M. A. J. Curran's research while affiliated with Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre and other places
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Publications (193)
Carbon monoxide (CO) is a naturally occurring atmospheric trace gas, a regulated pollutant, and one of the main components determining the oxidative capacity of the atmosphere. Evaluating climate–chemistry models under different conditions than today and constraining past CO sources requires a reliable record of atmospheric CO mixing ratios ([CO])...
The temperature of the Earth is one of the most important climate parameters. Proxy records of past climate changes, in particular temperature, represent a fundamental tool for exploring internal climate processes and natural climate forcings. Despite the excellent information provided by ice core records in Antarctica, the temperature variability...
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Carbon monoxide (CO) is a naturally occurring atmospheric trace gas, a regulated pollutant and one of the main components determining the oxidative capacity of the atmosphere. Evaluating climate-chemical models under different conditions than today and constraining past CO sources requires a reliable record of atmospheric CO mixing ratios ([CO]) si...
The temperature of the earth is one of the most important climate parameters. Proxy records of past climate changes, in particular temperature, are a fundamental tool for exploring internal climate processes and natural climate forcings. Despite the excellent information provided by ice core records in Antarctica, the temperature variability of the...
Standard proxies for reconstructing surface mass balance (SMB) in Antarctic ice cores are often inaccurate or coarsely resolved when applied to more complicated environments away from dome summits. Here, we propose an alternative SMB proxy based on photolytic fractionation of nitrogen isotopes in nitrate observed at 114 sites throughout East Antarc...
Ice core records from Law Dome in East Antarctica collected over the last four decades provide high-resolution data for studies of the climate of Antarctica, Australia, and the Southern and Indo-Pacific oceans. Here, we present a set of annually dated records of trace chemistry, stable water isotopes and snow accumulation from Law Dome covering the...
Bio‐essential iron can relieve nutrient limitation and stimulate marine productivity in the Southern Ocean. The fractional iron solubility of aerosol iron is an important variable determining iron availability for biological uptake. However, estimates of dissolved iron (dFe; iron < 0.2 μm) and the factors driving the variability of fractional iron...
The Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation, an index which defines decadal climate variability throughout the Pacific, is generally assumed to have positive and negative phases that each last 20-30 years. Here we present a 2000-year reconstruction of the Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation, obtained using information preserved in Antarctic ice cores, that s...
Standard proxies for reconstructing surface mass balance (SMB) in Antarctic ice cores are often inaccurate or coarsely resolved when applied to more complicated environments away from dome summits. Here, we propose an alternative SMB proxy based on photolytic fractionation of nitrogen isotopes in nitrate observed at 114 sites throughout East Antarc...
Ice core records from Law Dome in East Antarctica, collected over the the last three decades, provide high resolution data for studies of the climate of Antarctica, Australia and the Southern and Indo-Pacific Oceans. Here we present a set of annually dated records of trace chemistry, stable water isotopes and snow accumulation from Law Dome coverin...
South West Western Australia (SWWA) has experienced a prolonged reduction in rainfall in recent decades, with associated reductions in regional
water supply and residential and agricultural impacts. The cause of the reduction has been widely considered but remains unclear. The relatively
short length of the instrumental record limits long-term inve...
Paleoclimate archives, such as high-resolution ice core records, provide a
means to investigate past climate variability. Until recently, the Law Dome
(Dome Summit South site) ice core record remained one of few
millennial-length high-resolution coastal records in East Antarctica. A new
ice core drilled in 2017/2018 at Mount Brown South, approximat...
Fire plays a pivotal role in shaping terrestrial ecosystems and the chemical composition of the atmosphere and thus influences Earth’s climate. The trend and magnitude of fire activity over the past few centuries are controversial, which hinders understanding of preindustrial to present-day aerosol radiative forcing. Here, we present evidence from...
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A surface warming in Antarctica can induce an increase in ice sheet melting and further a rising of global sea level. Therefore, to understand how and why the Antarctic surface temperatures have changed is important to human life. Here, we study the climate variability in East Antarctic Plateau (EAP) during the period of 1–19...
Paleoclimate archives, such as high-resolution ice core records, provide a means to investigate long-term (multi-centennial) climate variability. Until recently, the Law Dome (Dome Summit South) ice core record remained one of few long-term high-resolution records in East Antarctica. A new ice core drilled in 2017/2018 at Mount Brown South, approxi...
Weather systems in the southern Indian Ocean (SIO) drive synoptic-scale precipitation
variability in East Antarctica and southern Australia. Improved understanding of these
dynamical linkages is beneficial to diagnose long-term climate changes from climate proxy records as well as informing regional weather and climate forecasts. Self-organising ma...
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Abstract We present a new simple and efficient method for correlation of unevenly and differently sampled data. This new method overcomes problems with other methods for correlation with non-uniform sampling and is an easy modification to existing correlation based codes. To demonstrate the usefulness of this new method to real-world examples, we a...
South West Western Australia (SWWA) has experienced a prolonged reduction in rainfall in recent decades, with associated reductions in regional water supply and residential and agricultural impacts. The cause of the reduction has been widely considered, but remains unclear. The relatively short length of the instrumental record limits long-term inv...
Reconstructions of global hydroclimate during the Common Era (CE; the past ∼ 2000 years) are important for providing context for current and future global environmental change. Stable isotope ratios in water are quantitative indicators of hydroclimate on regional to global scales, and these signals are encoded in a wide range of natural geologic ar...
Understanding climate proxy records that preserve physical characteristics of past climate is a prerequisite to reconstruct long‐term climatic conditions. Water stable isotope ratios (δ¹⁸O) constitute a widely used proxy in ice cores to reconstruct temperature and climate. However, the original climate signal is altered between the formation of pre...
The future response of the Antarctic ice sheet to rising temperatures remains highly uncertain. A useful period for assessing the sensitivity of Antarctica to warming is the Last Interglacial (LIG) (129 to 116 ky), which experienced warmer polar temperatures and higher global mean sea level (GMSL) (+6 to 11 m) relative to present day. LIG sea level...
Interpretation of eastern Antarctic ice-core palaeoclimate proxies can be improved through better understanding of the synoptic-scale dynamics and variability of the Southern Indian Ocean. In the case of high-resolution (seasonal to annual) ice-cores, this is especially important, as event-scale precipitation and redistribution of surface snow can...
The Southern Ocean occupies 14% of the Earth’s surface and plays a fundamental role in the global carbon cycle and climate. It provides a direct connection to the deep ocean carbon reservoir through biogeochemical processes that include surface primary productivity, remineralization at depth and the upwelling of carbon-rich water masses. However, t...
Study region
South East Queensland (SEQ), Australia.
Study focus
Decision makers in the water sector need to deal with uncertainty about the impacts of climate variability and change. Identifying solutions for hydroclimatic risk adaptation strategies that are both optimal and robust in the presence of this uncertainty presents a difficult challeng...
The future response of the Antarctic ice sheet to rising temperatures remains highly uncertain. A useful period for assessing the sensitivity of Antarctica to warming is the Last Interglacial (LIG) (129 to 116 ky), which experienced warmer polar temperatures and higher global mean sea level (GMSL) (+6 to 9 m) relative to present day. LIG sea level...
Ice core records of the major atmospheric greenhouse
gases (CO2, CH4, N2O) and their isotopologues covering recent
centuries provide evidence of biogeochemical variations during the
Late Holocene and pre-industrial periods and over the transition to the
industrial period. These records come from a number of ice core and firn air
sites and have been...
The Antarctic temperature changes over the past millennia remain more uncertain than in many other continental regions. This has several origins: (1) the number of high-resolution ice cores is small, in particular on the East Antarctic plateau and in some coastal areas in East Antarctica; (2) the short and spatially sparse instrumental records limi...
The first atmospheric observations of octafluorooxolane
(octafluorotetrahydrofuran, c-C4F8O), a persistent greenhouse gas, are
reported. In addition, a complementary laboratory study of its most likely atmospheric
loss processes, its infrared absorption spectrum, and global warming potential (GWP) are
reported. First atmospheric measurements of c-C...
Concentrations of dimethylsulfoniopropionate (DMSP), dimethylsulfide (DMS), and DMS flux are reported for the Great Barrier Reef (GBR), Great Barrier Reef Lagoon (GBRL), and Coral Sea. Generally higher concentrations of dimethylsulfoniopropionate and DMS occurred in coral reef waters, compared with GBRL concentrations. DMS flux from GBR coral reefs...
The significant advance of delivering high value multi-species data from sub-1 mL ice core sample volumes allows higher temporal resolution in deposition records of inorganic and low molecular weight organic anions and cations. The determination of these species is a fundamental strategic requirement in modern paleoclimate studies. Herein, for the...
Ice core records of the major atmospheric greenhouse gases (CO2, CH4, N2O) and their isotopologues covering recent centuries provide evidence of biogeochemical variations during the Late-Holocene and Pre-Industrial Periods and over the transition to the Industrial Period. These records come from a number of ice core and firn air sites, and have bee...
The future response of the Antarctic ice sheets to rising temperatures remains highly uncertain. A valuable analogue for assessing the sensitivity of Antarctica to warming is the Last Interglacial (129-116 kyr), when global sea level peaked 6 to 9 meters above present. Here we report a blue-ice record of ice-sheet and environmental change from the...
Concentrations of dimethylsulfoniopropionate (DMSP), dimethylsulfide (DMS), and DMS flux are reported for the Great Barrier Reef (GBR), Great Barrier Reef Lagoon (GBRL), and Coral Sea. Generally higher concentrations of dimethylsulfoniopropionate and DMS occurred in coral reef waters, compared with GBRL concentrations. DMS flux from GBR coral reefs...
The Antarctic temperature changes over the past millennia remain more uncertain than in many other continental regions. This has several origins: 1) the number of high resolution ice cores is small, in particular on the Antarctic Plateau and in some coastal areas in East Antarctica; 2) the short instrumental records limit the calibration period for...
The Southern Ocean plays a fundamental role in regulating global atmospheric CO2 levels, yet the underlying processes and feedbacks that control carbon cycle during climate transitions remain unclear. Following the last glacial, the rapid and punctuated rise in atmospheric CO2 was interrupted by an enigmatic 1,900-year plateau during a period of pr...
Reconstructing the dynamic response of the Antarctic ice sheets to warming during the Last Glacial Termination (LGT; 18,000–11,650 yrs ago) allows us to disentangle ice-climate feedbacks that are key to improving future projections. Whilst the sequence of events during this period is reasonably well known, relatively poor chronological
control has...
Climate trends in the Antarctic region remain poorly characterized, owing to
the brevity and scarcity of direct climate observations and the large
magnitude of interannual to decadal-scale climate variability. Here, within
the framework of the PAGES Antarctica2k working group, we build an enlarged
database of ice core water stable isotope records f...
Here we present Antarctic snow accumulation variability at the
regional scale over the past 1000 years. A total of 79 ice core snow
accumulation records were gathered and assigned to seven geographical
regions, separating the high-accumulation coastal zones below 2000 m of
elevation from the dry central Antarctic Plateau. The regional composites of...
Here we present a revised Law Dome, Dome Summit South (DSS) ice core age model (denoted LD2017) that significantly improves the chronology over the last 88 ka. An ensemble approach was used, allowing for the computation of both a median age and associated uncertainty as a function of depth. The revised chronology incorporates extended continuous an...
Reproducible climate reconstructions of the Common Era (1 CE to present) are key to placing industrial-era warming into the context of natural climatic variability. Here we present a community-sourced database of temperature-sensitive proxy records from the PAGES2k initiative. The database gathers 692 records from 648 locations, including all conti...
Coral reefs produce atmospheric dimethylsulfide (DMSa) which oxidises to non-sea-salt (nss) sulfate aerosols, precursors of cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) and low level cloud (LLC), reducing solar radiation and regulating sea surface temperatures (SSTs). Here we report measurements of solar radiation, SST, LLC, DMS flux, NH4 + , and rainfall befor...
A 120 m ice core was drilled on Mill Island, East Antarctica
(65°30′ S, 100°40′ E) during the 2009/2010 Australian
Antarctic field season. Contiguous discrete 5 cm samples were measured for
hydrogen peroxide, water stable isotopes, and trace ion chemistry. The ice
core was annually dated using a combination of chemical species and water
stable isot...
Sporadic solar energetic particle (SEP) events affect the Earth’s atmosphere and environment, in
particular leading to depletion of the protective ozone layer in the Earth’s atmosphere, and pose
potential technological and even life hazards. The greatest SEP storm known for the last 11 millennia
(the Holocene) occurred in 774–775 AD, serving as a l...
Here we review Antarctic snow accumulation variability, at the regional scale, over the past 1000 years. A total of 80 ice core snow accumulation records were gathered, as part of a community led project coordinated by the PAGES Antarctica 2k working group. The ice cores were assigned to seven geographical regions, separating the high accumulation...
Climate trends in the Antarctic region remain poorly characterised, owing to the brevity and scarcity of direct climate observations and the large magnitude of interannual to decadal-scale climate variability. Here, within the framework of the PAGES Antarctica 2k working group, we build an enlarged database of ice core water stable isotope records...
The Law Dome site is ideal for the evaluation of sea ice proxies due to its
location near to the Antarctic coast, regular and high accumulation
throughout the year, an absence of surface melting or remobilization, and
minimal multiyear sea ice. We present records of bromine and iodine
concentrations and their enrichment beyond seawater compositions...
Reconstructing the dynamic response of the Antarctic ice sheets to warming during the Last Glacial Termination (LGT; 18,000–11,650 yrs ago) allows us to disentangle ice-climate feedbacks that are key to improving future projections. Whilst the sequence of events during this period is reasonably well-known, relatively poor chronological control has...
The 2000 year record of atmospheric CO2 provides evidence of natural variations of the carbon cycle and the impact of anthropogenic activities. These records have been used extensively to quantify the anthropogenic CO2 increase, to identify the start of the anthropocene, to provide radiative forcing for earth system models and to infer carbon-clima...
The 2000 year record of atmospheric CO2 provides evidence of natural variations of the carbon cycle and the impact of anthropogenic activities. These records have been used extensively to quantify the anthropogenic CO2 increase, to identify the start of the anthropocene, to provide radiative forcing for earth system models and to infer carbon-clima...
The 2000 year record of atmospheric CO2 provides evidence of natural variations of the carbon cycle and the impact of anthropogenic activities. These records have been used extensively to quantify the anthropogenic CO2 increase, to identify the start of the anthropocene, to provide radiative forcing for earth system models and to infer carbon-clima...
The 2000 year record of atmospheric CO2 provides evidence of natural variations of the carbon cycle and the impact of anthropogenic activities. These records have been used extensively to quantify the anthropogenic CO2 increase, to identify the start of the anthropocene, to provide radiative forcing for earth system models and to infer carbon-clima...
The 2000 year record of atmospheric CO2 provides evidence of natural variations of the carbon cycle and the impact of anthropogenic activities. These records have been used extensively to quantify the anthropogenic CO2 increase, to identify the start of the anthropocene, to provide radiative forcing for earth system models and to infer carbon-clima...
The high costs associated with logistics and the collection of Antarctic ice-cores demands scientists to extract the absolute maximum data from these precious resources. Typically, the chemical analyses of these valuable ice cores, and/or of ice cores from low snow accumulation sites, requires the ice samples to be as small as possible. Despite hav...
Black carbon aerosols (BC) are a large source of climate warming, impact atmospheric chemistry, and are implicated in large-scale changes in atmospheric circulation. Inventories of BC emissions suggest significant changes in the global BC aerosol distribution due to human activity. However, little is known regarding BC's atmospheric distribution or...
Organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) were, for the first time,
quantified in archived firn cores from East Antarctica representative of
1945–1957 and 1958–1967 (current era, C.E.). The core sections were melted
under high-purity nitrogen atmosphere, and the meltwater was analysed. Methods
allowed quantification of hexachlorocyclohexanes, heptachlor,
tr...
Estimation of correlation with appropriate uncertainty limits for scientific data that are potentially serially correlated is a common problem made seriously challenging especially when data are sampled unevenly in space and/or time. Here we present a new, robust method for estimating correlation with uncertainty limits between autocorrelated serie...
A 120 m ice core was drilled on Mill Island, East Antarctica (65°30’ S, 100°40’ E) during the 2009/2010 Australian Antarctic field season. Contiguous discrete 5 cm samples were measured for hydrogen peroxide, water stable isotopes and trace ion chemistry. The ice core was annually dated using a combination of chemical species and water stable isoto...
