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https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-12-2077-2016
© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
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Research article
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16 Nov 2016
Research article |
| 16 Nov 2016
Modeling precipitation δ18O variability in East Asia since the Last Glacial Maximum: temperature and amount effects across different timescales
Xinyu Wen
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Laboratory for Climate, Ocean and Atmosphere Studies, Dept. of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing, China
Zhengyu Liu
The Center for Climatic Research, The Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA
Zhongxiao Chen
Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China
Esther Brady
Climate and Global Dynamics, Earth System Laboratory, NCAR, Boulder, CO, USA
David Noone
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA
Qingzhao Zhu
Laboratory for Climate, Ocean and Atmosphere Studies, Dept. of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing, China
Jian Guan
Laboratory for Climate, Ocean and Atmosphere Studies, Dept. of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing, China
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Short summary
In this paper, we challenge the usefulness of temperature effect and amount effect, the basic assumptions in past climate reconstruction using a stable water isotope proxy, in East Asia on multiple timescales. By modeling several time slices in the past 22 000 years using an isotope-enabled general circulation model, we suggest great caution when interpreting δ18O records in this area as indicators of surface temperature and/or local monsoonal precipitation, especially on a millennial timescale.
In this paper, we challenge the usefulness of temperature effect and amount effect, the basic...
