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GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
卷 39, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL050202
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- Xi'an Jiaotong University [93K40208000004]
- U.S. NSF [0502535, 0908792, 1103403]
- NSFC [40631003, 40772110, 40973007]
- State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology, CAS [SKLLQG1001]
- Gary Comer Science and Education Foundation [CC8, CP52]
- Austrian Science Fund
- Directorate For Geosciences
- Division Of Earth Sciences [0908792] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Div Atmospheric & Geospace Sciences
- Directorate For Geosciences [1103403, 0502535] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
Central Asia is currently a semiarid-arid region, dominated by the Westerlies. It is important to understand mechanisms of climate and precipitation changes here, as water availability in the region is crucial today and in the future. High-resolution, absolutely-dated oxygen isotope (delta O-18) records of stalagmites from Kesang Cave characterize a dynamic precipitation history over most of the past 500,000 years. This record demonstrates, for the first time, that climate change in the region exhibits a processional rhythm with abrupt inceptions of low delta O-18 speleothem growth at times of high Northern Hemisphere summer insolation followed by gradual delta O-18 increases that track decreases of insolation. These observations and interpretations contrast with the interpretation of nearby, but higher elevation ice core records. The absolutely-dated cave delta O-18 shifts can be used to correlate the regional climate variability by providing chronological marks. Combined with other paleoclimate records, the Kesang observations suggest that possible incursions of Asian summer monsoon rainfall or related moisture into the Kesang site and/or adjacent areas during the high insolation times may play an important role in changing orbital-scale hydrology of the region. Based on our record, arid climate will prevail in this region for the next several millennia, providing that anthropogenic effects do not supersede natural processes. Citation: Cheng, H., P. Z. Zhang, C. Spotl, R. L. Edwards, Y. J. Cai, D. Z. Zhang, W. C. Sang, M. Tan, and Z. S. An (2012), The climatic cyclicity in semi-arid-arid central Asia over the past 500,000 years, Geophys. Res. Lett., 39, L01705, doi: 10.1029/2011GL050202.
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