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COMMUNICATIONS EARTH & ENVIRONMENT
卷 2, 期 1, 页码 -出版社
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DOI: 10.1038/s43247-021-00173-z
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- Max Planck Research Group
- CNPq [424365/2016-2]
- Wilhelm and Else Heraeus Foundation
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [INST 161/921-1 FUGG]
Analyzing sediments from Charyn Canyon, Kazakhstan, researchers found that late Cenozoic variation in Central Asian hydroclimate was driven by the interaction between mid-latitude westerlies and the Siberian high-pressure system, potentially leading to terrestrial feedbacks affecting ocean and atmospheric circulation, highlighting the significance of land-water feedbacks for long-term global climate.
Earth's climatic evolution over the last 5 million years is primarily understood from the perspective of marine mechanisms, however, the role of terrestrial feedbacks remains largely unexplored. Here we reconstruct the last 5 million years of soil moisture variability in Central Asia using paleomagnetism data and isotope geochemistry of an 80 m-thick sedimentary succession at Charyn Canyon, Kazakhstan. We identify a long-term trend of increasing aridification throughout the period, along with shorter-term variability related to the interaction between mid-latitude westerlies and the Siberian high-pressure system. This record highlights the long-term contribution of mid-latitude Eurasian terrestrial systems to the modulation of moisture transfer into the Northern Hemisphere oceans and back onto land via westerly air flow. The response of Earth-surface dynamics to Plio-Pleistocene climatic change in Central Asia likely generated terrestrial feedbacks affecting ocean and atmospheric circulation. This missing terrestrial link elucidates the significance of land-water feedbacks for long-term global climate. Late Cenozoic variation in Central Asian hydroclimate resulted from the interaction between mid-latitude westerlies and the Siberian high-pressure system and may have driven terrestrial feedbacks, according to analyses of sediments from Charyn Canyon, Kazakhstan.
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