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Solar forcing of early Holocene droughts on the Yucatán peninsula. Sci Rep 2021; 11:13885. [PMID: 34230539 PMCID: PMC8260582 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-93417-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/13/2021] [Accepted: 06/24/2021] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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A speleothem record from the north-eastern Yucatán peninsula (Mexico) provides new insights into the tropical hydro-climate of the Americas between 11,040 and 9520 a BP on up to sub-decadal scale. Despite the complex atmospheric reorganization during the end of the last deglaciation, the dominant internal leading modes of precipitation variability during the late Holocene were also active during the time of record. While multi-decadal variations were not persistent, Mesoamerican precipitation was dominated by changes on the decadal- and centennial scale, which may be attributed to ENSO activity driven by solar forcing. Freshwater fluxes from the remnant Laurentide ice sheet into the Gulf of Mexico and the North Atlantic have additionally modulated the regional evaporation/precipitation balance. In particular, this study underlines the importance of solar activity on tropical and subtropical climate variability through forcing of the tropical Pacific, providing a plausible scenario for observed recurrent droughts on the decadal scale throughout the Holocene.
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Yi S, Jun CP, Jo KN, Lee H, Kim MS, Lee SD, Cao X, Lim J. Asynchronous multi-decadal time-scale series of biotic and abiotic responses to precipitation during the last 1300 years. Sci Rep 2020; 10:17814. [PMID: 33082500 PMCID: PMC7576146 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-74994-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/18/2020] [Accepted: 10/06/2020] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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East Asian summer monsoon (EASM)-driven rapid hydroclimatic variation is a crucial factor with major socioeconomic impacts. Nevertheless, decadal- to centennial-scale EASM variability over the last two millennia is still poorly understood. Pollen-based quantitative annual precipitation (PqPann) and annual precipitation reconstructed by artificial neural networks (ANNs) for the period 650-1940 CE were reconstructed from a paleo-reservoir in South Korea. ANNs reconstruction was performed to compensate for a hiatus section. On a decadal timescale, 10 high-precipitation periods were identified, and PqPann and ANNs reconstructions were comparable to local instrumental rainfall and historic drought records. Biotic lags to rapid climatic changes ranging from 25 to 100 years were recognized by asynchronous pollen and speleothem responses to precipitation. We suggest that PqPann-based decadal- to centennial-scale climatic change reconstruction should take biotic lags into account, although the lags can be ignored on the millennial scale. The position of the EASM rainband influenced rainfall magnitude.
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- Sangheon Yi
- Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources, Daejeon, 34132, Korea.
- Korea University of Science and Technology (UST), Daejeon, 34113, Korea.
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- Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources, Daejeon, 34132, Korea.
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- Kangwon National University, Chuncheon, 24341, Korea
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- Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources, Daejeon, 34132, Korea
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- Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources, Daejeon, 34132, Korea
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- Nakdonggang National Institute of Biological Resources, Sangju, 37242, Korea
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- Key Laboratory of Alpine Ecolgoy, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Beijing, China
- CAS Center for Excellence in Tibetan Plateau Earth Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing, 100101, China
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- Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources, Daejeon, 34132, Korea
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Hellstrom J, Sniderman K, Drysdale R, Couchoud I, Hartland A, Pearson A, Bajo P. Speleothem growth intervals reflect New Zealand montane vegetation response to temperature change over the last glacial cycle. Sci Rep 2020; 10:2492. [PMID: 32051432 PMCID: PMC7015920 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-58317-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/22/2019] [Accepted: 01/09/2020] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Flowstone speleothem growth beneath Mount Arthur, New Zealand shows a clear relationship to vegetation density and soil development on the surface above. Flowstone does not currently form beneath sub-alpine Nothofagus forest above ca. 1000–1100 m altitude but U-Th dating shows it has formed there during past intervals of warmer-than-present conditions including an early–mid Holocene optimum and the last interglacial from ca. 131–119 ka. Some flowstones growing beneath ca. 600 m surface altitude, currently mantled with dense broadleaf-podocarp forest, grew during full glacial conditions, indicating that local tree line was never below this altitude. This implies that Last Glacial Maximum annual temperature was no more than ca. 4 °C cooler than today. Flowstone growth appears to be a robust indicator of dense surface vegetation and well-developed soil cover in this setting, and indicates that past interglacial climates of MIS 7e, 5e, the early–mid Holocene and possibly MIS 5a were more conducive to growth of trees than was the late Holocene, reflecting regional temperature changes similar in timing to Antarctic temperature changes. Here, flowstone speleothem growth is a sensitive indicator of vegetation density at high altitude, but may respond to other factors at lower altitudes.
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- John Hellstrom
- School of Earth Sciences, University of Melbourne, Victoria, 3010, Australia.
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- School of Earth Sciences, University of Melbourne, Victoria, 3010, Australia
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- School of Geography, University of Melbourne, Victoria, 3010, Australia.,Laboratoire EDYTEM, CNRS, Université Savoie Mont Blanc, Université Grenoble Alpes, Chambéry, France
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- School of Geography, University of Melbourne, Victoria, 3010, Australia.,Laboratoire EDYTEM, CNRS, Université Savoie Mont Blanc, Université Grenoble Alpes, Chambéry, France
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- Environmental Research Institute, School of Science, University of Waikato, Private Bag 3105, Hamilton, 3240, New Zealand
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- Environmental Research Institute, School of Science, University of Waikato, Private Bag 3105, Hamilton, 3240, New Zealand
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- Croatian Geological Survey, Sachsova 2, 10 000, Zagreb, Croatia
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Jo KN, Yi S, Lee JY, Woo KS, Cheng H, Edwards LR, Kim ST. 1000-Year Quasi-Periodicity of Weak Monsoon Events in Temperate Northeast Asia since the Mid-Holocene. Sci Rep 2017; 7:15196. [PMID: 29123205 PMCID: PMC5680219 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-15566-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/16/2016] [Accepted: 10/27/2017] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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The Holocene variability in the East Asian summer monsoon (EASM) based on speleothem δ18O records has inconsistencies in timing, duration, and expression of millennial-scale events among nearby regions, and even within the same cave. Here, we present another stalagmite δ18O record with multi-decadal time resolution from the temperate Korean Peninsula (KP) for the last 5500 years in order to compare with Holocene millennial-scale EASM events from Southeast Asia. Based on our new stalagmite δ18O record, millennial-scale events since the mid-Holocene were successfully identified in the KP, representing a noticeable cyclic pattern with a periodicity of around 1000 years. We propose that the Holocene millennial-scale events are common hydroclimatic phenomena at least in the East Asian monsoon system. Meanwhile, the shorter periodicity of millennial-scale events than that of the North Atlantic region is likely to decouple the EASM system from the North Atlantic climate system. This observation suggests that weak EASM and North Atlantic Bond events may have been induced independently by direct solar activity (and then possible feedback) and ocean–ice sheet dynamics, respectively, rather than simple propagation from the North Atlantic to the EASM regions.
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- Kyoung-Nam Jo
- Division of Geology and Geophysics, College of Natural Sciences, Kangwon National University, Chuncheon, Korea. .,Critical zone Frontier Research Laboratory (CFRL), Kangwon National University, Chuncheon, Korea.
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- Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources (KIGAM), Daejeon, Korea
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- Division of Geology and Geophysics, College of Natural Sciences, Kangwon National University, Chuncheon, Korea.,Critical zone Frontier Research Laboratory (CFRL), Kangwon National University, Chuncheon, Korea
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- Division of Geology and Geophysics, College of Natural Sciences, Kangwon National University, Chuncheon, Korea
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- Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA.,Institute of Global Environmental Change, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China
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- Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA
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- School of Geography and Earth Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
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Tropical rainfall over the last two millennia: evidence for a low-latitude hydrologic seesaw. Sci Rep 2017; 7:45809. [PMID: 28378755 PMCID: PMC5381098 DOI: 10.1038/srep45809] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/09/2016] [Accepted: 03/06/2017] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
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The presence of a low- to mid-latitude interhemispheric hydrologic seesaw is apparent over orbital and glacial-interglacial timescales, but its existence over the most recent past remains unclear. Here we investigate, based on climate proxy reconstructions from both hemispheres, the inter-hemispherical phasing of the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) and the low- to mid-latitude teleconnections in the Northern Hemisphere over the past 2000 years. A clear feature is a persistent southward shift of the ITCZ during the Little Ice Age until the beginning of the 19th Century. Strong covariation between our new composite ITCZ-stack and North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) records reveals a tight coupling between these two synoptic weather and climate phenomena over decadal-to-centennial timescales. This relationship becomes most apparent when comparing two precisely dated, high-resolution paleorainfall records from Belize and Scotland, indicating that the low- to mid-latitude teleconnection was also active over annual-decadal timescales. It is likely a combination of external forcing, i.e., solar and volcanic, and internal feedbacks, that drives the synchronous ITCZ and NAO shifts via energy flux perturbations in the tropics.
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Extensive wet episodes in Late Glacial Australia resulting from high-latitude forcings. Sci Rep 2017; 7:44054. [PMID: 31004127 PMCID: PMC5341032 DOI: 10.1038/srep44054] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/10/2016] [Accepted: 02/03/2017] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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Millennial-scale cooling events termed Heinrich Stadials punctuated Northern Hemisphere climate during the last glacial period. Latitudinal shifts of the intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ) are thought to have rapidly propagated these abrupt climatic signals southward, influencing the evolution of Southern Hemisphere climates and contributing to major reorganisation of the global ocean-atmosphere system. Here, we use neodymium isotopes from a marine sediment core to reconstruct the hydroclimatic evolution of subtropical Australia between 90 to 20 thousand years ago. We find a strong correlation between our sediment provenance proxy data and records for western Pacific tropical precipitations and Australian palaeolakes, which indicates that Northern Hemisphere cooling phases were accompanied by pronounced excursions of the ITCZ and associated rainfall as far south as about 32°S. Comparatively, however, each of these humid periods lasted substantially longer than the mean duration of Heinrich Stadials, overlapping with subsequent warming phases of the southern high-latitudes recorded in Antarctic ice cores. In addition to ITCZ-driven hydroclimate forcing, we infer that changes in Southern Ocean climate also played an important role in regulating late glacial atmospheric patterns of the Southern Hemisphere subtropical regions.
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Woo et al. reply. Nature 2015; 526:E2-3. [PMID: 26432255 DOI: 10.1038/nature14977] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Testing the mid-latitude hydrologic seesaw. Nature 2015; 526:E1-2. [PMID: 26432254 DOI: 10.1038/nature14976] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/12/2015] [Accepted: 08/13/2015] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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