A 1600-year record of eolian activity from Jili Lake in northern Xinjiang

Qiang, Mingrui; Lang, Wenzhe; He, Zhenhao; Jin, Ming; Zhou, Aifeng; Zhang, Jiawu

doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2022.05.012

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“…The dramatically intensified dust storm stage is also synchronous with the higher total solar irradiance (TSI) during MWP, while the subsequently moderately weakened dust storms during the LIA synchronized with a decrease in solar irradiance (Figures 3a and 3k-3m), suggesting a plausible causal linkage between dust storm activity and solar-forced climate variability. Qiang et al (2022) presented a 1,600-year eolian activity record from Lake Jili in northern Xinjiang, and they also found that the most intensive eolian activity occurred during the MWP, whereas eolian activity during the LIA was relatively weak, showing good agreement with the dust records from Lake Hurleg and Lake Qinghai. In the most recent century, dust storm activity was strengthened as inferred both from our sedimentary records in Lake Qinghai and from other archives (Figures 3h-3k).…”

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“…Qiang et al. (2022) presented a 1,600‐year eolian activity record from Lake Jili in northern Xinjiang, and they also found that the most intensive eolian activity occurred during the MWP, whereas eolian activity during the LIA was relatively weak, showing good agreement with the dust records from Lake Hurleg and Lake Qinghai. In the most recent century, dust storm activity was strengthened as inferred both from our sedimentary records in Lake Qinghai and from other archives (Figures 3h–3k).…”

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Prolonged Drought Enhances Northwest China Dust Storm Activity

Jin

Lan

et al. 2022

JGR Atmospheres

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The patterns and forcing mechanism of dust storms in arid Northwest China remain unclear and debated due to lack of reliable long‐term geological records. Here we present a ∼1,600‐year dust storm history in Northwest China based on the sedimentary coarse fraction (>63 μm) retrieved from Lake Hurleg and Lake Qinghai on the northeastern Tibetan Plateau (NETP). The NETP dust storm history, which agrees well with those from North China, shows two prolonged intervals of high dust storm occurrences during the Medieval Warm Period and the past century, and two prolonged weakened dust storm intervals from ∼400 to 700 CE and during the Little Ice Age. The temporal variation in NETP dust storm activities is out‐of‐phase with moisture records over central Asia, with enhanced dust storms corresponding to warm‐dry intervals, and vice versa. The prolonged centennial warm‐dry climates over arid Northwest China to arid central Asia could have led to decreased soil moisture, deteriorated vegetation cover, and increased dust particle supply and dust storm activities; while the prolonged centennial cold‐wet climates could have increased soil moisture, vegetation cover, and decreased dust storm activities. We contend that whilst human impact could be responsible for the obviously increased eolian dust flux in the most recent century, it is most likely that the prolonged natural hydroclimatic conditions regulate the global dust storm activity before the Anthropocene.

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Section: Lake Sedimentary Records Of Dust Storms In Northwest Chinamentioning

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Prolonged Drought Enhances Northwest China Dust Storm Activity

Jin

Lan

et al. 2022

JGR Atmospheres

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“…(2007) also proposed that, cold‐wet and warm‐dry climate patterns are prevalent in western China during the last millennium. Although some studies show that the warming‐wetting pattern may be widespread in the northwestern of China in recent decades and even persists in the future (Q. Zhang et al., 2021), coexistent with a decrease in modern dust storms (Kang et al., 2022; Qiang et al., 2022; J. Zhang et al., 2020; S. Zhang et al., 2021). Our reconstructed dust input intensity result suggests otherwise, we argue that the hydroclimatic effects of current global warming are different from those observed in the geological past, possibly due to the different underlying mechanisms of warming.…”

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Warmth Favored Dust Activities on the Northeastern Qinghai‐Tibet Plateau

Feng

Long

Yang

et al. 2023

Geophysical Research Letters

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Nevertheless, past dust activities are difficult to be quantified beyond instrumental time scale, whereas inferring past dust emissions and transport pathways is critical to understanding the regime of present and future dust activities. While there are several research papers on mineral dust particles emitted from dust sources that have archived climatic and environmental changes in terrestrial environments on an orbital scale (Ferrat et al., 2012;Pratte et al., 2019;Qiang et al., 2014), few studies of dust are based on the centennial-millennium scale. Among them, several studies have investigated the strong relationship between intensive dust storms and cold air cyclonic activities, such as those conducted by F. Chen et al. (2013), Han et al. (2019), and Wyrwoll et al. (2016. However, some studies have reported intensive dust activities occurred during warmer periods, as documented by He et al. (2015) and

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“…2021) and/or seasonal changes in the intensity and extent of the Siberian High (Qiang et al . 2022). However, increases in the percentages of the >63‐µm fraction in Yileimu Lake within the MWP (Fig.…”

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“…Some studies have indicated that the coarse sediments in lakes such as Gahai Lake (He et al 2015), Sugan Lake (Chen et al 2013) and Erhai Lake (Wang et al 2022) in the northeastern Tibetan Plateau could be indicative of strong eolian activities (Dietze et al 2014, Qiang et al 2014. It interesting that there was an abrupt increase in the percentages of these coarse sediments in Gahai Lake, Sugan Lake, Erhai Lake and Jili Lake in northern China at ~1000 cal a BP, implying significantly enhanced dust storms at the beginning of the MWP in response to a drying climate (Chen et al 2013, He et al 2015, Xiao et al 2021) and/or seasonal changes in the intensity and extent of the Siberian High (Qiang et al 2022). However, increases in the percentages of the >63-µm fraction in Yileimu Lake within the MWP (Fig.…”

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Millennial‐ to centennial‐scale anti‐phase relationship between the Westerlies and the East Asian summer monsoon and its cultural response along the Silk Roads after a great earthquake in southern Altay ~ 3500 cal a BP

Fan

Jiang

et al. 2022

J Quaternary Science

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It is strongly debated whether the Westerlies and the East Asian summer monsoon (EASM) are in‐phase, anti‐phase or out‐of‐phase, and how hydroclimatic changes in the above two climate systems affected trans‐Eurasian cultural exchanges during the late Holocene. In this study, we establish a 3500‐a‐long paleoclimatic sequence based on high‐resolution analyses of sedimentological and geochemical data of a well‐dated sediment core from Yileimu Lake in southern Altay. High percentages of the >63‐µm fraction and high values of Zr/Rb and Rb/Sr ratios indicate strong transport of weakly weathered, coarse sediments into the depocenter of the lake caused by enhanced surface runoff and catchment erosion associated with a wet climate, and vice versa. High values of Ca and total inorganic carbon (TIC) contents imply increased precipitation of endogenic carbonates in the lake water under intense evaporation associated with a dry climate, and vice versa. This new record indicates two wet intervals at 3500–2300 and 600–100 cal a bp, interrupted by a severe and prolonged dry interval from 2300 to 1000 cal a bp, and a mild dry interval with occasionally wet conditions from 1000 to 600 cal a bp. These results are broadly consistent with other paleoclimatic records in Westerlies‐dominated Asia and are generally anti‐phase with those in the EASM region. We suggest that a strengthening/weakening and southward/northward migration of the Westerlies during a negative/positive phase of the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) transported more/less water vapor into arid Asia. Meanwhile, a decreasing/increasing El Niño‐Southern Oscillation (ENSO) superimposed on a southward/northward shift of the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) triggered a weakening/strengthening and southward/northward movement of the West‐Pacific subtropical high (WPSH), resulting in decreasing/increasing EASM intensity. In addition, the wet climate from 3500 to 2300 cal a bp may have contributed to the development of nomadic herding in the eastern Eurasian Steppe and Altay region, and to the opening of the proto‐Silk Roads. Potentially, intense seismic activities in the Altay Mountains ~3500 cal a bp may have also promoted the opening of the proto‐Silk Roads by forcing the herdsmen to move to the inter‐mountainous basins. The strong EASM intensity from 2300 to 1000 cal a bp in eastern China may have contributed to the creation of the ancient Silk Roads by the Han Dynasty.

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A 1600-year record of eolian activity from Jili Lake in northern Xinjiang

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Prolonged Drought Enhances Northwest China Dust Storm Activity

Prolonged Drought Enhances Northwest China Dust Storm Activity

Warmth Favored Dust Activities on the Northeastern Qinghai‐Tibet Plateau

Millennial‐ to centennial‐scale anti‐phase relationship between the Westerlies and the East Asian summer monsoon and its cultural response along the Silk Roads after a great earthquake in southern Altay ~ 3500 cal a BP

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