期刊
JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS
卷 73, 期 2, 页码 154-163出版社
ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaridenv.2008.03.016
关键词
Climate scenarios in the Monte for the 21th century; Current climate condicitons; Extreme climatic events in the Monte; Past climate variations in the Monte; Spatial patterns of temperature and precipitation
资金
- Agencia Nacional de Promocion Cientifica y Tecnologica, Argentina [PICTR2002-00186]
- Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI) [2047]
- US National Science Foundation [GEO-0452325]
This paper documents the main features of climate and climate variability across the Monte Desert for the Last Glacial Maximum, the Glacial-Interglacial transition, and the Holocene on the basis of proxy records and for the 20th century using instrumental observations. The climate in the Monte is determined by interactions between regional physiography and atmospheric circulation in the 25-45 degrees S sectors of South America. Although arid and semi-arid conditions prevail across the Monte, its large latitudinal extent and complex topography introduce many particularities at local scales. Paleoclimatic records and model simulations of past climates suggest significant variations in the atmospheric circulation, temperature and rainfall patterns since the Last Glacial Maximum. High-resolution proxy records east of the Andes support the existence of complex climatic patterns with similar temperature changes across the whole region but opposite precipitation variations between subtropical and mid-latitude sectors in the Monte during the past millennium. The present-day climate is depicted in terms of the space and time variability of the near-surface temperature, rainfall and tropospheric wind patterns. Uneven temperature trends over the Monte were recorded for two separate (1920-44 and 1977-2001) global warming periods in the 20th century. Additional warming evidence in the region is provided by extreme temperature records. The non-homogeneous regional pattern of precipitation shows a positive long-term increase between 30 and 40 degrees S during the interval 1985-2001. Ensemble of climate experiments accomplished with general circulation models provide the most likely changes in temperature and rainfall to occur by the end of this century in relation to present climate. Temperature increases, larger in summer than in winter, will be concurrent with more abundant precipitations in summer, but almost no changes or even small reductions in winter across the Monte. (C) 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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