Eccentricity cycles shown by early Pleistocene planktonic foraminifers of the Omma Formation, Sea of Japan     

Akihisa Kitamura  Katsunori Kimoto 《Global and Planetary Change》2007,55(4):273-283

There is a continuous record of planktonic foraminifers for oxygen isotope stages 50 to 26 (ca. 1.5–1.0 Ma) in the early Pleistocene Omma Formation near Kanazawa City, Central Japan, on the Sea of Japan coast. The warm-water species Globigerinoides ruber entered the Sea of Japan with the Tsushima Current during all interglacial periods and went locally extinct in the succeeding glacial periods. This implies that the marine climate of the Sea of Japan varied predominantly with the 41,000-year period of Earth's orbital obliquity. However, the relative abundances of G. ruber in marine isotope stages 47, 43 and 31 are significantly higher than those in other interglacial stages. These stages correspond to periods when eccentricity-modulated precession extremes were aligned with obliquity maxima. The Tsushima Current is a branch of the warm Kuroshio Current which is the strong northwestern component of the subtropical North Pacific Ocean gyre. Our data imply that the early Pleistocene climate in the northwestern Pacific was influenced not only by obliquity cycles but also by eccentricity cycles. This study also supports the climate model regarding eccentricity's role in the origin of low-frequency climate changes before the late Pleistocene ice ages.  相似文献   

Changes of environments and human activity at the Sannai-Maruyama ruins in Japan during the mid-Holocene Hypsithermal climatic interval     

Hodaka Kawahata  Hisashi Yamamoto  Ken'ichi Ohkushi  Yusuke Yokoyama  Katsunori Kimoto  Hideki Ohshima  Hiroyuki Matsuzaki 《Quaternary Science Reviews》2009,28(9-10):964-974

Sannai-Maruyama is one of the most famous and best-researched mid-Holocene (mid-Jomon) archaeological sites in Japan, because of a large community of people for a long period. Archaeological studies have shown that the Jomon people inhabi1ted the Sannai-Maruyama site from 5.9 to 4.2 ± 0.1 cal kyr BP However, a continuous record of the terrestrial and marine environments around the site has not been available. Core KT05-7 PC-02, was recovered from Mutsu Bay, only 20 km from the site, for the reconstruction of high-resolution time series of environmental records, including sea surface temperature (SST). C₃₇ alkenone SSTs showed clear fluctuations, with four periods of high (8.4–7.9, 7.0–5.9, 5.1–4.1, and 2.3–1.4 cal kyr BP) and four of low (?8.4, 7.9–7.0, 5.9–5.1, and 4.1–2.3 cal kyr BP) SST. Thus, each SST cycle lasted 1.0–2.0 kyr, and the amplitude of fluctuation was about 1.5–2.0 °C. Total organic carbon (TOC) and C₃₇ alkenone contents, and the TOC/total nitrogen ratio indicate that marine biogenic production was low before 7.0 cal kyr BP, but was clearly increased between 5.9 and 4.0 cal kyr BP, because of stronger vertical mixing. During the period when the community at the site prospered (between 5.9 and 4.2 ± 0.1 cal kyr BP), the terrestrial climate was relatively warm. The high relative abundance of pollen of both Castanea and Quercus subgen. Cyclobalanopsis supports the interpretation that the local climate was optimal for human habitation. Between 5.9 and 5.1 cal kyr BP, in spite of warm terrestrial climates, the C₃₇ alkenone SST was low; this apparent discrepancy may be attributed to the water column structure in the Tsugaru Strait, which differed from the modern condition. The evidence suggests that at about 5.9 cal kyr B.P, high productivity of marine resources such as fish and shellfish and a warm terrestrial climate led to the establishment of a human community at the Sannai-Maruyama site. Then, at about 4.1 ± 0.1 cal kyr BP, abrupt marine and terrestrial cooling, indicated by a decrease of about 2 °C in the C₃₇ alkenone SST and an increase in the pollen of taxa of cooler climates, led to a reduced terrestrial food supply, causing the people to abandon the site. The timing of the abandonment is consistent with the timing (around 4.0–4.3 cal kyr BP) of the decline of civilizations in north Mesopotamia and along the Yangtze River. These findings suggest that a temperature rise of ～2 °C in this century as a result of global warming could have a great impact on the human community and especially on agriculture, despite the advances of contemporary society.  相似文献   

Simulating tropical instability waves in the equatorial eastern Pacific with a coupled general circulation model     

陈鲜艳 《大气科学进展》2009,26(5):1015-1026

Satellite observations of SSTs have revealed the existence of unstable waves in the equatorial eastern Pacific and Atlantic oceans. These waves have a 20-40-day periodicity with westward phase speeds of 0.4-0.6 m s-1 and wavelengths of 1000-2000 km during boreal summer and fall. They are generally called tropical instability waves (TIWs). This study investigates TIWs simulated by a high-resolution coupled atmosphere-ocean general circulation model (AOGCM). The horizontal resolution of the model is 120 km in...  相似文献   

Simulation of state-dependent high-frequency atmospheric variability associated with ENSO   总被引：1，自引：1，他引：0  

Jong-Seong Kug  K. P. Sooraj  Daehyun Kim  In-Sik Kang  Fei-Fei Jin  Yukari N. Takayabu  Masahide Kimoto 《Climate Dynamics》2009,32(5):635-648

High-frequency atmospheric variability depends on the phase of El Nino/Southern Oscillation (ENSO). Recently, there is increasing evidence that state-dependent high-frequency atmospheric variability significantly modulates ENSO characteristics. Hence, in this study, we examine the model simulations of high-frequency atmospheric variability and, further, its dependency on the El Nino phase, using atmospheric and coupled GCMs (AGCM and CGCM). We use two versions of physical packages here—with and without convective momentum transport (CMT)—in both models. We found that the CMT simulation gives rise to a large climatological zonal wind difference over the Pacific. Also, both the climate models show a significantly improved performance in simulating the state-dependent noise when the CMT parameterization is implemented. We demonstrate that the better simulation of the state-dependent noise results from a better representation of anomalous, as well as climatological, zonal wind. Our further comparisons between the simulations, demonstrates that low-frequency wind is a crucial factor in determining the state-dependency of high-frequency wind variability. Therefore, it is suggested that the so-called state-dependent noise is directly induced by the low-frequency wind anomaly, which is caused by SST associated with ENSO.  相似文献   

STOIC: a study of coupled model climatology and variability in tropical ocean regions   总被引：13，自引：4，他引：13  

M. Davey  M. Huddleston  K. Sperber  P. Braconnot  F. Bryan  D. Chen  R. Colman  C. Cooper  U. Cubasch  P. Delecluse  D. DeWitt  L. Fairhead  G. Flato  C. Gordon  T. Hogan  M. Ji  M. Kimoto  A. Kitoh  T. Knutson  M. Latif  H. Le Treut  T. Li  S. Manabe  C. Mechoso  G. Meehl  S. Power  E. Roeckner  L. Terray  A. Vintzileos  R. Voss  B. Wang  W. Washington  I. Yoshikawa  J. Yu  S. Yukimoto  S. Zebiak 《Climate Dynamics》2002,18(5):403-420

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57Fe mössbauer study of clinopyroxenes in the join CaFe3+ AlSiO6 - CaTiAl2O6     

Masahide Akasaka 《Physics and Chemistry of Minerals》1983,9(5):205-211

Synthetic clinopyroxenes of compositions between CaFe³⁺AlSiO₆ and CaFe _0.85 ³⁺ Ti_0.15Al_1.15Si_0.85O₆ have been studied by ⁵⁷Fe Mössbauer spectroscopy. The spectra consist of two doublets assigned to Fe³⁺ in M1 and T sites. From the area ratios of the doublets the site occupancies of Fe³⁺ and Al were determined. Si decreases from 1.00 to 0.85 and Al+Fe³⁺ increases from 1.00 to 1.15 per formula unit with increasing CaTiAl₂O₆ component of the clinopyroxene. The atomic ratio of Fe³⁺(T)/Fe³⁺(total) is 0.11–0.16; 4.5–7.5 percent of the T sites are occupied by Fe³⁺. Thus the presence of Si-O-Fe³⁺, Al-O-Fe³⁺, and Fe³⁺-O-Fe³⁺ bonds is expected in addition to Si-O-Si, Si-O-Al and Al-O-Al bonds. However, the possibility of the former bonds being present would be small, because the amount of Fe³⁺(T) is far less than that of Si and Al. The isomer shift of Fe³⁺(T) is one of the largest in the values found previously for Fe³⁺(T) in silicates. It increases with increasing CaTiAl₂O₆ component and seems to be correlated to the ionic character of the cation — anion bonds calculated from electronegativity. The quadrupole splittings of Fe³⁺(M1) and Fe³⁺(T) decrease with the substitution of Fe³⁺?Ti⁴⁺ in the M1 and of Si?Al in the T sites.  相似文献   

Biological organic carbon export estimated from the annual carbon budget observed in the surface waters of the western subarctic and subtropical North Pacific Ocean from 2004 to 2013     

Masahide Wakita  Makio C. Honda  Kazuhiko Matsumoto  Tetsuichi Fujiki  Hajime Kawakami  Sayaka Yasunaka  Yoshikazu Sasai  Chiho Sukigara  Mario Uchimiya  Minoru Kitamura  Toru Kobari  Yoshihisa Mino  Akira Nagano  Shuichi Watanabe  Toshiro Saino 《Journal of Oceanography》2016,72(5):665-685

The annual flux of biologically produced organic carbon from surface waters is equivalent to annual net community production (NCP) at a steady state and equals the export of particulate and dissolved organic carbon (POC and DOC, respectively) to the ocean interior. NCP was estimated from carbon budgets of salinity-normalized dissolved inorganic carbon (nDIC) inventories at two time-series stations in the western subarctic (K2) and subtropical (S1) North Pacific Ocean. By using quasi-monthly biogeochemical observations from 2004 to 2013, monthly mean nDIC inventories were integrated from the surface to the annual maximum mixed layer depth and corrected for changes due to net air–sea CO₂ exchange, net CaCO₃ production, vertical diffusion from the upper thermocline, and horizontal advection. The annual organic carbon flux at K2 (1.49 ± 0.42 mol m^?2 year^?1) was lower than S1 (2.81 ± 0.53 mol m^?2 year^?1) (p < 0.001 based on t test). These fluxes consist of three components: vertically exported POC fluxes (K2: 1.43 mol m^?2 year^?1; S1: 2.49 mol m^?2 year^?1), vertical diffusive DOC fluxes (K2: 0.03 mol m^?2 year^?1; S1: 0.25 mol m^?2 year^?1), and suspended POC fluxes (K2: 0.03 mol m^?2 year^?1; S1: 0.07 mol m^?2 year^?1). The estimated POC export flux at K2 was comparable to the sum of the POC flux observed with drifting sediment traps and active carbon flux exported by migrating zooplankton. The export fluxes at both stations were higher than those reported at other time-series sites (ALOHA, the Bermuda Atlantic Time-series Study, and Ocean Station Papa).  相似文献   

Comparison of sinking particles in the upper 200 m between subarctic station K2 and subtropical station S1 based on drifting sediment trap experiments     

Makio C. Honda  Hajime Kawakami  Kazuhiko Matsumoto  Masahide Wakita  Tetsuichi Fujiki  Yoshihisa Mino  Chiho Sukigara  Toru Kobari  Mario Uchimiya  Ryo Kaneko  Toshiro Saino 《Journal of Oceanography》2016,72(3):373-386

Drifting sediment trap experiments were conducted during various seasons to elucidate the characteristics of particles sinking through the upper 200 m of the water column in the western Pacific at subarctic station K2 and subtropical station S1. The sinking particle flux increased when primary productivity was high at each station, during June–July at K2 and during February at S1. Biogenic opal (Opal) and CaCO₃ were the major components of the fluxes at K2 and S1, respectively. Contrary to the expectation of a high flux at the eutrophic station K2 and low flux at the oligotrophic station S1, the annual average organic carbon fluxes at 100 m were comparable at both stations: 62.7 mg C m^?2 day^?1 at K2 and 56.1 mg C m^?2 day^?1 at S1. The similarity of the fluxes was perhaps a reflection of the unexpectedly high primary production at S1. At K2, the organic carbon export ratio (organic carbon flux/primary productivity) was significantly and negatively correlated with primary production and tended to decrease with depth. The magnitude of the rate of attenuation of the organic carbon flux with depth was larger at S1 than at K2. This rate of attenuation tended to decrease and increase with primary production at K2 and S1, respectively. The explanation for these patterns may be that the flux of labile organic carbon at relatively shallow depths decreased with increasing primary production at K2, and zooplankton grazing pressure increased with increasing primary productivity at S1.  相似文献   

Insight into nitrous oxide production processes in the western North Pacific based on a marine ecosystem isotopomer model   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

Chisato Yoshikawa  Hitomi Abe  Maki N. Aita  Florian Breider  Keichi Kuzunuki  Sakae Toyoda  Nanako O. Ogawa  Hisami Suga  Naohiko Ohkouchi  Sebastian O. Danielache  Masahide Wakita  Makio C. Honda  Naohiro Yoshida 《Journal of Oceanography》2016,72(3):491-508

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Seasonal variability of phytoplankton community structure in the subtropical western North Pacific     

Tetsuichi Fujiki  Kosei Sasaoka  Kazuhiko Matsumoto  Masahide Wakita  Yoshihisa Mino 《Journal of Oceanography》2016,72(3):343-358

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