Holocene temperature and precipitation variability on the central Tibetan Plateau revealed by multiple palaeo-climatic proxy records from an alpine wetland sequence
| Autor: | Jonathan C. Aitchison, Zhuo Zheng, Zhonghui Liu, Yongqiang Zong, Man-Ching Cheung |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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010506 paleontology
Archeology Global and Planetary Change N alkanes geography geography.geographical_feature_category Ecology Paleontology Westerlies Wetland 010502 geochemistry & geophysics 01 natural sciences Proxy (climate) Climatology East Asian Monsoon Geology Holocene 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Earth-Surface Processes |
| Zdroj: | The Holocene. 27:1669-1681 |
| ISSN: | 1477-0911 0959-6836 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0959683617702225 |
| Popis: | This study has reconstructed the Holocene environmental history of central Tibetan Plateau, a transitional area between monsoon-dominated Asia and Westerlies-dominated Asia, to examine the interplay between the two circulation systems and effects of other potential mechanisms on the temporal variability of Holocene climatic conditions in the study area. Specifically, this study has produced a twin record of palaeo-hydrology and palaeo-temperature from an alpine wetland sediment sequence using two sets of lipid-based biomarker indices: n-alkanes and branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers (bGDGTs). The results show that (1) the Asian summer monsoon has supplied moisture that helped initiate the wetland habitat around 8000 cal. yr BP, about 2000 years later than locations along the southeastern edge of the plateau; (2) a significant decline in moisture supply is evident since the Medieval Warm period; (3) the Westerlies have transmitted variability of the North Atlantic climate to the study area, resulting in periodic increases in evaporation and causing short-term expansion or contraction of the wetland and (4) the palaeo-air temperature change follows closely that of global sea level and sea surface temperature, implying a link to global ice volume change throughout the Holocene. This study concludes that the Holocene climate history of central Tibetan Plateau is a result of monsoonal moisture supply interacted with the Westerlies variability, while the palaeo-temperature has followed changes in global ice volume during the present warm interglacial. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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