Significant Southern Hemisphere contribution to the Indonesian Throughflow over the last 800,000 years
N from the Banda Sea, at the heart of the ITF, shows that Southern Hemisphere-sourced subsurface waters contributed significantly to the total ITF transport during the last 800,000 years. Because Southern Ocean processes ultimately set the biogeochemical source signature of the Southern Hemisphere endmember, the Banda Sea record implies an important conduit by which high southern latitude climate and ocean variability is transmitted into the global ocean.
Authors
- Martina Hollstein (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5899-9959)
- Min-te Chen
- Patrick A. Rafter (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6352-7593)
- Nadine Lehmann (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7884-5009)
- Ziye Li (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5132-2956)
- Markus Kienast (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5698-8105)
- Mahyar Mohtadi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3306-0969)
Institutions
- University of Tasmania (AU)
- Dalhousie University (CA)
- National Taiwan Ocean University (TW)
- University of Bremen (DE)
- Ocean University of China (CN)
- University of South Florida St. Petersburg (US)
- College of Marin (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Nature Communications
- Published
- 2026-04-14
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-71786-1
- Primary Topic
- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- National Science Foundation
- Yale University
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
- National Natural Science Foundation of China
- China Postdoctoral Science Foundation
- Dalhousie University
- Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan
- National Science and Technology Council
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada