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Article: South China Sea hydrological changes and Pacific Walker Circulation variations over the last millennium

TitleSouth China Sea hydrological changes and Pacific Walker Circulation variations over the last millennium
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Issue Date2011
PublisherNature. The Journal's website is located at http://www.nature.com/ncomms/index.html
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Nature Communications, 2011, v. 2 n. 1, article no. 293 How to Cite?
AbstractThe relative importance of north-south migrations of the intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ) versus El Niño-Southern Oscillation and its associated Pacific Walker Circulation (PWC) variability for past hydrological change in the western tropical Pacific is unclear. Here we show that north-south ITCZ migration was not the only mechanism of tropical Pacific hydrologic variability during the last millennium, and that PWC variability profoundly influenced tropical Pacific hydrology. We present hydrological reconstructions from Cattle Pond, Dongdao Island of the South China Sea, where multi-decadal rainfall and downcore grain size variations are correlated to the Southern Oscillation Index during the instrumental era. Our downcore grain size reconstructions indicate that this site received less precipitation during relatively warm periods, AD 1000-1400 and AD 1850-2000, compared with the cool period (AD 1400-1850). Including our new reconstructions in a synthesis of tropical Pacific records results in a spatial pattern of hydrologic variability that implicates the PWC. © 2011 Macmillan Publishers Limited. All rights reserved.
Persistent Identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/139165
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2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 4.887
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Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)40730107
Major State Basic Research Development Program of China (973 Program)2010CB428902
US NSF
Funding Information:

This work was supported by the Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) (40730107) and the Major State Basic Research Development Program of China (973 Program) (No.2010CB428902). DWO acknowledges support from the US NSF. We wish to thank Chengyun Yang, Yi Liu, Nan Jia, Sanping Zhao, Xin He and Shican Qiu for their help in sampling and analyses.

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dc.contributor.authorXie, Zen_HK
dc.contributor.authorLiu, Xen_HK
dc.contributor.authorCheng, Wen_HK
dc.date.accessioned2011-09-23T05:46:16Z-
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dc.date.issued2011en_HK
dc.identifier.citationNature Communications, 2011, v. 2 n. 1, article no. 293en_HK
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dc.description.abstractThe relative importance of north-south migrations of the intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ) versus El Niño-Southern Oscillation and its associated Pacific Walker Circulation (PWC) variability for past hydrological change in the western tropical Pacific is unclear. Here we show that north-south ITCZ migration was not the only mechanism of tropical Pacific hydrologic variability during the last millennium, and that PWC variability profoundly influenced tropical Pacific hydrology. We present hydrological reconstructions from Cattle Pond, Dongdao Island of the South China Sea, where multi-decadal rainfall and downcore grain size variations are correlated to the Southern Oscillation Index during the instrumental era. Our downcore grain size reconstructions indicate that this site received less precipitation during relatively warm periods, AD 1000-1400 and AD 1850-2000, compared with the cool period (AD 1400-1850). Including our new reconstructions in a synthesis of tropical Pacific records results in a spatial pattern of hydrologic variability that implicates the PWC. © 2011 Macmillan Publishers Limited. All rights reserved.en_HK
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dc.publisherNature. The Journal's website is located at http://www.nature.com/ncomms/index.htmlen_US
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