MM5 Simulations of the China Regional Climate During the LGM.Ⅰ: Influence of CO2 and Earth Orbit Change          下载免费PDF全文

LIU yu  HE Jinhai  LI Weiliang  CHEN Longxun 《Acta Meteorologica Sinica》2008,22(1)

Using a regional climate model MM5 nested to an atmospheric global climate model CCM3, a series of simulations and sensitivity experiments have been performed to investigate the relative Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) climate response to different mechanisms over China. Model simulations of the present day (PD) climate and the LGM climate change are in good agreement with the observation data and geological records, especially in the simulation of precipitation change. Under the PD and LGM climate, changes of earth orbital parameters have a small influence on the annual mean temperature over China.However, the magnitude of the effect shows a seasonal pattern, with a significant response in winter. Thus,this influence cannot be neglected. During the LGM, CO2 concentration reached its lowest point to 200 ppmv. This results in a temperature decrease over China. The influences of CO2 concentration on climate show seasonal and regional patterns as well, with a significant influence in winter. On the contrary, CO2concentration has less impact in summer season. In some cases, temperature even increases with decreasing in CO2 concentration. This temperature increase is the outcome of decrease in cloud amount; hence increase the solar radiation that reached the earth's surface. This result suggests that cloud amount plays a very important role in climate change and could direct the response patterns of some climate variables such as temperature during certain periods and over certain regions. In the Tibetan Plateau, the temperature responses to changes of the above two factors are generally weaker than those in other regions because the cloud amount in this area is generally more than in the other areas. Relative to the current climate, changes in orbital parameters have less impact on the LGM climate than changes in CO2 concentration. However,both factors have rather less contributions to the climate change in the LGM. About 3%-10% changes in the annual mean temperature are contributed by CO2.  相似文献   

Tracing long‐term tropical montane ecosystem change in the Eastern Arc Mountains of Tanzania          下载免费PDF全文

MATTHEW WOOLLER  ROB MARCHANT 《第四纪科学杂志》2014,29(3):269-278

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LGM lake records from China and an analysis of climate dynamics using a modelling approach   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Ge Yu  Bin Xue  Jian Liu  Xing Chen 《Global and Planetary Change》2003,38(3-4):223-256

Lake-geological studies in China have reported that there were much higher lake levels and much fresher water than today at the last glacial maximum (LGM) in western China. A compilation of lake data in this study showed LGM conditions much drier than today in eastern China but somewhat wetter in western China. These E–W differential patterns of climate conditions were completely different from the modern dry-wet conditions with a N–S differential distribution. In this study palaeoclimate simulations by an AGCM coupled with land surface process model were used to explore the possible mechanisms of LGM climate in China. The results confirmed that the dry conditions in eastern China resulted from less summer precipitation due to the Pacific Subtropical High occupying eastern China and the decline in the summer monsoon. The wet conditions in western China were produced by a decrease in evaporation due to a low temperature on land surface at the LGM and increase in precipitation. Two experiments of the palaeoclimate simulations with different land surface of modern and palaeo-vegetations have been designed to test the discrepancies of simulated LGM climate with in precipitation and P–E fields. The results suggested that the feedback from the Asian land surface within the climate system would amplify and modify external forcing, leading to marked climate changes in China.  相似文献   

An assessment of variations in mercury deposition to Antarctica over the past 34,000 years     

尹雪斌  孙立广  谢周清 《极地研究(英文版)》2003,14(2)

We performed a comparison analysis of the variations .in Mercury ( Hg) concentrations and the precipitation proxies ( e. g. , 18 O values and 10 Be concentrations) in the Dome C ice core. The results showed that there were significant correlations between Hg and δ 10O values, 10Be concentrations, indicating that the accumulation rate in Dome C is one of the key factors controlling the variations of Hg concentrations in the past 34 ,000 years, and implying that Hg concentrations in ice core can be used as another reliable proxy of precipitation rate in Antarctica. Based upon the high-resolution δ 18O values, we estimated the variations in mercury deposition flux to Antarctica over the past 34,000 years. The highest mercury deposition flux is about 3. 80 pg cm-2 yr-1 during the Last Glacial Maxium (LGM) as high as 3. 5 times of the mercury deposition flux ( about 1. 08 pg cm -2 yr -1) in Holocene due to the fluctuations in natural mercury emissions such as the oceanic biological emissions.  相似文献   

青藏高原末次盛冰期和全新世大暖期多年冻土边界变化的探讨   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

焦世晖  王凌越  孙才奇  易朝路  崔之久  刘耕年 《第四纪研究》2015,35(1)

位于中低纬的青藏高原多年冻土是第四纪高原隆升和冰期气候叠加的产物,与高纬多年冻土相比,具有厚度薄和不稳定的特点,对全球变化反应敏感.因此,评价冰期-间冰期多年冻土扩张-收缩过程和其范围重建,是研究高原环境变化的重要工作.本文依据青藏高原及周边地区温度数据和《中国冰川冻土沙漠图》,对青藏高原现代大片多年冻土、岛状多年冻土和高山多年冻土分布进行恢复.依据来自冰川、冰缘和湖泊等证据,采用末次盛冰期气温较现代低7℃,全新世大暖期气温较现代高4℃,进行末次盛冰期和全新世大暖期多年冻土分布重建.重建结果表明:末次盛冰期多年冻土扩张明显,面积约为现代冻土面积的195％;末次盛冰期大片多年冻土几乎覆盖整个高原,岛状多年冻土向东扩张明显,向西范围逐渐收缩变窄,高山多年冻土在喜马拉雅山、祁连山和横断山脉等地区扩张明显.全新世大暖期多年冻土明显收缩,面积是现代多年冻土的73％;大片多年冻土收缩幅度较小,岛状多年冻土在高原东南部收缩明显,高山多年冻土在喜马拉雅山脉、祁连山脉、横断山脉等高海拔山地发育.  相似文献   

敦煌伊塘湖沉积物有机碳同位素揭示的末次盛冰期以来湖面变化   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

赵丽媛  鹿化煜  张恩楼  王晓勇  弋双文  陈英勇  张红艳  吴波 《第四纪研究》2015,35(1)

对甘肃敦煌伊塘湖沉积物进行了野外钻探采样,采用光释光测年技术确定了沉积物的年代,测定了总有机碳含量(TOC)、碳氮比(TOC/TN)和有机质稳定碳同位素组成(δ13℃org)等环境代用指标.结果表明,23ka至今,湖区沉积物δ13℃org在-27.84‰～-22.86‰之间变化,可与TOC对比.干旱气候条件下湖泊沉积物的δ13℃org变化主要受到沉水植物和挺水植物含量变化的控制,生长于较深水的沉水植物δ13Corg值偏正,而生长于较浅水的挺水植物δ13℃org值偏负;另外,部分时期有外源陆生植物产生的有机质输入,影响沉积物的碳同位素值.总体上,干旱区湖相沉积物δ13Crg值可指示湖水面的变化、间接指示气候干湿变化.δ13Corg变化的时间序列显示出明显的冰期-间冰期变化,从末次盛冰期到全新世暖期可将伊塘湖的环境演化分为4个阶段:23～ 13ka是一个气候不稳定时期,整体呈冷干并且湖面水位偏低,但后期有转暖的趋势;13～9ka为冰期向全新世暖期的过渡阶段;9～5ka整体湖面水位偏高、气候暖湿,含有短时间的干事件;5ka至今有变干的趋势.23ka以来,伊塘湖区的湖泊环境演化受全球大气环流与水汽输送路径控制.  相似文献   

MM5 Simulations of the China Regional Climate During the LGM.II: In uence of Change of Land Area, Vegetation, and Large-scale Circulation Background          下载免费PDF全文

LIU Yu  HE Jinhai  LI Weiliang  CHEN Longxun 《Acta Meteorologica Sinica》2008,22(1):22-30

Using a regional climate model MM5 nested to an atmospheric global climate model CCM3, a series of simulations and sensitivity experiments have been performed to investigate the relative LGM climate response to changes of land-sea distribution, vegetation, and large-scale circulation background over China.Model results show that compared with the present climate, the fluctuations of sea-land distribution in eastern Asia during the LGM result in the temperature decrease in winter and increase in summer. It has significant impact on the temperature and precipitation in the east coastal region of China. The impact on precipitation in the east coastal region of China is the most significant one, with 25%-50% decrease in the total precipitation change during the LGM. On the other hand, the changes in sea-land distribution have less influence on the climate of inland and western part of China. During the LGM, significant changes in vegetation result in temperature alternating with winter increase and summer decrease, but differences in the annual mean temperature are minor. During the LGM, the global climate, i.e., the large-scale circulation background has changed signi cantly. These changes have signi cant influences on temperature and precipitation over China. They result in considerable temperature decreases in this area, and direct the primary patterns and characteristics of temperature changes. Results display that, northeastern China has the greatest temperature decrease, and the temperature decrease in the Tibetan Plateau is larger than in the eastern part of China located at the same latitude. Moreover, the change of large-scale circulation background also controls the pattern of precipitation change. Results also show that, most of the changes in precipitation over western and northeastern parts of China are the consequences of changing large-scale circulation background, of which 50%-75% of precipitation changes over northern and eastern China are the results of changes in large-scale circulation background. Over China, the LGM climate responses to di erent mechanisms in order of strength from strong to weak are, the large-scale circulation pattern, sealand distribution, vegetation, CO2 concentration, and earth orbital parameters.  相似文献   

Marine geophysical evidence for former expansion and flow of the Greenland Ice Sheet across the north‐east Greenland continental shelf     

Jeffrey Evans  Colm Ó Cofaigh  Julian A. Dowdeswell  Peter Wadhams 《第四纪科学杂志》2009,24(3):279-293

High‐resolution swath bathymetry and TOPAS sub‐bottom profiler acoustic data from the inner and middle continental shelf of north‐east Greenland record the presence of streamlined mega‐scale glacial lineations and other subglacial landforms that are formed in the surface of a continuous soft sediment layer. The best‐developed lineations are found in Westwind Trough, a bathymetric trough connecting Nioghalvfjerdsfjorden Gletscher and Zachariae Isstrøm to the continental shelf edge. The geomorphological and stratigraphical data indicate that the Greenland Ice Sheet covered the inner‐middle shelf in north‐east Greenland during the most recent ice advance of the Late Weichselian glaciation. Earlier sedimentological and chronological studies indicated that the last major delivery of glacigenic sediment to the shelf and Fram Strait was prior to the Holocene during Marine Isotope Stage 2, supporting our assertion that the subglacial landforms and ice sheet expansion in north‐east Greenland occurred during the Late Weichselian. Glacimarine sediment gravity flow deposits found on the north‐east Greenland continental slope imply that the ice sheet extended beyond the middle continental shelf, and supplied subglacial sediment direct to the shelf edge with subsequent remobilisation downslope. These marine geophysical data indicate that the flow of the Late Weichselian Greenland Ice Sheet through Westwind Trough was in the form of a fast‐flowing palaeo‐ice stream, and that it provides the first direct geomorphological evidence for the former presence of ice streams on the Greenland continental shelf. The presence of streamlined subglacially derived landforms and till layers on the shallow AWI Bank and Northwind Shoal indicates that ice sheet flow was not only channelled through the cross‐shelf bathymetric troughs but also occurred across the shallow intra‐trough regions of north‐east Greenland. Collectively these data record for the first time that ice streams were an important glacio‐dynamic feature that drained interior basins of the Late Weichselian Greenland Ice Sheet across the adjacent continental margin, and that the ice sheet was far more extensive in north‐east Greenland during the Last Glacial Maximum than the previous terrestrial–glacial reconstructions showed. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.  相似文献   

Quaternary deformations along the ‘Engadine–Gruf tectonic system’, Swiss–Italian Alps     

Alessandro Tibaldi  Federico A. Pasquarè 《第四纪科学杂志》2008,23(5):475-487

The Engadine Line (EL) is a seismically active fault in southeastern Switzerland. In the field we studied its western segment, presently not affected by seismicity but characterised by features suggesting neotectonic motions, and the coterminous Gruf Line. Uphill‐ and downhill‐facing scarps, offset rivers, non‐equilibrium hydrological conditions and aligned deep‐seated gravitational slope deformations are dominant in the western sector of the EL in the Inn Valley. Landform offsets and the most recent fault striations point to oblique left‐lateral strike‐slip. Close to the EL, at the Maloja Pass, a huge collapse beheaded the Inn Valley. Trench excavation with palaeoseismic analysis, stratigraphic correlations of Quaternary deposits and optically stimulated luminescence dating indicate that the collapse and faulting mostly occurred in the Late Pleistocene. In the Bregaglia Valley, the Gruf Line stretches along the southwestern extension of the EL. Six deep‐seated gravitational slope deformations developed along the Gruf Line and were dated to pre‐ and post‐Last Glacial Maximum times. We suggest that the western sector of the EL moved also in a Pleistocene time interval during which tectonic forces in the area were probably larger than at present, favouring local uplift, widespread gravity deformation, and retrogressive slope failure at the Inn Valley head. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.  相似文献   

Paleoclimate simulations of the mid-Holocene and last glacial maximum by FGOALS     

郑伟鹏  俞永强 《大气科学进展》2013,30(3):684-698

Paleoclimate simulations of the mid-Holocene (MH) and Last Glacial maximum (LGM) by the latest versions of the Flexible Global Ocean-Atmosphere-Land System model, Spectral Version 2 and Grid-point Version 2 (FGOALS-s2 and g2) are evaluated in this study. The MH is characterized by changes of insolation induced by orbital parameters, and the LGM is a glacial period with large changes in greenhouse gases, sea level and ice sheets. For the MH, both versions of FGOALS simulate reasonable responses to the changes of insolation, such as the enhanced summer monsoon in African-Asian regions. Model differences can be identified at regional and seasonal scales. The global annual mean surface air temperature (TAS) shows no significant change in FGOALS-s2, while FGOALS-g2 shows a global cooling of about 0.7 C that is related with a strong cooling during boreal winter. The amplitude of ENSO is weaker in FGOALS-g2, which agrees with proxy data. For the LGM, FGOALS-g2 captures the features of the cold and dry glacial climate, including a global cooling of 4.6 C and a decrease in precipitation by 10%. The ENSO is weaker at the LGM, with a tendency of stronger ENSO cold events. Sensitivity analysis shows that the Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity (ECS) estimated for FGOALS ranges between 4.23 C and 4.59 C. The sensitivity of precipitation to the changes of TAS is～2.3% C-1 , which agrees with previous studies. FGOALS-g2 shows better simulations of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) and African summer monsoon precipitation in the MH when compared with FGOALS-g1.0; however, it is hard to conclude any improvements for the LGM.  相似文献