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05 Feb 2016
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Significant recent warming over the northern Tibetan Plateau from ice core δ18O records
W. An
Key Laboratory of Coast and Island development of Ministry of Education,
School of Geographic and Oceanographic Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing
210093, China
Key Laboratory of Coast and Island development of Ministry of Education,
School of Geographic and Oceanographic Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing
210093, China
CAS Center for Excellence in Tibetan Plateau Earth Sciences, Beijing
100101, China
W. Zhang
Key Laboratory of Coast and Island development of Ministry of Education,
School of Geographic and Oceanographic Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing
210093, China
College of Population, Resources and Environment, Shandong Normal
University, Jinan 250014, China
Y. Liu
State Key Laboratory of Cryospheric Science, Cold and Arid Regions
Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, Chinese Academy of
Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, China
Key Laboratory of Coast and Island development of Ministry of Education,
School of Geographic and Oceanographic Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing
210093, China
Geology Department, University of Dayton, Ohio 45469-2364, USA
H. Pang
Key Laboratory of Coast and Island development of Ministry of Education,
School of Geographic and Oceanographic Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing
210093, China
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Short summary
This paper presents the δ18O result of an ice core recovered from Mt. Zangser Kangri (ZK), a remote area on the northern Tibetan Plateau (TP). We combined the δ18O series of ZK and three other nearby Tibetan ice cores to reconstruct a regional temperature history of 1951–2008, which captured the continuous rapid warming since 1970, even during the global warming hiatus period. It implied that temperature change could have behaved differently at high elevations.
This paper presents the δ18O result of an ice core recovered from Mt. Zangser Kangri (ZK), a...
