A spatially explicit model of runoff, evaporation, and lake extent: Application to modern and late Pleistocene lakes in the Great Basin region, western United States

Matsubara, Y.; Howard, A. D.

doi:10.1029/2007wr005953

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“…These cool, wet periods are marked by high pluvial lake levels (e.g., Currey et al, 1990;Matsubara and Howard, 2009;McGee et al, 2012;Oviatt, 2015), mountain glacier advances prior to the onset of the Bølling-Allerød (e.g., Owen et al, 2003;Guido et al, 2007;Orme, 2008;Refsnider et al, 2008Refsnider et al, , 2009Brugger, 2010), increased landsliding in the Rio Grande basin between ∼ 21.2 and ∼ 14.5 ka (Reneau and Dethier, 1996), deposition of valley fills in the Colorado River (Pederson et al, 2013), and speleothem growth (e.g., Polyak et al, 2004;Oster and Kelley, 2016). The warmer Bølling-Allerød and Holocene correspond to records of mountain glacier retreat (Guido et al, 2007;Laabs et al, 2013;Munroe and Laabs, 2013) and strath terrace formation due to river incision (Anders et al, 2005;Cook et al, 2009).…”

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“…These sediment discharges can be compared with records of deposition (e.g., Andrews and Dunhill, 2004;Breckenridge, 2007;Rittenour et al, 2007;Williams et al, 2010) and geomorphic change (e.g., Dury, 1964;Reusser et al, 2006;Knox, 2007;Bettis et al, 2008;Anderson, 2015). The need to properly compute past lake and land cover motivates continued work with climate-and water-balance models (e.g., Collins et al, 2006;Matsubara and Howard, 2009;Liu et al, 2009;He, 2011;Blois et al, 2013;Fan et al, 2013;Ivanović et al, 2016a), which can in turn be used to improve past drainage basin and discharge reconstructions. These, together with paleogeographic reconstructions such as those presented here, can be used to reconstruct areas of archaeological interest, either as changes in shoreline positions and topography or as wholesale landscape reconstructions that incorporate site-potential modeling (Fedje and Christensen, 1999;Mandryk et al, 2001;Monteleone, 2013;Monteleone et al, 2013;Dixon and Monteleone, 2014).…”

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Reconstruction of North American drainage basins and river discharge since the Last Glacial Maximum

Wickert

2016

Earth Surf. Dynam.

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Abstract. Over the last glacial cycle, ice sheets and the resultant glacial isostatic adjustment (GIA) rearranged river systems. As these riverine threads that tied the ice sheets to the sea were stretched, severed, and restructured, they also shrank and swelled with the pulse of meltwater inputs and time-varying drainage basin areas, and sometimes delivered enough meltwater to the oceans in the right places to influence global climate. Here I present a general method to compute past river flow paths, drainage basin geometries, and river discharges, by combining models of past ice sheets, glacial isostatic adjustment, and climate. The result is a time series of synthetic paleohydrographs and drainage basin maps from the Last Glacial Maximum to present for nine major drainage basins -the Mississippi, Rio Grande, Colorado, Columbia, Mackenzie, Hudson Bay, Saint Lawrence, Hudson, and Susquehanna/Chesapeake Bay. These are based on five published reconstructions of the North American ice sheets. I compare these maps with drainage reconstructions and discharge histories based on a review of observational evidence, including river deposits and terraces, isotopic records, mineral provenance markers, glacial moraine histories, and evidence of ice stream and tunnel valley flow directions. The sharp boundaries of the reconstructed past drainage basins complement the flexurally smoothed GIA signal that is more often used to validate ice-sheet reconstructions, and provide a complementary framework to reduce nonuniqueness in model reconstructions of the North American ice-sheet complex.

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Reconstruction of North American drainage basins and river discharge since the Last Glacial Maximum

Wickert

2016

Earth Surf. Dynam.

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“…Input to Long Valley Lake may have been twice as much during pluvial intervals. Paleohydrologic analysis for full-pluvial conditions at numerous Pleistocene lakes in Nevada estimates precipitation to have been 52-80 percent greater than modern values, mean annual temperature to have been ~3 ºC lower, and evaporation rate from lakes to have been ~10 percent lower (Mifflin and Wheat, 1979;Matsubara and Howard, 2009). …”

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Long Valley Caldera Lake and reincision of Owens River Gorge

Hildreth¹,

Fierstein²

2016

Scientific Investigations Report

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“…. Lacustrine deposits and paleo-shorelines found throughout the terminally draining (closed) basins of the western USA Pound et al, 2014) suggest a hydrologic balance dramatically different from that of the present during intervals of the PliocenePleistocene (Matsubara and Howard, 2009;Oster et al, 2015;Barth et al, 2016;Putnam and Broecker, 2017).…”

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Paleoclimate Constraints on Terrestrial Hydroclimate, Silicate Weathering, and the Carbon Cycle

Ibarra¹

2018

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Maintenance of a habitable planet requires connections and balance among Earth’s biogeochemical cycles. Further, the strength of the feedbacks and couplings determines the stability of conditions in the surface climate system necessary for the evolution of life. Records of Earth’s past climate, paleoclimate records, provide constraints beyond the reach of the instrumental record on the directionality, strength and co-evolution of key Earth system cycles. This includes the geologic carbon cycle, the water cycle and the planet’s energy balance. Crucially, the geography, topography and lithology of Earth’s continents have two important features that are the focus of this dissertation. First, the continents provide boundary conditions that determine global circulation and hydroclimate patterns that couple Earth’s water and carbon cycles (Chapters 1 and 2). Second, the land surface provides a stabilizing negative feedback in the form of silicate weathering fluxes (Chapters 3 and 4, and Appendix E), balancing the long-term carbon cycle through alkalinity and solute delivery to the oceans, and subsequent carbonate burial. In this dissertation I use data, observations and modeling to place mechanistic constraints on how interactions between Earth’s surface and long-term biogeochemical cycles maintain balance and habitable conditions in our climate system conducive for the evolution of life. Fundamental to understanding our climate system is predicting the anticipated sign of terrestrial hydroclimate change during periods of climatic change. To this end I have investigated the regional response of hydroclimate change using paleoclimate records from mid-latitude lake systems. First, in Chapter 1, I have developed an inverse model to quantify how a mid-latitude lake system in Asia, the Songliao Basin, responded to a transient warming event during the Cretaceous. This model was also applied to a Holocene ostracod record from Lake Miragoane, Haiti. Second, in Chapter 2, I compile spatial distributions and size estimates of pluvial lake systems in western North America during the Pliocene-Pleistocene. By imposing mass and energy balance constraints (sensu Budyko) I forward modeled lake area distributions to demonstrate that now-arid western North America was wetter during both past colder and warmer periods during the Pliocene-Pleistocene, a result not predicted for future warming scenarios. Geologic observations primarily suggest wetter conditions globally during warmer-than-present periods. Importantly, this observation is a requirement for the operation of the stabilizing negative feedback between silicate weathering and climate. Understanding the factors that control silicate weathering rates is fundamental to constraining the evolution of Earth’s carbon cycle over geologic timescales. One challenge for reconstructing past weathering rates is determining the reactivity of Earth’s surface. In Chapter 3 I have quantified the reactivity of modern basalt and granite catchments using a process-based solute production model and concentration-discharge weathering relationships. This approach provides mechanisms that link runoff (i.e., terrestrial hydroclimate changes that were the focus of Chapters 1 and 2) with the distribution of global sub-aerial silicate lithologies. In Chapter 4 I utilize an emerging metal isotope system, lithium isotopes, to investigate the terrestrial weathering response to a large perturbation in the carbon cycle during the Cretaceous. We determine that the background-state of the Cretaceous weathering system was more congruent and, hence, more sensitive to perturbations in the carbon cycle than during the Neogene. Finally, in Appendix E I have quantified how step-wise geologic evolution of land plants strengthened the silicate weathering feedback over the Phanerozoic. I have developed a new reactive transport framework for evaluating the relative plant-controlled roles of hydrologic versus thermodynamic mechanisms that influence the coupling between the water cycle and silicate weathering fluxes on a continental scale. The results described in this dissertation constrain links between two connected portions of the exogenic Earth system. I have provided constraints for how the land surface records past changes in regional atmospheric circulation patterns, as well as regional water and energy balances. Further, using reactive transport modeling, I have placed new constraints on the role of plants and lithology in determining the coupling between terrestrial hydroclimate and weathering. Collectively these results suggest that the surface Earth system, our planet’s fluid envelope, has been progressively tuned by the advent of continents and the evolution of life. [Note: this is the non-embargoed portion of my dissertation]

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A spatially explicit model of runoff, evaporation, and lake extent: Application to modern and late Pleistocene lakes in the Great Basin region, western United States

Cited by 60 publications

References 111 publications

Reconstruction of North American drainage basins and river discharge since the Last Glacial Maximum

Reconstruction of North American drainage basins and river discharge since the Last Glacial Maximum

Long Valley Caldera Lake and reincision of Owens River Gorge

Paleoclimate Constraints on Terrestrial Hydroclimate, Silicate Weathering, and the Carbon Cycle

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