Re—Examination on the Climatological Significance of the Ice Core δ18O Records from No.1 Glacier at the Head of Urumqi River

Ice core δ18O recorde from the No.a glacier at the head of the Urumqi River were used o characterize the relationship between δ18O and contemporaneous surface air temperature(Ta) nearby the Daxigou Meteorological Station(3539 m above sea level,-2km away from the ice core drilling site),Although the ice core records of annually averaged δ18O are positively correlated with conemporaneous surface air temperature,especially summer air temperature,the correlation is less significant than that for the precipitation samples due to depositional and post-depositional modification processes,However,the Climatological significance of the ice corδ18O records can be still preserved to a certain degree,which moght extend the application of high altitude and sub-tropical ice core δ18O records to paleoclimate reconstruction.