Reconstruction of alpine snowfall in southern Kazakhstan based on oxygen isotopes in tree rings

Qin, Li; Bolatov, Kainar; Shang, Huaming; Yu, Shulong; Gou, Xiaohua; Майсупова, Багила; Bolatova, Aigerim; Ainur, Utebekova; Zhang, Ruibo

doi:10.1007/s00704-022-03974-0

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“…Consistent results are also found with precipitation for δ 13 C, both in Tamangur and Carpathian chronologies which show a negative correlation with June precipitation. The winter signal embedded in the δ 18 O and δ 13 C chronologies of God da Tamangur echoes the significant associations observed between isotope series and winter precipitation in the Arctic (Holzkämper et al, 2008), Kazakhstan (Qin et al, 2022) , the Tibetan Plateau, northwestern China (Grießinger et al, 2017;Wernicke et al, 2017;Liu et al, 2013;Qin et al, 2015), Iran (Foroozan et al, 2020) or Pakistan (Treydte et al, 2006) and are thus interpreted as the result of the trees' use of precipitation from before the growing seasons stored in the soil or in groundwater reservoirs.…”

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Abrupt termination of the Little Ice Age in the Alps in the mid-19^th century: lessons from a multi-proxy tree-ring reconstruction of glacier mass balance

Lopez-Saez,

Corona,

Slamova

et al. 2023

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Abstract. Glacier mass-balance reconstructions provide a means of placing relatively short observational records into a longer-term context. Here, we use multiple proxies from Pinus cembra trees from God da Tamangur combining tree-ring anatomy and stable isotope chronologies to reconstruct seasonal glacier mass balance (i.e. winter, summer and annual mass balance) for the nearby Silvrettagletscher over the last two centuries. The combination of tree-ring width, radial cell wall thickness and δ13C isotope records provide a highly significant reconstruction for summer mass balance, whereas, for winter mass balance, the correlation was less significant but still robust when radial cell lumen was combined with δ18O and δ13C records. Combination of the reconstructed winter and summer mass balances allows quantification of the annual mass balance of Silvrettagletscher, for which in-situ measurements date back to 1919. Our reconstruction indicates a substantial increase in glacier mass during the first half of the 19th century and an abrupt termination of this phase after the end of the Little Ice Age. Since the 1860s, negative glacier mass balances have been dominant and mass losses accelerate as anthropogenic warming picks up in the Alps. This abrupt termination of the Little Ice Age cannot be found if the mass balance reconstruction is obtained from the gridded temperature and precipitation fields (1 × 1 km) available for Switzerland since 1763.

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Abrupt termination of the Little Ice Age in the Alps in the mid-19^th century: lessons from a multi-proxy tree-ring reconstruction of glacier mass balance

Lopez-Saez,

Corona,

Slamova

et al. 2023

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“…Therefore, the water vapour at the sampling site comes from the Indian Ocean instead of the westerly transport. Different from our sampling site, several tree‐ring δ 18 O studies in the high‐altitude areas (2,900 m–3,710 m asl) of Karakoram Mountains and the West Himalayas reflect the water vapour comes from westerly transport obviously (Treydte et al ., 2006; Managave et al ., 2020; Zhu et al ., 2021; Huang et al ., 2022; Qin et al ., 2022). Therefore, previous studies of tree‐ring δ 18 O in High Asia and its surrounding area mainly reflect winter precipitation.…”

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Indian summer monsoon and winter Total Solar Irradiance signals in the tree‐ring δ¹⁸O from foothills of High Asia, northern Pakistan

Sinha

et al. 2022

Intl Journal of Climatology

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A tree‐ring stable oxygen isotope (δ18O) chronology was developed for the past 171 years by four Abies pindrow trees growing in southwest foothills of High Asia, northern Pakistan, which is correlated with observed and modelled δ18O of precipitation in Islamabad over the instrumental period. The averaged tree‐ring δ18O chronology is significantly negative correlated with local (r = −.651, p < .001, n = 38) and regional (r = −.664, p < .001, n = 65) summer precipitation variations. Analysis of vertically integrated water vapour flux and surface wind field suggests that the sampling site is located at the northern limit of the Indian summer monsoon (ISM). Our tree‐ring δ18O series is significantly (p < .001, n = 143) negatively correlated with observed Homogenous India rainfall, All Indian rainfall, Core‐Monsoon India rainfall and Northwest India rainfall. This is the first detected ISM signal from tree‐ring δ18O over northern Pakistan. Several ISM‐related paleoclimate proxies, including three stalagmites δ18O series (Sahiya cave, Jhumar cave and Qunf cave) and a tree‐ring δ18O series (Manali), show consistent variability and a correlation coefficient of .566 (p < .001, n = 165) with our tree‐ring δ18O, suggesting that a combination of multiple proxies may be potentially useful to understand the full perspective of ISM before instrumental era. In addition, we found that the satellite‐observed winter Total Solar Irradiance exerts influence on the tree‐ring δ18O variation (r = .643, p < .001, n = 38), which may be linked to runoff of the Indus River and ISM precipitation.

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Minimum temperature during the growing season limits the radial growth of timberline Schrenk spruce (P. schrenkiana)

Qin

Liu

Shang

et al. 2022

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

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Reconstruction of alpine snowfall in southern Kazakhstan based on oxygen isotopes in tree rings

Cited by 8 publications

References 68 publications

Abrupt termination of the Little Ice Age in the Alps in the mid-19^th century: lessons from a multi-proxy tree-ring reconstruction of glacier mass balance

Abrupt termination of the Little Ice Age in the Alps in the mid-19^th century: lessons from a multi-proxy tree-ring reconstruction of glacier mass balance

Indian summer monsoon and winter Total Solar Irradiance signals in the tree‐ring δ¹⁸O from foothills of High Asia, northern Pakistan

Minimum temperature during the growing season limits the radial growth of timberline Schrenk spruce (P. schrenkiana)

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Reconstruction of alpine snowfall in southern Kazakhstan based on oxygen isotopes in tree rings

Cited by 8 publications

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Abrupt termination of the Little Ice Age in the Alps in the mid-19th century: lessons from a multi-proxy tree-ring reconstruction of glacier mass balance

Abrupt termination of the Little Ice Age in the Alps in the mid-19th century: lessons from a multi-proxy tree-ring reconstruction of glacier mass balance

Indian summer monsoon and winter Total Solar Irradiance signals in the tree‐ring δ18O from foothills of High Asia, northern Pakistan

Minimum temperature during the growing season limits the radial growth of timberline Schrenk spruce (P. schrenkiana)

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Abrupt termination of the Little Ice Age in the Alps in the mid-19^th century: lessons from a multi-proxy tree-ring reconstruction of glacier mass balance

Abrupt termination of the Little Ice Age in the Alps in the mid-19^th century: lessons from a multi-proxy tree-ring reconstruction of glacier mass balance

Indian summer monsoon and winter Total Solar Irradiance signals in the tree‐ring δ¹⁸O from foothills of High Asia, northern Pakistan