Abrupt Decrease in Tropical Pacific Sea Surface Salinity at End of Little Ice Age

@article{Hendy2002AbruptDI,
  title={Abrupt Decrease in Tropical Pacific Sea Surface Salinity at End of Little Ice Age},
  author={Erica J. Hendy and Michael K. Gagan and Chantal Alibert and Malcolm T. McCulloch and Janice M. Lough and Peter J. Isdale},
  journal={Science},
  year={2002},
  volume={295},
  pages={1511 - 1514}
}
A 420-year history of strontium/calcium, uranium/calcium, and oxygen isotope ratios in eight coral cores from the Great Barrier Reef, Australia, indicates that sea surface temperature and salinity were higher in the 18th century than in the 20th century. An abrupt freshening after 1870 occurred simultaneously throughout the southwestern Pacific, coinciding with cooling tropical temperatures. Higher salinities between 1565 and 1870 are best explained by a combination of advection and wind… 
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