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NATURE GEOSCIENCE
卷 8, 期 3, 页码 195-200出版社
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/NGEO2353
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- European Research Council [240167]
- National Science Foundation of the United States [BCS-0620445, HSD-0827305, HSD-0827275, BCS-0940744]
- Alphawood Foundation
- Schweizer National Fund, Sinergia [CRSI22 132646/1]
- Division Of Behavioral and Cognitive Sci
- Direct For Social, Behav & Economic Scie [0940744] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Division Of Behavioral and Cognitive Sci
- Direct For Social, Behav & Economic Scie [0940822] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Division Of Ocean Sciences
- Directorate For Geosciences [1242891] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
The position of the intertropical convergence zone is an important control on the distribution of low-latitude precipitation. Its position is largely controlled by hemisphere temperature contrasts(1,2). The release of aerosols by human activities may have resulted in a southward shift of the intertropical convergence zone since the early 1900s (refs 1,3-6) by muting the warming of the Northern Hemisphere relative to the Southern Hemisphere over this interval(1,7,8), but this proposed shift remains equivocal. Here we reconstruct monthly rainfall over Belize for the past 456 years from variations in the carbon isotope composition of a well-dated, monthly resolved speleothem. We identify an unprecedented drying trend since AD 1850 that indicates a southward displacement of the intertropical convergence zone. This drying coincides with increasing aerosol emissions in the Northern Hemisphere and also marks a breakdown in the relationship between Northern Hemisphere temperatures and the position of the intertropical convergence zone observed earlier in the record. We also identify nine short-lived drying events since AD 1550 each following a large volcanic eruption in the Northern Hemisphere. We conclude that anthropogenic aerosol emissions have led to a reduction of rainfall in the northern tropics during the twentieth century, and suggest that geographic changes in aerosol emissions should be considered when assessing potential future rainfall shifts in the tropics.
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