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GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
Volume 32, Issue 8, Pages -Publisher
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL022014
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The role of the tropics in global climate change is actively debated, particularly in regard to the timing and magnitude of thermal and hydrological response. Continuous, high-resolution temperature records through the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) from tropical oceans have provided much insight but surface temperature reconstructions do not exist from tropical continental environments. Here we used the TEX86 paleotemperature proxy to reconstruct mean annual lake surface temperatures through the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) in Lake Malawi, East Africa (9 degrees-14 degrees S). We find a similar to 3.5 degrees C overall warming since the LGM, with temperature reversals of similar to 2 degrees C during the Younger Dryas (12.5 ka BP) and at 8.2 ka BP. Maximum Holocene temperatures of similar to 29 degrees C were found at 5 ka BP, a period preceding severe drought in Africa. These results suggest a substantial thermal response of southeastern tropical Africa to deglaciation and to varying conditions during the Holocene.
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