Ideas and perspectives: Southwestern tropical Atlantic coral growth response to atmospheric  circulation changes induced by ozone depletion in Antarctica

Evangelista, Heitor; Wainer, Ilana; Sifeddine, Abdelfettah; Corrège, Thierry; Cordeiro, Renato C.; Lamounier, Saulo; Godiva, Daniely; Shen, Chuan-Chou; Le Cornec, Florence; Turcq, Bruno; Lazareth, Claire E.; Hu, Ching-Yi

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-13-2379-2016

Articles | Volume 13, issue 8

https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-13-2379-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-13-2379-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 13, issue 8

Ideas and perspectives

|

25 Apr 2016

Ideas and perspectives |

| 25 Apr 2016

Ideas and perspectives: Southwestern tropical Atlantic coral growth response to atmospheric circulation changes induced by ozone depletion in Antarctica

Heitor Evangelista, Ilana Wainer, Abdelfettah Sifeddine, Thierry Corrège, Renato C. Cordeiro, Saulo Lamounier, Daniely Godiva, Chuan-Chou Shen, Florence Le Cornec, Bruno Turcq, Claire E. Lazareth, and Ching-Yi Hu

Data sets

The NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis Project NOAA http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/

PDO, Pacific Decadal Oscillation JISAO http://www.jisao.washington.edu

Short summary

Recent Southern Hemisphere (SH) atmospheric circulation, predominantly driven by stratospheric ozone depletion over Antarctica, has caused changes in climate across the extratropics. We present evidence that the Brazilian coast may have been impacted from both wind and sea surface temperature changes derived from this process. Skeleton analysis of massive coral species living in shallow waters off Brazil are very sensitive to air–sea interactions and seem to record this process.