期刊
EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS
卷 407, 期 -, 页码 187-195出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2014.09.021
关键词
stable isotopes; Andes; precipitation; convection; paleoaltimetry; TRMM satellite data
资金
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) [STR 373/32-1, MU2845/4-1]
- DFG-Leibniz Center for Surface Processes and Climate Studies at Universitat Potsdam, Germany [DFG 373/18-1]
- LOEWE funding program (Landes-Offensive zur Entwicklung wissenschaftlich-okonomischer Exzellenz) of Hesse's Ministry of Higher Education, Research, and the Arts
- DFG Emmy-Noether grant [SA1889/1-1]
Globally, changes in stable isotope ratios of oxygen and hydrogen (delta O-18 and delta D) in the meteoric water cycle result from distillation and evaporation processes. Isotope fractionation occurs when air masses rise in elevation, cool, and reduce their water-vapor holding capacity with decreasing temperature. As such, delta O-18 and delta D values from a variety of sedimentary archives are often used to reconstruct changes in continental paleohydrology as well as paleoaltimetry of mountain ranges. Based on 234 stream-water samples, we demonstrate that areas experiencing deep convective storms in the eastern southcentral Andes (22-28 degrees S) do not show the commonly observed relationship between delta O-18 and delta D with 'elevation. These convective storms arise from intermontane basins, where diurnal heating forces warm air masses upward, resulting in cloudbursts and raindrop evaporation. Especially at the boundary between the tropical and extra-tropical atmospheric circulation regimes where deep-convective storms are very common (similar to 26 degrees to 32 degrees N and S), the impact of such storms may yield non-systematic stable isotope-elevation relationships as convection dominates over adiabatic lifting of air masses. Because convective storms can reduce or mask the depletion of heavy isotopes in precipitation as a function of elevation, linking modern or past topography to patterns of stable isotope proxy records can be compromised in mountainous regions, and atmospheric circulation models attempting to predict stable isotope patterns must have sufficiently high spatial resolution to capture the fractionation dynamics of convective cells. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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