Since 40 kaBP, the current endorheism on the Tibetan Plateau had experienced at least four lake-explanding events, at 40-28 kaBP, 19-15 kaBP, 13-11 kaBP, 9.0-5.0 kaBP, respectively. The 40-28 kaBP and 9.0-5.0 kaBP lake-expanding events, corresponding to the global warming periods, were mainly determined by the abundant summer monsoon rainfall brought by strong Indian monsoon, aroused by enhanced solar radiation at earth orbital precessional cycle. The 40-28 kaBP lake-expanding event, also called the great lake period or the pan-lake period, for several great lake groups had come into being by the interconnection of the presently isolated and closed lake catchments. The total lake area over the Tibetan Plateau was estimated at least up to 150000 km2, 3.8 times of the present, and the lake supply coefficients were about 3–10. The 9.0-5.0 kaBP lake-expanding, with a total lake area of 68000 km2, less than the above mentioned reflected the Indian monsoon rainfall less than that of 40-28 kaBP. The expanded lakes at 19-15 kaBP and 13-11 kaBP, distributed in these basins with more or less existing glacial, indicated plenty of glacial meltwater discharged to balance evaporation on expansive lake surface. At the same time, the enhanced precipitation by the westerlies at 19-15 kaBP and by Indian monsoon at 13-11 kaBP plays an important role in maintaining the high lake level. Heinrich events greatly affected the evolution of climate system over the Tibetan Plateau, and thus gave a clear boundary of the high lake level change in the late Quaternary.
The paper analyzes the relation between δ18O and temperature and precipitation in different regions of the world on the basis of the data from the global observational
network set by the International Atomic Energy Agency (I-AEA) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). The results
show that there is the marked positive correlation between δ18O and temperature in the mid-high latitude continent regions, and the marked negative correlation between δ18O and precipitation in the mid-low-latitude ocean and coast stations. 相似文献
The climatic and environmental variations since the Last Interglaciation are reconstructed based on the study of the upper
268 m of the 309-m-long Guliya ice core. Five stages can be distinguished since the Last Interglaciation from the δ18O record in the Guliya ice core: Stage 1 (Deglaciation), Stage2 (the Last Glacial Maximum), Stage 3 (interstadial), Stage
4 (interstadial in the early glacial maximum) and Stage 5 (the Last Interglaciation). Stage 5 can be divided further into
5 substages; a, b, c, d, e. The δ18O record in the Guliya ice core indicates clearly the close correlation between the temperature variation on the Tibetan Plateau
and the solar activities. The study indicates that the solar activity is a main forcing to the climatic variation on the Tibetan
Plateau. Through a comparison of the ice core record in Guliya with that in the Greenland and the Antarctic, it can be found
that the variation of large temperature variation events in different parts of the world is generally the same, but the variation
amplitude of temperature is different.
Project supported by thc Climbing Program of the State Eighth Five-Year Plan and the National Natural Science Foundation of
China. 相似文献
Former shorelines and sedimentary records from several lake basins in northwestern China (Xinjiang, Qinghai) give evidence for warm and humid climatic conditions during 40–30 ka BP. Further indications of this favorable climate period are derived from palaeosols from the Ili loess and from cemented calcareous layers on the terraces of the Keriya River at the southern margin of the Tarim Basin and in the Badain Jaran Desert in Inner Mongolia. At that time, annual mean temperature in the Qaidam Basin was 2 °C higher and in the western part of Inner Mongolia even 2–3 °C higher than today. Precipitation in most parts of northwestern China was between 60–300 mm greater than today. These changes were probably a consequence of an increase in ocean surface temperature and evaporation resulting from a higher radiation input at middle and low latitudes caused by changes in the Earth's precessional cycle. As a result of these orbital changes, it is suggested that the intensified westerly circulation was responsible for increased moisture over northwestern China. 相似文献
The high-resolution records of δ18O and snow accumulation variations from the Guliya ice core provide valuable data for research on climatic variations at a decadal resolution during the past 2000 years in China. Based on the ice core data, five spells have been divided: the warm and wet period before 270 AD, the cold and dry period between 280 and 970 AD, the moderate and dry period between 970 and 1510 AD, the well-defined” Little Ice Age “with drastic cold-warm fluctuations between 1510 and 1930 AD and the warming period since 1930 AD. According to the combination of temperature and precipitation, cold events (55 times) surpass warm ones (26 times), and dry events (55 times) slupass wet ones (45 times). Cold-wet events (14 times) are less than cold-dry ones (16 times), while warm-wet events (10 times) are more than warm-dry ones (4 times). If the difference of2%c in δ18O (corresponding to 3K in temperature) between two or three adjacent decades is taken as the criterion of it, the abrupt change has taken place 33 times or so since the 3rd century. Among them are four large ones, occurring in 250–280, 550–580, 1220–1260, and 1520–1560 AD respectively. Comparison of the ice core data with the latest comprehensive research results on historical documents of East China shows that the great climatic events appeared simultaneously or at the same age in the ice core record and in the documentary data, suggesting that consistences and similarities in climatic variation among different areas are far away from each other in the lower to mid-latitudes. However, there is a great difference between them during the Medieval Warm Period, which is conspicuous in the historical documents but not in the ice core. In addition, the first cold event of the Little Ice Age on East China was 60 years earlier than that of the Guliya Ice Cap, when the degree of cwling in West China is more intensive than that of East China. But the third cold event in East China lagged behind that in West China during the late 19th century. The 1820s cold event in both West and East China may be caused by the magnificent Tambora volcanic eruption in 1815 相似文献