Latitude-Dependent Response of East Asian Summer Monsoon to External Forcing in the Last Millennium

Response of the East Asian summer monsoon(EASM) rainfall to external forcing(insolation,volcanic aerosol,and greenhouse gases) is investigated by analysis of a millennium simulation with the coupled climate model ECHO-G.The model reproduces reasonably realistic present-day EASM climatology.The simulated precipitation variation in East Asia over the last millennium compares favorably with the observed and proxy data.It is found that the features and sensitivity of the forced response depend on latitude.On...     

Did the Indo‐Asian summer monsoon decrease during the Holocene following insolation?

A few studies from the western Arabian Sea indicate that the Indian summer (or southwest) monsoon (ISM), after attaining its maximum intensity at ca. 9 ka, declined during the Holocene, as did insolation. In contrast, earlier and later observations from both the eastern and the western Arabian Sea do not support this inference. Analysis of multiple proxies of productivity in a new sediment core from the western Arabian Sea fails to confirm the earlier, single‐proxy (e.g. abundance of Globigerina bulloides) based, inference of the Holocene weakening of ISM, following insolation. The reason for the observed decreasing trend in foraminiferal abundance – the basis for the earlier inference – could be the favouring of silicate rather than carbonate productivity by the increased ISM wind strength. Although ISM exhibits several multi‐millennial scale fluctuations, there is no evidence from several multi‐proxy data to conclude that it declined during the Holocene; this is consistent with the phase lag analysis of longer time series of monsoon proxies. Thus, on sub‐Milankovitch timescales, ISM did not follow insolation, highlighting the importance of internal feedbacks. A comparison with East Asian summer monsoon (EASM) records suggests that both ISM and EASM varied in unison, implying common forcing factors on such longer timescales. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

树轮降水记录及东亚夏季风强弱变化——以内蒙古包头地区为例

在精确交叉定年的基础上 ,依据树木年轮宽度指标 ,分别精确重建了中国内蒙古包头地区过去 2 6 0a来 2— 7月上旬及 6— 8月上旬降水总量 ,方差解释量分别达到 42 6 0 %和 32 6 0 % ,并与历史记载进行了良好的对比。通过 6— 8月上旬降水总量所反应的干湿时段的分析 ,研究了东亚夏季风10 0 10 1a尺度的强弱变化历史。发现在过去近 2 6 0a中 ,东亚夏季风经历了 8次较强和 8次较弱的发展过程。同时周期分析表明 ,6— 8月上旬降水存在 12 6 3,7 5 ,5 115 2 2 ,4 5 34 6 2 ,3 16 3 5 3a的准周期。     

亚热带森林岩溶区土壤CO_2迁移动态初步研究

贵州茂兰是研究森林覆盖下岩溶表层系统结构特征、运行规律的重要基地。本文初步研究了该地区碳迁移的若干特征 :(1)土壤剖面中CO2 浓度变化。秋、冬季土下CO2 浓度 ,5 0cm处始终高于 2 0cm处 ,而在春、夏季土壤剖面中CO2 浓度变化幅度大 ,2 0cm处的浓度时常高出5 0cm处。土下 2 0cm、 5 0cm处CO2 浓度在不同季节的变化趋势是夏季 (32 833× 10 - 6、 386 6 6× 10 - 6)春季 (2 4 4 16× 10 - 6,2 880 0× 10 - 6)秋季 (6 4 5 0× 10 - 6) ,142 16× 10 - 6>冬季 (3833× 10 - 6,8833× - 6) ,土下CO2 浓度变化趋势与温度和降雨量有较好的正相关关系。 2 0cm处的CO2 浓度变化与温度的相关系数r =0 89,与降雨量的相关系数r =0 70 ;5 0cm处的CO2 浓度变化与温度的相关系数r =0 6 9,与降雨量的相关系数r =0 6 6。 (2 )土壤呼吸释放CO2 的速率有类似的变化规律 :夏季为 339 6 8mg m- 2 h- 1、为 2 81 74mg m- 2 h- 1、秋季为 2 0 6 5 9mg m- 2 h- 1、冬季为 6 5 5 3mg m- 2 h- 1。年均排放量为 1 96kg m- 2 yr- 1。 (3)随水排泄HCO3 - 1是岩溶表层泉碳迁移的重要组分。表层泉水的HCO3 - 1浓度的季节变化与气温、月降雨量、土下 2 0cm处CO2浓度存在着负相关 ,其相关系数r =- 0 5 7、     

青藏高原隆升的深层原因及其环境后果

根据青藏高原隆升的数值模型,利用最新地磁极性资料重新计算了高原隆升随时间的变化.在高原的隆升史中,先后有3次达到了H≥Hc(凝结高度),这亦是3个典型的季风气候期.地磁极性强正向期对应着高原的强隆升期,同时也对应着低海平面期;长反向期则伴随着高原的夷平期和高海平面期,但海平面变化比地磁场极性转变平均要晚0.8～1.0MaB.P..     

COMPOSITE ANALYSIS OF SUMMER MONSOON ONSET PROCESS OVER SOUTH CHINA SEA

Based on the method of composite analysis, the onset process and preceding signs of summer monsoon over the South China Sea (SCS) is investigated. The result indicates that convection activities appear first over the Indo-China Peninsula prior to the onset of the monsoon, then around the Philippines just at the point of onset, implying that the convection activities around the Philippines serve as one of the reasons leading to the SCS monsoon onset. Before the SCS monsoon onset, the equatorial westerly over the Indian Ocean (75°E 95°E ) experiences noticeable enhancement and plays an important role on the SCS monsoon onset. It propagates eastward rapidly and causes the establishment and strengthening of equatorial westerly in the southern SCS, on the one hand, it results in the migration southward of the westerly on south side of the south-China stationary front by means of shift northeastward of the westerly and convection over the Bay of Bengal, on the other. Further study also shows that the intensification of equatorial westerly in the Indian Ocean (75°E 95°E) and the southern SCS is closely related to the reinforcement of the Southern-Hemisphere Mascarene high and Australian high, and cross-equatorial flow northward around Somali, at 85°E and 105°E, respectively.     

我国东部夏季降水百年雨型的多时间尺度变化特征研究

本文用1900-1950年的我国实测的与内插的降水、气温资料，结合近代先进的统计方法对立了1900-1950年我国东部夏季降水雨型序列，并将其与已有的近48年（1951-1998年）的夏季雨型序列相衔接，进而研究了近百年我国夏季雨带的演变规律及其与ENSO的关系，此外，还研究了百年夏季雨型与大气活动中心在基本态时间尺度上的关系，研究了北太平洋涛动和我国夏季降水的关系。     

西太平洋副热带高压的强度和位置与亚洲地表温度之关系

利用NCEP/NCAR再分析资料中的500hPa高度场资料和NCAR地温资料,分析了6～8月西太平洋副热带高压的面积指数、西伸的经度和脊线的纬度等与亚洲地表温度之关系.结果表明,夏季西太平洋副热带高压的强度及位置,与亚洲某些区域的地表温度有明显的关系.关系最密切的是(100～110°E35～45°N)附近,位于我国内蒙古西南部、甘肃和宁夏自治区一带以及蒙古人民共和国的南部.另外青藏高原、南亚地区的地表温度与西太平洋副高也有较好的相关.文中对此做了详细分析和讨论.     

微量元素记录的化学风化和气候变化：以巴丹吉林沙漠查格勒布鲁剖面为例

查格勒布鲁剖面包含7种类型的沉积相，地层中微量元素的总质量分数大致按照“风成砂→湖相层→黄土→古土壤”的顺序递增。多数微量元素的质量分数在剖面中的演化趋势与沉积物的中值粒烃和硅酸系数的大小呈负相关。与洛川剖面的马兰黄土相比，查格勒布鲁剖面上更新统地层处于相对微弱的化学风化环境，表明，晚更新世期间，巴丹吉林沙漠一带的干湿变化取决于东亚夏季风的盛衰，西风气流带来的降水到达不了巴丹吉林沙漠附近地区。     

Correlation between high-resolution climate records from a Nanjing stalagmite and GRIP ice core during the last glaciation

A 400-mm-long stalagmite from Tangshan Cave, Nanjing has been analyzed by a high-precision TIMS-U series dating method and also determined for oxygen and carbon stable isotopic compositions. The results provided a high-resolution paleoclimate record for eastern China during a time interval (from 54 000 to 19 000 aBP) of the last glaciation. The continuous record of oxygen-18 variations in the stalagmite, indicating a precipitation history of the East Asian monsoon, shows not only signals of the Heinrich events, but also the Dansgaard-Oeschger cycles which are first found in the last glacial climate record of the East Asian monsoon area. Although the stalagmite-based climatic signals match well with the GRIP ice core record, some differences between the two records can be recognized: (1) The last glacial climate changes in eastern China exhibited a long-term remarkably cooling trend, superimposed on which were four successive Bond’s cycles illustrated by the δ¹⁸O curve. This strong cooling tendency may be an effect of the strong summer monsoon event during the MIS 3 over the Tibetan Plateau. (2) There exist some phase differences of 1000–2000 years between the cooling events in the stalagmite-based climate signal and the GRIP ice core record. Such differences should be further verified by calibrations of multiple dating methods