS) record of Site U1537 and the global ice volume stack LR04 (ref. 23) (a) and relative sea level record from the Mediterranean49 (b). MIS refers to Marine Isotopic Stages. Note that dust deposition in the AZ, if plotted on a logarithmic scale, shows a very close relationship to variations in global ice volume. MS is similarly inversely correlated with relative sea level. Global ice volume and sea level are mainly driven by size variations in Northern Hemisphere ice sheets, pointing to a close interhemispheric coupling of cryospheric, oceanic and atmospheric processes.
