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A series of climate oscillations around 8.2 ka revealed through multi-proxy speleothem records from North China
Pengzhen Duan
Research Institute of Petroleum Exploration and Development, PetroChina, Beijing, China
Hanying Li
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Institute of Global Environmental Change, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China
Zhibang Ma
Key Laboratory of Cenozoic Geology and Environment, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Jingyao Zhao
Institute of Global Environmental Change, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China
Xiyu Dong
Institute of Global Environmental Change, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China
Ashish Sinha
Department of Earth Science, California State University, Dominguez Hills, Carson, California, USA
Peng Hu
Yunnan Key Laboratory of Meteorological Disasters and Climate Resources in the Greater Mekong Subregion, Yunnan University, Kunming 650091, China
Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Yunnan University, Kunming 650500, China
Haiwei Zhang
Institute of Global Environmental Change, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China
Youfeng Ning
Institute of Global Environmental Change, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China
Guangyou Zhu
Research Institute of Petroleum Exploration and Development, PetroChina, Beijing, China
Hai Cheng
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Institute of Global Environmental Change, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China
State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi'an, China
Key Laboratory of Karst Dynamics, MLR, Institute of Karst Geology, CAGS, Guilin, China
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Why do leaf water isotopes can generate to be an isotopic line in a dual-isotope plot? This isotopic water line is as important as the local meteoric water line (LMWL) in the isotope ecohydrology field. We analyzed the variations of oxygen and hydrogen isotopes in soil water, stem water, and leaf water along an elevation transect across seasons. We found that both seasonality and altitude affecting source water are likely to result in the generation of an isotopic water line in leaf water.
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Short summary
We use multi-proxy speleothem records to reveal a two droughts–one pluvial pattern during 8.5–8.0 ka. The different rebounded rainfall quantity after two droughts causes different behavior of δ13C, suggesting the dominant role of rainfall threshold on the ecosystem. A comparison of different records suggests the prolonged 8.2 ka event is a globally common phenomenon rather than a regional signal. The variability of the AMOC strength is mainly responsible for these climate changes.
We use multi-proxy speleothem records to reveal a two droughts–one pluvial pattern during...
