The climatic cyclicity in semiarid-arid central Asia over the past 500,000 years

Details The climatic cyclicity in semiarid-arid central Asia over the past 500,000 years The climatic cyclicity in semiarid-arid central Asia over the past 500,000 years

Jan 2012

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2012georl..3901705c&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 39, Issue 1, CiteID L01705

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Atmospheric Processes: Climate Change And Variability (1616, 1635, 3309, 4215, 4513), Atmospheric Processes: Paleoclimatology (0473, 4900), Atmospheric Processes: Precipitation (1854), Paleoceanography: Continental Climate Records

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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 (δ18O) 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 δ18O speleothem growth at times of high Northern Hemisphere summer insolation followed by gradual δ18O 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 δ18O 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.

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