期刊
JOURNAL OF ADVANCES IN MODELING EARTH SYSTEMS
卷 13, 期 10, 页码 -出版社
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1029/2021MS002648
关键词
water isotopes; hydrological cycle; CESM; water tracers; water cycle
资金
- NSF Climate and Large-Scale Dynamics award [1954663, 1954660]
- National Science Foundation
- National Center for Atmospheric Research - National Science Foundation [1852977]
- Directorate For Geosciences
- Div Atmospheric & Geospace Sciences [1954663, 1954660] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
The hydrologic cycle connects the Earth's energy and carbon budgets through evaporation, moisture transport, and precipitation. Fundamental limitations exist in deducing basic properties of the hydrological cycle, necessitating the development of new mechanistic tools. New tracer methods can provide more robust linkages between observations of isotope ratios in the modern hydrologic cycle or proxies of past terrestrial environments and the environmental processes underlying these observations.
The hydrologic cycle couples the Earth's energy and carbon budgets through evaporation, moisture transport, and precipitation. Despite a wealth of observations and models, fundamental limitations remain in our capacity to deduce even the most basic properties of the hydrological cycle, including the spatial pattern of the residence time (RT) of water in the atmosphere and the mean distance traveled from evaporation sources to precipitation sinks. Meanwhile, geochemical tracers such as stable water isotope ratios provide a tool to probe hydrological processes, yet their interpretation remains equivocal despite several decades of use. As a result, there is a need for new mechanistic tools that link variations in water isotope ratios to underlying hydrological processes. Here we present a new suite of process-oriented tags, which we use to explicitly trace hydrological processes within the isotopically enabled Community Atmosphere Model, version 6 (iCAM6). Using these tags, we test the hypotheses that precipitation isotope ratios respond to parcel rainout, variations in atmospheric RT, and preserve information regarding meteorological conditions during evaporation. We present results for a historical simulation from 1980 to 2004, forced with winds from the ERA5 reanalysis. We find strong evidence that precipitation isotope ratios record information about atmospheric rainout and meteorological conditions during evaporation, but little evidence that precipitation isotope ratios vary with water vapor RT. These new tracer methods will enable more robust linkages between observations of isotope ratios in the modern hydrologic cycle or proxies of past terrestrial environments and the environmental processes underlying these observations.
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