Hydrologic-energy balance constraints on the Holocene lake-level history of lake Titicaca, South America |
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Authors: | H D Rowe R B Dunbar |
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Institution: | (1) Geological and Environmental Sciences, Stanford University, Bldg. 320, Rm. 118, Stanford, CA 94305-2115;(2) Present address: Geological Sciences, University of Kentucky, 101 Slone Research Building, Lexington, KY 40506-0053, USA |
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Abstract: | A basin-scale hydrologic-energy balance model that integrates modern climatological, hydrological, and hypsographic observations was developed for the modern Lake Titicaca watershed (northern Altiplano, South America) and operated under variable conditions to understand controls on post-glacial changes in lake level. The model simulates changes in five environmental variables (air temperature, cloud fraction, precipitation, relative humidity, and land surface albedo). Relatively small changes in three meteorological variables (mean annual precipitation, temperature, and/or cloud fraction) explain the large mid-Holocene lake-level decrease ( 85 m) inferred from seismic reflection profiling and supported by sediment-based paleoproxies from lake sediments. Climatic controls that shape the present-day Altiplano and the sediment-based record of Holocene lake-level change are combined to interpret model-derived lake-level simulations in terms of changes in the mean state of ENSO and its impact on moisture transport to the Altiplano. |
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