Journal
GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE
Volume 62, Issue 1-2, Pages 107-114Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2007.12.003
Keywords
fossil pollen; A/C ratio; effective moisture; climate data; Gahai Lake; Qaidam Basin
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We present a 50-year pollen record at near-annual resolution from Gahai Lake in the Qaidam Basin on the northeastern Tibetan Plateau. Chronology of a 22-cm short core was established by Pb-210 and Cs-117 analysis. The pollen results at 0.5 cm intervals show large changes in Artemisia/Chenopodiaccae (A/C) ratios from <0.2 to 0.95 in the last 50 years. High (low) A/C ratios represent increase (decrease) in steppe pollen production, which correspond to high (low) relative humidity observed at nearby Delingha weather station. On the basis of good correspondence with instrumental records and carbonate content from Gahai Lake, we conclude that A/C ratio is sensitive to moisture change and can be a very useful index in reconstructing paleoclimate of and regions. Comparison with pollen and snow accumulation data from Dunde ice core suggests that effective moisture at low and high elevations shows the opposite relationship when mountain precipitation was extremely high, possibly due to topography-induced uplifting and subsiding air dynamics. (C) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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