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QUATERNARY RESEARCH
卷 78, 期 3, 页码 513-527出版社
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2012.08.002
关键词
Paleoclimate; Early Holocene; Alluvial flow; Heavy rainfall; Coastal fog; El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO); Western South America; Paleohydrology; Pacific Ocean
资金
- FONDECYT [1090044, 11060484]
- CONICYT
- CEGA (Andean Geothermal Centre of Excelence), FONDAP project [15090013]
- CEAZA (Center for Advanced Studies in Arid Zones)
Water availability in the semiarid western coast of Chile (30-32 degrees S) is conditioned by high interannual precipitation variability, reflecting the transition between arid subtropical and moist mid-latitude climates in the Southeastern Pacific Ocean. A paleoclimate reconstruction based on the latest Pleistocene-Holocene geological record from the Quebrada Santa Julia archeological site in Chile (31 degrees 50'S) and on modern meteorological mechanisms producing alluvial episodes in this region indicates a major change in the rainfall regime shortly after 8600 cal yr BP. This, together with other paleoclimate proxies along the west coast of South America (34 degrees-14 degrees S). suggests La Nina-like conditions 13,000-8600 cal yr BP. Based on sedimentological and geomorphologic evidence, we hypothesized that the absence of heavy rainfall events in northern Chile and the new hydrological regime that prevailed ca. 8600-5700 cal yr BP in north-central Chile resulted from an increase in the large-scale westerly flow over central Chile, as expected in near-neutral ENSO conditions. This atmospheric circulation anomaly is compatible with an equatorward shift of the influence of the Southeast Pacific Subtropical Anticyclone relative to the early Holocene, prior to the onset of modern ENSO variability. (c) 2012 University of Washington. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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