Evidence for cold events in the early Holocene from the Guliya ice core, Tibetan Plateau, China

2002 ◽  
Vol 47 (17) ◽  
pp. 1422 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ninglian WANG
Keyword(s):  
Tibetan Plateau ◽  
Ice Core ◽  
Early Holocene ◽  
Guliya Ice Core ◽  
Cold Events

scholarly journals Brief communication: New evidence further constraining Tibetan ice core chronologies to the Holocene

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 2109-2114
Author(s):  
Shugui Hou ◽  
Wangbin Zhang ◽  
Ling Fang ◽  
Theo M. Jenk ◽  
Shuangye Wu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Tibetan Plateau ◽  
Ice Core ◽  
Ice Cores ◽  
Qilian Mountains ◽  
Time Range ◽  
The Holocene ◽  
Guliya Ice Core ◽  
Considerable Controversy ◽  
New Evidence

Abstract. There is considerable controversy regarding the age ranges of Tibetan ice cores. The Guliya ice core was reported to reach as far back as ∼760 ka (kiloannum, i.e. 1000 years), whereas chronologies of all other Tibetan cores cover at most the Holocene. Here we present ages for two new ice cores reaching bedrock, from the Zangser Kangri (ZK) glacier in the northwestern Tibetan Plateau and the Shulenanshan (SLNS) glacier in the western Qilian Mountains. We estimated bottom ages of 8.90±0.570.56 ka and 7.46±1.461.79 ka for the ZK and SLNS ice core respectively, further constraining the time range accessible by Tibetan ice cores to the Holocene.

scholarly journals Brief Communication: New evidence further constraining Tibetan ice core chronologies to the Holocene

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shugui Hou ◽  
Wangbin Zhang ◽  
Ling Fang ◽  
Theo M. Jenk ◽  
Shuangye Wu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Tibetan Plateau ◽  
Ice Core ◽  
Ice Cores ◽  
Qilian Mountains ◽  
Time Range ◽  
The Holocene ◽  
Guliya Ice Core ◽  
Considerable Controversy ◽  
New Evidence

Abstract. There is considerable controversy regarding the age ranges of Tibetan ice cores. The Guliya ice core was reported to reach as far back as ~ 760 ka (thousand years), whereas chronologies of all other Tibetan cores cover at most the Holocene. Here we present ages for two new ice cores reaching bedrock, from the Zangser Kangri (ZK) glacier in the northwestern Tibetan Plateau and the Shulenanshan (SLNS) glacier in the western Qilian Mountains. We estimated bottom ages of 8.90 ± 0.57/0.56 ka BP and 7.46 ± 1.46/1.79 ka BP for the ZK and SLNS ice core respectively, constraining the time range accessible by Tibetan ice cores to the Holocene.

A chironomid-based reconstruction of late glacial summer temperatures in the southern Carpathians (Romania)

2012 ◽  
Vol 77 (1) ◽  
pp. 122-131 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mónika Tóth ◽  
Enikő K. Magyari ◽  
Stephen J. Brooks ◽  
Mihály Braun ◽  
Krisztina Buczkó ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Ice Core ◽  
Late Glacial ◽  
Summer Temperature ◽  
Early Holocene ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Temperature Changes ◽  
Climate Reconstructions ◽  
Important Addition ◽  
Cold Events ◽  
Summer Temperatures

Late glacial and early Holocene summer temperatures were reconstructed based on fossil chironomid assemblages at Lake Brazi (Retezat Mountains) with a joint Norwegian"Swiss transfer function, providing an important addition to the late glacial quantitative climate reconstructions from Europe. The pattern of the late glacial temperature changes in Lake Brazi show both similarities and some differences from the NGRIP δ18O record and other European chironomid-based reconstructions. Our reconstruction indicates that at Lake Brazi (1740 m a.s.l.) summer air temperature increased by ~ 2.8ºC at the Oldest Dryas/Bølling transition (GS-2/GI-1) and reached 8.1–8.7ºC during the late glacial interstade. The onset of the Younger Dryas (GS-1) was characterized by a weak (< 1ºC) decrease in chironomid-inferred temperatures. Similarly, at the GS-1/Holocene transition no major changes in summer temperature were recorded. In the early Holocene, summer temperature increased in two steps and reached ~ 12.0–13.3ºC during the Preboreal. Two short-term cold events were detected during the early Holocene between 11,480–11,390 and 10,350–10,190 cal yr BP. The first cooling coincides with the Preboreal oscillation and shows a weak (0.7ºC) temperature decrease, while the second is characterized by 1ºC cooling. Both cold events coincide with cooling events in the Greenland ice core records and other European temperature reconstructions.

scholarly journals Significant recent warming over the northern Tibetan Plateau from ice core <i>δ</i><sup>18</sup>O records

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 201-211 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. An ◽  
S. Hou ◽  
W. Zhang ◽  
Y. Wang ◽  
Y. Liu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Tibetan Plateau ◽  
Ice Core ◽  
Ice Cores ◽  
Global Temperature ◽  
Temperature History ◽  
Temperature Record ◽  
Northern Tibetan Plateau ◽  
Recent Warming ◽  
Warming Hiatus ◽  
Instrumental Records

Abstract. Stable oxygen isotopic records in ice cores provide valuable information about past temperature, especially for regions with scarce instrumental measurements. This paper presents the δ18O result of an ice core drilled to bedrock from Mt. Zangser Kangri (ZK), a remote area on the northern Tibetan Plateau (TP). We reconstructed the temperature series for 1951–2008 from the δ18O records. In addition, we combined the ZK δ18O records with those from three other ice cores in the northern TP (Muztagata, Puruogangri, and Geladaindong) to reconstruct a regional temperature history for the period 1951–2002 (RTNTP). The RTNTP showed significant warming at 0.51 ± 0.07 °C (10 yr)−1 since 1970, a higher rate than the trend of instrumental records of the northern TP (0.43 ± 0.08 °C (10 yr)−1) and the global temperature trend (0.27 ± 0.03°C (10 yr)−1) at the same time. In addition, the ZK temperature record, with extra length until 2008, seems to suggest that the rapid elevation-dependent warming continued for this region during the last decade, when the mean global temperature showed very little change. This could provide insights into the behavior of the recent warming hiatus at higher elevations, where instrumental climate records are lacking.

scholarly journals Stepwise Weakening of Aeolian Activities During the Holocene in the Gannan Region, Eastern Tibetan Plateau

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shengli Yang ◽  
Xiaojing Liu ◽  
Ting Cheng ◽  
Yuanlong Luo ◽  
Qiong Li ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Tibetan Plateau ◽  
Environmental Changes ◽  
Climatic Changes ◽  
Early Holocene ◽  
Eastern Tibetan Plateau ◽  
Aeolian Desertification ◽  
The Holocene ◽  
Aeolian Sediments ◽  
Aeolian Activity ◽  
History Of

Aeolian sediments hold key information on aeolian history and past environmental changes. Aeolian desertification and extensive land degradation have seriously affected the eco-environment in the Gannan region on the eastern Tibetan Plateau. Understanding the history of aeolian activities can deepen our understanding of the impacts of climatic changes on aeolian activities in the future. This study uses a detailed chronology and multiple proxy analyses of a typical aeolian section in Maqu to reconstruct aeolian activities in the region during the Holocene. Our results showed that aeolian activities have occurred in the eastern Tibetan Plateau since the early Holocene. Magnetic susceptibility, grain size records, and paleosols formation indicated a trend of stepwise weakening in aeolian activities from the early Holocene to the present. The weakening of aeolian activities was divided into three stages: ∼10.0–8.0 ka BP, ∼8.0–4.0 ka BP, and ∼4.0 ka BP to the present. Paleosols were primarily formed after ∼8.0 ka BP, and episodically interrupted aeolian activities processes in the Gannan region. Aeolian activity may increase in the Gannan region as the climate gradually warms. Climatic changes and local hydrological conditions have jointly affected the history of aeolian activities in this region.

scholarly journals Millennial variations of atmospheric CO<sub>2</sub> during the early Holocene (11.7–7.4 ka)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jinhwa Shin ◽  
Jinho Ahn ◽  
Jai Chowdhry Beeman ◽  
Hun-Gyu Lee ◽  
Edward J. Brook
Keyword(s):  
North Atlantic ◽  
Ice Core ◽  
Polar Front ◽  
Equatorial Pacific ◽  
Early Holocene ◽  
Atmospheric Co2 ◽  
Solar Forcing ◽  
Local Climate ◽  
Climate Conditions ◽  
Siple Dome

Abstract. We present a new high-resolution record of atmospheric CO2 from the Siple Dome ice core, Antarctica over the early Holocene (11.7–7.4 ka) that quantifies natural CO2 variability on millennial timescales under interglacial climate conditions. Atmospheric CO2 decreased by ~10 ppm between 11.3 and 7.3 ka. The decrease was punctuated by local minima at 11.1, 10.1, 9.1 and 8.3 ka with amplitude of 2–6 ppm. These variations correlate with proxies for solar forcing and local climate in the South East Atlantic polar front, East Equatorial Pacific and North Atlantic. These relationships suggest that weak solar forcing changes might have impacted CO2 by changing CO2 outgassing from the Southern Ocean and the East Equatorial Pacific and terrestrial carbon storage in the Northern Hemisphere over the early Holocene.

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