Reconstructed moisture evolution of the deserts in northern China since the Last Glacial Maximum and its implications for the East Asian Summer Monsoon

Qin, Li; Wu, Haibin; Yu, Yanyan; Sun, Anyang; Marković, Slobodan B.; Guo, Zhengtang

doi:10.1016/j.gloplacha.2014.07.009

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“…Hence, the geomorphological processes and thus local accumulation and erosion exerted a much higher influence on the resulting sedimentary sequences than climatic variability. Nevertheless, it is highlighted that the late glacial-Holocene transition represents a dramatic shift in climatic conditions (Felauer et al, 2012;Li et al, 2014) on a supraregional spatial scale, which caused high fluvial transport capacity in the Qilian Shan foreland.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Ages of aeolian sand point to accumulation of B3 sand during the late glacial. Late glacial to early Holocene aeolian sand activity is commonly observed in northern Chinese deserts as well as on the northeastern Tibetan Plateau (e.g., Mason et al, 2009;Li et al, 2014;Stauch et al, 2014). In a higher stratigraphic position, B2 yields early to midHolocene ages.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…These were investigated in order to identify driving mechanisms of palaeoclimatic change as a result of the interplay between the East Asian Summer Monsoon (EASM), the Asian Winter Monsoon (AWM), and Westerlies (Pachur et al, 1995;Herzschuh et al, 2004;Yang et al, 2004;Yu et al, 2006;Chen et al, 2008;Long et al, 2010;Li et al, 2014). However, the debate about late Quaternary climatic variability in northern Chinese drylands is still a matter of controversies (Lehmkuhl and Haselein, 2000;Yang et al, 2004;Chen et al, 2008;Yang and Scuderi, 2010;Lu et al, 2011a;Long and Shen, 2015).…”

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“…Further studies focused on geomorphological (beach walls, yardangs, inverted channels) and sedimentary records (applying grain size, mineralogy, geochemistry, magnetic susceptibility investigations) such as aeolian and lacustrine sediments (Chen et al, 2003;Yu et al, 2006;Wünnemann et al, 2007;Hartmann and Wünnemann, 2009;Mason et al, 2009;Long et al, 2010;Wang et al, 2012Li et al, 2014), but also included palaeobiological investigations (e.g., Mischke et al, 2003;Herzschuh et al, 2004;Chen et al, 2006;Liu et al, 2008;Wang and Feng, 2013;Ni et al, 2014).…”

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Late Quaternary aeolian sand deposition sustained by fluvial reworking and sediment supply in the Hexi Corridor — An example from northern Chinese drylands

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“…Due to the absence of long and continuous sedimentary sequences in desert area, finding effective substitute in the deserts of world to understanding the Quaternary climatic history is still a difficult issue (Yang 2001;Yang et al, 2004). Knowledge of the late Quaternary climatic history of northwestern China is crucial to understanding the evolution of the East-Asian climate system (Liu et al, 1996Liu and Ding, 1998;Sun et al, 1998;Feng et al, 1998;Yang X et al, 2004Yang X et al, , 2011bYang X et al, , 2012Ding and Chan, 2005;Herzschuh, 2006;Stevens et al, 2008;Yang S et al, 2008;Mason et al, 2009;Lu et al, 2011;Li et al, 2014). Until now, acquired clues reflecting desert palaeoenvironmental history in north China are on a large degree derived from proof of loess and palaeosol sedimentary sequences located at the peripheric or remote areas of the deserts (e.g., Liu and Ding, 1998;Guo et al, 2002;Sun, 2002).…”

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Climate-Driven Landformof the Ejina Basin (NW China) in Central Asia and Its Paleoenvironmental Implications

Zhu¹

2015

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Though neotectonic activity is believed to be the major factor in the evolution of the topography of the Ejina Basin in Central Asia, detailed documentation and analysis of climatic landscape features and their environmental implications are lacking. The present study is a site-specific documentation of landforms developed in the wide part of the Ejina Basin, with the aim to identify the climatic landforms based on the method of climatic geomorphology and to evaluate its landscape evolution and response to palaeoclimate changes. The morphodynamics of older landscapes are recognized by making comparison with the present climate and its corresponding landscapes. Clear evidences testifying the basin-scale shifting and transformation of different morphoclimatic zones in the basin are observed, which prove that the main geomorphic unit is changed from an alluvial-lacustrine plain to a desert plain. The coexistence of diverse landscapes and the consequent geomorphodiversity in the basin should be a compound result of surficial processes other than glaciations. The climate and hydrological conditions of the basin during the last glaciation and during the Early Holocene were much better than at present, possibly having an average annual precipitation ranged between 60~350 mm on the basin during ca. 39-23 ka BP but great fluctuations during Holocene. The periods of lower aridity during the late Pleistocene in the bain could be induced by an increase of the westerlies and a weakening of the Asian winter monsoon on the arid areas of the central Asia.

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Quantitative precipitation estimates for the northeastern Qinghai‐Tibetan Plateau over the last 18,000 years

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JGR Atmospheres

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Quantitative information regarding the long‐term variability of precipitation and vegetation during the period covering both the Late Glacial and the Holocene on the Qinghai‐Tibetan Plateau (QTP) is scarce. Herein, we provide new and numerical reconstructions for annual mean precipitation (PANN) and vegetation history over the last 18,000 years using high‐resolution pollen data from Lakes Dalianhai and Qinghai on the northeastern QTP. Hitherto, five calibration techniques including weighted averaging, weighted average‐partial least squares regression, modern analogue technique, locally weighted weighted averaging regression, and maximum likelihood were first employed to construct robust inference models and to produce reliable PANN estimates on the QTP. The biomization method was applied for reconstructing the vegetation dynamics. The study area was dominated by steppe and characterized with a highly variable, relatively dry climate at ~18,000–11,000 cal years B.P. PANN increased since the early Holocene, obtained a maximum at ~8000–3000 cal years B.P. with coniferous‐temperate mixed forest as the dominant biome, and thereafter declined to present. The PANN reconstructions are broadly consistent with other proxy‐based paleoclimatic records from the northeastern QTP and the northern region of monsoonal China. The possible mechanisms behind the precipitation changes may be tentatively attributed to the internal feedback processes of higher latitude (e.g., North Atlantic) and lower latitude (e.g., subtropical monsoon) competing climatic regimes, which are primarily modulated by solar energy output as the external driving force. These findings may provide important insights into understanding the future Asian precipitation dynamics under the projected global warming.

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Reconstructed moisture evolution of the deserts in northern China since the Last Glacial Maximum and its implications for the East Asian Summer Monsoon

Cited by 108 publications

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Late Quaternary aeolian sand deposition sustained by fluvial reworking and sediment supply in the Hexi Corridor — An example from northern Chinese drylands

Late Quaternary aeolian sand deposition sustained by fluvial reworking and sediment supply in the Hexi Corridor — An example from northern Chinese drylands

Climate-Driven Landformof the Ejina Basin (NW China) in Central Asia and Its Paleoenvironmental Implications

Quantitative precipitation estimates for the northeastern Qinghai‐Tibetan Plateau over the last 18,000 years

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